Birds Are Singing in Kigali

2017

Polish

5.5

♡ 6

Joanna Kos-Krauze Director

Jowita Budnik as Anna Keller

Eliane Umuhire as Claudine Mugambira

Jerzy Gudejko as Jan

Witold Wielinski as Witek

We meet ornithologist Anna in 1994 just as genocide is raging in Rwanda, perpetrated by the majority Hutus against the Tutsis. Anna manages to save the daughter of a colleague whose family has been murdered, and she takes her to Poland. But the woman returns to Rwanda to visit the graves of her loved ones. The director originally worked on the movie with her husband Krzysztof Krauze (My Nikifor – Crystal Globe, KVIFF 2005), but after his death in 2014 she eventually finished this challenging picture alone.

Trees of Peace

2021

English

6.6

♡ 6

83%

Alanna Brown Director

Sallieu Sesay as Commander

Tongayi Chirisa as Francois

Charmaine Bingwa as Jeanette

Ella Cannon as Peyton

Four women from different backgrounds forge an unbreakable sisterhood while trapped and in hiding during the genocide in Rwanda.

Kinyarwanda

2011

English

6.8

♡ 2

100%

Alrick Brown Director

Watta Hezekis as Father Jean Claude

Cassandra Freeman as Lt. Rose

Ibrahim Kasuiya as Shmael's Father

Farida Uwimana as Shmael's Mother

A young Tutsi woman and a young Hutu man fall in love amid chaos; a soldier struggles to foster a greater good while absent from her family; and a priest grapples with his faith in the face of unspeakable horror.

Shooting Dogs

2005

English

7.6

♡ 2

85%

Action

civil war

destruction of a civilization

Michael Caton-Jones Director

Dominique Horwitz as Capitaine Charles Delon

John Hurt as Christopher

Hugh Dancy as Joe Connor

Nicola Walker as Rachel

Two westerners, a priest and a teacher find themselves in the middle of the Rwandan genocide and face a moral dilemna. Do they place themselves in danger and protect the refugees, or escape the country with their lives? Based on a true story.

The Constant Gardener

2005

English

7.3

♡ 61

83%

pharmaceutical industry

Fernando Meirelles Director

Ralph Fiennes as Justin Quayle

Claire Simpson as Maude Donohue

Bill Nighy as Sir Bernard Pellegrin

Rachel Weisz as Tessa Quayle

Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not causing any problems. But after his radical wife Tessa is killed he becomes determined to find out why, thrusting himself into the middle of a very dangerous conspiracy.

Shake Hands with the Devil

2007

English

7.6

♡ 2

50%

Roger Spottiswoode Director

Jean-Hugues Anglade as Bernard Kouchner

Deborah Kara Unger as Emma Baker

Philip Akin as Kofi Annan

Tom McCamus as Major Phil Lancaster

In 1993, Canadian Lieutenant General Roméo Dallaire was sent by the United Nations to Rwanda as commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR). Its mission, to ensure the ceasefire, is underfunded, excessively bureaucratized and made up of military units which come from dozens of countries and which each have a very different program... These are Lt Gen Dallaire's efforts to stop the madness of the Rwandan Genocide, despite the complete indifference of his superiors.

Blood Diamond

2006

English

8.0

♡ 321

64%

smuggling (contraband)

Thriller

Edward Zwick Director

David S. Lee as Cockney Journalist

Leonardo DiCaprio as Danny Archer

Jennifer Connelly as Maddy Bowen

Djimon Hounsou as Solomon Vandy

An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.

Hotel Rwanda

2004

English

8.1

♡ 120

91%

Terry George Director

Joaquin Phoenix as Jack Daglish

Neil McCarthy as Jean Jacques

Jean Reno as Mr. Tillens - Sabena Airlines President

Don Cheadle as Paul Rusesabagina

Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.

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