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Lia, a Belgian-Rwandan basketball player facing the twilight of her career. Twenty years after fleeing the genocide, she is asked to join the Rwandan national basketball team. This journey stirs buried memories of a painful past: exile, family silences and the pain of a fractured identity. Through her eyes, the film explores confrontation between memory and the present, and a nation scarred by tragedy with a contemporary Rwanda brimming with life and creativity.Read moreLess
Lia, a Belgian-Rwandan basketball player facing the twilight of her career. Twenty years after fleeing the genocide, she is asked to join the Rwandan national basketball team. This journey stirs buried memories of a painful past: exile, family silences and the pain of a fractured identity. Through her eyes, the film explores confrontation between memory and the present, and a nation scarred by tragedy with a contemporary Rwanda brimming with life and creativity.
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Lia, a Belgian-Rwandan basketball player facing the twilight of her career. Twenty years after fleeing the genocide, she is asked to join the Rwandan national basketball team. This journey stirs buried memories of a painful past: exile, family silences and the pain of a fractured identity. Through her eyes, the film explores confrontation between memory and the present, and a nation scarred by tragedy with a contemporary Rwanda brimming with life and creativity.
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Sonia Rolland
Jean-Hugues Anglade
Isabelle KabanoCast
Michel Ange Nzojibwami
Nkota EugeneCast
Jean-Henri CompèreExplore the crew
- Screenplay
- Jonas D'Adesky
- Director
- Jonas D'Adesky
- Screenplay
- Laurie Bost
- Director of Photography
- Benjamin Morel
- Producer
- Aurelien Bodinaux
- Producer
- Joel Karekezi
- Editor
- Antoine Donnet