France – 2009 – 94 min – Fiction – Français, Kinyarwanda, S.-T.F.

REAL / DIR : Philippe van Leeuw
SCRIPT : Philippe van Leeuw
PROD : Patrick Quinet, Toussaint Tiendrebeogo
CO-PROD: Tomas Leyers, Arlette Zylberberg
DIR PHOTO: Marc Koninckx A.F.C.
CONCEPT PROD: Kathy Lebrun
CONCEPTION COSTUMES: Laurence Maréchal
SON: Paul Heymans
MONT/ED: Andrée Davanture
MONT SON / SOUND ED: Paul Heymans
CAST /AVEC : Ruth Nirere (alias Sh anel) et Af azali Dewaele

Kigali, Rwanda, April 1994. During the first days of the genocide, Westerners escape the country. Before being evacuated, a Belgian family finds a hiding place for Jacqueline, their young nanny, in the attic. Despite the horror taking place outside, Jacqueline leaves her hideout to find her way back to her village and her children, only to find their lifeless bodies among the dead. Cast out from her home and the village, hunted down like an animal, she seeks refuge in the forest. There, she meets and saves a wounded man who was about to die. She is truly shocked and lost all hopes. Now, all she can think of is death. The film, which is not an attempt at reconstructing the genocide, is inspired by a true story. Philippe Van Leeuw focuses on the question of survival and tries to transmit the horror of the genocide without showing atrocious pictures.

SÉLECTION OFFICIELLE TORONTO, SAN SEBASTIAN , NAMUR ET CALCUTTA