Notre-Dame du Nil

The film "Notre-Dame du Nil" (2019) is set in Rwanda in the early 1990s at an elite Catholic girls' boarding school, Our Lady of the Nile, where students from both Hutu and Tutsi backgrounds study under European supervision. The school's institution promotes discipline and religious values, but ethnic divisions persist, and hostility escalates as tensions between the Hutu and Tutsi peoples intensify across the country. The breakdown of order within the school mirrors the wider collapse of coexistence in Rwandan society, foreshadowing the genocide against the Tutsi. The film is an adaptation of Scholastique Mukasonga's 2012 novel of the same name and stars Amanda Mugabezaki as Virginia, Clariella Bizimana as Veronica, and Albina Kirenga as Gloriosa.