Film about Rwandan genocide hits Polish cinemas

Birds are Singing in Kigali, by Joanna Kos-Krauze and her late husband Krzysztof Krauze, is vying for a prize at the annual Polish Film Festival in Gdynia on the Polish Baltic coast.

Kos-Krauze said her movie tackles universal issues such as how to live with trauma and mourning.

Birds are Singing in Kigali is the first film ever made involving Rwandan people who experienced genocide.

One of the main roles in the film is played by Eliane Umuhire, who survived Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, when some 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus were slaughtered by Hutu extremists in three months of massacres.

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Source: IAR