Our Lady of the Nile (film)
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| French | Notre-Dame du Nil |
| Directed by | Atiq Rahimi |
| Written by | Atiq Rahimi Ramata-Toulaye Sy |
| Based on | Our Lady of the Nile (Notre-Dame du Nil) by Scholastique Mukasonga |
| Produced by | Charlotte Casiraghi Marie Legrand Rani Massalha Dimitri Rassam |
| Starring | Amanda Mugabezaki Albina Kirenga Malaika Uwamahoro |
| Cinematography | Thierry Arbogast |
| Edited by | Hervé de Luze |
Production companies | Les Films du Tambour Chapter 2 France 2 Cinéma Swoon Productions Belga Productions |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
| Countries | France Belgium Rwanda Monaco |
| Languages | French, Kinyarwanda |
Our Lady of the Nile is a 2019 French-language film directed and co-written by Atiq Rahimi. An adaptation of the 2012 novel Our Lady of the Nile by Rwandan writer Scholastique Mukasonga, the film is set in Rwanda in 1994, amid the beginning of the tensions between the Hutu and Tutsi peoples that would eventually culminate in the genocide against the Tutsi.