Greetings from the Colony

Greetings from the Colony

74 mins | Documentary | Oct. 4, 2011

Born in the colonial time from a Belgian agent and a Rwandan woman, Suzanne is only 4 years old when her father brings her to Europe in 1930 to give her a European education. Suzanne’s father is also the director’s grandfather, who discovered only at the age of 27 that she had a mixed race aunt. Twenty years later, she makes this film, in which the family story intersects the bigger history.

Greetings from the Colony

74 mins | Documentary | Oct. 4, 2011

Greetings from the Colony
Born in the colonial time from a Belgian agent and a Rwandan woman, Suzanne is only 4 years old when her father brings her to Europe in 1930 to give her a European education. Suzanne’s father is also the director’s grandfather, who discovered only at the age of 27 that she had a mixed race aunt. Twenty years later, she makes this film, in which the family story intersects the bigger history.
Producers
Original title Bons baisers de la Colonie
Directors Nathalie Borgers
Writers Nathalie Borgers

Cast