Birds Are Singing in Kigali (2017)
Overview
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.
Production Companies
Additional Info
| Budget | $1,480,000.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | pl |
| Popularity | 1.736 |
Directed By
Joanna Kos-Krauze
Krzysztof Krauze
Crew
Krzysztof Krauze
Elżbieta Benkowska
Józefina Gocman-Dicks
Claudine Murenzi
Omar Mouktar Sibomana
Joanna Kos-Krauze
Jerzy Rudziński
Adam Bagnowski
Hope Azeda
Wojciech Staroń
Michał Stajniak
Angela Shyaka
Bartosz Świniarski
Agnieszka Zawadowska
Abdoulhamani Rwamudanga
Michał Chackiel Kos
Marek Modzelewski
Maja Napieracz
Agnieszka Echallier
Maja Obelnicka
Rafał Bubnicki
Jean Baptiste Ntezimana
Andrzej Kowalewski
Jakub Bossowski
Didacienne Nibagwire
Alicja Smotryś
Maciej Pakuła
Krzysztof Adamus
Aneta Kielak
Jean de Dieu Ngirabaganwa
Nicole Mukimbili
Beata Shyaka
Aleksandra Bielska
Joel Echallier
Robert Henkelman
Zoriana Kozii
Radosław Ochnio
Marek Cieślik
Aleksandra Bielska
Claudine Murenzi
Paweł Szymański
Joel Echallier
Joanna Bochenska
Dariusz Skrzypek
Agnieszka Zawadowska
Ewa Łowżył
Miłosz Bielski
Marta Andrzejuk
Mirosław Nasławski
Miłosz Bogić
Małgorzata Długosz
Katarzyna Kuriata
Andrzej Białas
Joanna Kos-Krauze
Joanna Kos-Krauze
Krzysztof Ptak
Wojciech Staroń
Krzysztof Krauze
Katarzyna Leśniak
Józefina Gocman-Dicks
Jacek Wiśniewski
TOP CAST
Jowita Budnik
Anna Keller
Eliane Umuhire
Claudine Mugambira
Witold Wieliński
Witek
Ciza Remy Muhirwa
Jean Paul
Herve Kimenyi Rutaremara
Sebastian
Didacienne Nibagwire
Marie-Christine
Anna Ilczuk
Katarzyna Falska
Aleksander Mikołajczak
colonel
Jerzy Gudejko
Jan
Maciej Tomaszewski
clerk
Wiesław Cichy
officer
Bolesław Abart
Horst Keller
Mazimpaka Kennedy
Bitero
Joel Echallier
Wolf
Alicja Smotryś
nun
Maciej Wojdyła
policeman
Przemysław Puchała
policeman
Similar Movies
Hotel Rwanda
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.
Princesses
Caye is a young prostitute whose family is unaware of her profession. She meets her striking Dominican neighbour Zulema, an illegal immigrant, after she finds her in the bathroom, badly beaten up. They strike up a close friendship unbeknownst to Caye's xenophobic co-workers.
Lonely Hearts
In the late 1940s, a murderous couple known as the 'The Lonely Hearts Killers' kills close to a dozen people. Two detectives try to nab the duo who find their targets via the personals in the paper.
Blood Diamond
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.
The Man Who Loved Women
At Bertrand Morane's burial there are many of the women that the 40-year-old engineer loved. In flashback Bertrand's life and love affairs are told by himself while writing an autobiographical novel.
Ingrid Goes West
Ingrid becomes obsessed with a social network star named Taylor Sloane who seemingly has a perfect life. But when Ingrid decides to drop everything and move west to be Taylor's friend, her behaviour turns unsettling and dangerous.
Birdman of Alcatraz
After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stroud's life gains new meaning when he happens upon a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard and nurses it back to health. Despite having only a third grade education, Stroud goes on to become a renowned ornithologist and achieves a greater sense of freedom and purpose behind bars than most people find in the outside world.
Summer in Berlin
When you read the title ‘Summer on the Balcony’ you probably think it will be a light Berlin summer comedy but it’s not. This film is an intimate study of two women friends who come to each other because of troubles with everyday life and with men and thus try to enjoy a life based on their ideas.
The Constant Gardener
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.
Aphrodite
Harry is a young millionaire on holiday; he takes his yacht to a Greek island, and stays in the mansion of his friend...
Savior
A hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atrocities during the fighting in Bosnia.
Original Sin
A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp.
Tara Road
A grieving Connecticut mother temporarily switches houses with a woman in Dublin, Ireland.
Sounds of Sand
On the one hand, there’s the desert eating away at the land. The endless dry season, the lack of water. On the other there’s the threat of war. The village well has run dry. The livestock is dying. Trusting their instinct, most of the villagers leave and head south. Rahne, the only literate one, decides to head east with his three children and Mouna, his wife. A few sheep, some goats, and Chamelle, a dromedary, are their only riches. A tale of exodus, quest, hope and fatality.
Guillermo on the Roof
While Guillermo tries to fix his romantic life making a film about it, he will discover another reality through Samir, a Syrian refugee, who will make him think that all his issues are superficial.
God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore
After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to Prague, where he joins forces with another expatriate and a sympathetic Czech relief worker. Together with other Jewish refugees, the three make their way to Paris, and, after spending time in a French prison camp, eventually escape to Marseille, from where they hope to sail to a safe port.
Mare Nostrum
On a Mediterranean shore, a Syrian father's decision to give his daughter a better life puts her in danger of losing it.
Malena
During WWII, a teenage boy discovering himself becomes love-stricken by Malèna, a sensual woman living in a small, narrow-minded Italian town.
Turtles Can Fly
Turtles Can Fly tells the story of a group of young children near the Turkey-Iraq border. They clean up mines and wait for the Saddam regime to fall.
Tears of the Sun
Navy SEAL Lieutenant A.K. Waters and his elite squadron of tactical specialists are forced to choose between their duty and their humanity, between following orders by ignoring the conflict that surrounds them, or finding the courage to follow their conscience and protect a group of innocent refugees. When the democratic government of Nigeria collapses and the country is taken over by a ruthless military dictator, Waters, a fiercely loyal and hardened veteran is dispatched on a routine mission to retrieve a Doctors Without Borders physician.