Birds Are Singing in Kigali

Birds Are Singing in Kigali

113 mins | Drama | Sept. 22, 2017

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.

Birds Are Singing in Kigali

113 mins | Drama | Sept. 22, 2017

Birds Are Singing in Kigali
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.
IMDb rating 5.5
Producers TVP, Narodowe Centrum Kultury, Odra Film, KOSFILM Joanna Kos-Krauze, Studio A
Original title Ptaki śpiewają w Kigali
Directors Joanna Kos-Krauze, Krzysztof Krauze
Writers Joanna Kos-Krauze, Krzysztof Krauze

Cast

Jowita Budnik

as Anna

Eliane Umuhire

as Claudine

Ciza Remy Muhirwa

as Jean Paul

Anna Ilczuk

as Falska

Aleksander Mikołajczak

as Pułkownik