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Birds Are Singing In Kigali

Dir: Joanna Kos-Krauze, Krzysztof Krauze
Cast: Jowita Budnik, Eliane Umuhire, Witold Wieliński
07 Mar, 18:00
BFI Southbank
Year of Production: 2017
Country: Poland

Anna (Jowita Budnik), a Polish ornithologist flees the 1994 Rwandan genocide. She saves Claudine (Eliane Umuhire), a Tutsi woman, from certain death and they try to make a life together in Poland. After the atrocities they both went through, life in the West proves hard to come to terms with. Eventually they journey back to Rwanda to face the lives they left behind. Birds Are Singing In Kigali has won many accolades, including the Silver Lion for Best Feature Film at the Polish Film Festival.

Screening will be followed by Q&A with Joanna Kos-Krauze.

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