Birds Are Singing in Kigali
Directed by Joanna Kos-Krauze, Krzysztof Krauze
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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
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Jowita BudnikAnna Keller
Eliane UmuhireClaudine Mugambira
Witold WielińskiWitek
Anna IlczukKatarzyna Falska
Aleksander Mikołajczakcolonel
Jerzy Gudejko
Maciej Tomaszewskiclerk
Wiesław Cichyofficer
Bolesław AbartHorst KellerExplore the crew
- Director
- Joanna Kos-Krauze
- Director
- Krzysztof Krauze
- Director of Photography
- Krzysztof Ptak
- Director of Photography
- Józefina Gocman-Dicks
- Director of Photography
- Wojciech Staroń
- Editor
- Katarzyna Leśniak
- Producer
- Joanna Kos-Krauze
- Original Music Composer
- Paweł Szymański
- Screenplay
- Joanna Kos-Krauze
- Screenplay
- Krzysztof Krauze