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About the Film

Rwanda, 1973. At Our Lady of the Nile, a prestigious Catholic boarding school perched on a hill, young girls are trained to become the Rwandan elite. They share the same dormitories, dreams, and teenage concerns. But both within the school and without, a deep-seated antagonism is rumbling, about to change these young girls’ lives—and the entire country—forever.
About Atiq Rahimi

Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga, the novel upon which the film was based, is available courtesy of Archipelago.

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