Notre-Dame du Nil

Spoken: French. Subtitles: English.

Rwanda, 1973. ‘Our Lady of the Nile’ is a prestigious Belgian-run Catholic boarding school perched high on a hill, where teenage girls are groomed to be the Rwandan elite. Graduation on the horizon, they share the same dormitory, the same dreams and concerns. But throughout the country as well as within the school, deep-seated antagonisms rumble. Changing these young girls’ lives – and the entire nation – forever. Adapted from the novel Notre-Dame du Nil by Scholastique Mukasonga.