Movies

HomeMoviesSearchTV SeriesBookmarksView Source
Birds Are Singing in Kigali
Birds Are Singing in Kigali

Birds Are Singing in Kigali

Genres

DramaHistory

OverView

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.

Others

Budget

$1480000

Revenue

$--

Status

Released

Original Language

Polish

Runtime

113 mins

Rating

5.263/10

Release Date

22 September 2017

Country

Poland

Cast

Jowita Budnik

Jowita Budnik

Anna Keller

Eliane Umuhire

Eliane Umuhire

Claudine Mugambira

Witold Wieliński

Witold Wieliński

Witek

Ciza Remy Muhirwa

Ciza Remy Muhirwa

Jean Paul

Herve Kimenyi Rutaremara

Herve Kimenyi Rutaremara

Sebastian

Didacienne Nibagwire

Didacienne Nibagwire

Marie-Christine

Anna Ilczuk

Anna Ilczuk

Katarzyna Falska

Aleksander Mikołajczak

Aleksander Mikołajczak

colonel

Jerzy Gudejko

Jerzy Gudejko

Jan

Maciej Tomaszewski

Maciej Tomaszewski

clerk

Wiesław Cichy

Wiesław Cichy

officer

Bolesław Abart

Bolesław Abart

Horst Keller

Mazimpaka Kennedy

Mazimpaka Kennedy

Bitero

Joel Echallier

Joel Echallier

Wolf

Alicja Smotryś

Alicja Smotryś

nun

Maciej Wojdyła

Maciej Wojdyła

policeman

Przemysław Puchała

Przemysław Puchała

policeman

Krzysztof Bochenek

Krzysztof Bochenek

Bartłomiej Gola

Bartłomiej Gola

Teresa Sawicka

Teresa Sawicka

Krystyna Zmitrowicz

Krystyna Zmitrowicz

Katarzyna Halamus

Katarzyna Halamus

Clarisse Hirwa

Clarisse Hirwa

Claudine Diatta Umutesi

Claudine Diatta Umutesi

Jean Eric Kayishema

Jean Eric Kayishema

Patrick Dusabe

Patrick Dusabe

Dariusz Potocki

Dariusz Potocki

Piotr Tyszko-Chmielowiec

Piotr Tyszko-Chmielowiec

Franciszek Kucharski

Franciszek Kucharski

Andrzej Kaczmarek

Andrzej Kaczmarek

Helena Stasiewicz

Helena Stasiewicz

Bettina Harnischfeger

Bettina Harnischfeger

Rafał Miller

Rafał Miller

Małgorzata Wagner-Rypuła

Małgorzata Wagner-Rypuła

Krzysztof Rypuła

Krzysztof Rypuła

Julian Rypuła

Julian Rypuła

Krzysztof Rypuła jr

Krzysztof Rypuła jr

Antoni Rypuła

Antoni Rypuła

Radosław Jędrak

Radosław Jędrak

Wojciech Czech

Wojciech Czech

Piotr Seredyński

Piotr Seredyński

Miłosz Ułamek

Miłosz Ułamek

Nikola Sakalus

Nikola Sakalus

Hanna Sztwiertnia

Hanna Sztwiertnia

Aleksandra Wasińska

Aleksandra Wasińska

Małgorzata Pietkiewicz

Małgorzata Pietkiewicz

Elżbieta Urbańska

Elżbieta Urbańska

Elżbieta Białowąs

Elżbieta Białowąs

Barbara Krawczyk

Barbara Krawczyk

Bożena Zagórna

Bożena Zagórna

Sebastian Zagórny

Sebastian Zagórny

Piotr Filipiak

Piotr Filipiak

Dariusz Dydacki

Dariusz Dydacki

Robert Dydacki

Robert Dydacki

Ireneusz Dydacki

Ireneusz Dydacki

Similar Movies

7.8

Dogville

May 2003 •English

A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town, she learns that their support has a price.

7.7

Hotel Rwanda

December 2004 •English

Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.

0.0

Aporia

February 2022 •Korean

Aporia tells the story of someone caught in the midst of cultural, religious, ethnic, and national conflict. After fleeing Syria, Haleem hopes to bring his wife and children and settle in Germany. During a layover in South Korea, he is found in possession of a fake passport. Haleem then finds himself struggling in an unfamiliar country, taking illegal and illicit work in the hopes of being reunited with his family…

5.2

Tara Road

May 2005 •English

A grieving Connecticut mother temporarily switches houses with a woman in Dublin, Ireland.

4.3

Another Sky

January 1954 •English

After a puritan youth, a young English woman discovers her sensuality in North-Africa.

7.0

The Constant Gardener

August 2005 •English

Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not causing any problems. But after his radical wife Tessa is killed he becomes determined to find out why, thrusting himself into the middle of a very dangerous conspiracy.

7.2

Savior

June 1998 •English

A hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atrocities during the fighting in Bosnia.

6.1

Original Sin

May 2001 •English

A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp.

7.8

The Furies

November 1960 •Spanish

Five women whose lives revolve around an absent man constantly battle each other in their decaying old mansion. The first Argentinian sound film directed by a woman.

6.7

Princesses

September 2005 •Spanish

Caye is a young prostitute whose family is unaware of her profession. She meets her striking Dominican neighbour Zulema, an illegal immigrant, after she finds her in the bathroom, badly beaten up. They strike up a close friendship unbeknownst to Caye's xenophobic co-workers.

6.0

Lonely Hearts

April 2006 •English

In the late 1940s, a murderous couple known as the 'The Lonely Hearts Killers' kills close to a dozen people. Two detectives try to nab the duo who find their targets via the personals in the paper.

7.6

Blood Diamond

December 2006 •English

An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.

4.3

Aphrodite

January 1982 •French

Harry is a young millionaire on holiday; he takes his yacht to a Greek island, and stays in the mansion of his friend...

7.1

The Man Who Loved Women

April 1977 •French

At Bertrand Morane's burial there are many of the women that the 40-year-old engineer loved. In flashback Bertrand's life and love affairs are told by himself while writing an autobiographical novel.

7.0

God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore

May 1982 •German

After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to Prague, where he joins forces with another expatriate and a sympathetic Czech relief worker. Together with other Jewish refugees, the three make their way to Paris, and, after spending time in a French prison camp, eventually escape to Marseille, from where they hope to sail to a safe port.

6.1

Sounds of Sand

May 2007 •French

On the one hand, there’s the desert eating away at the land. The endless dry season, the lack of water. On the other there’s the threat of war. The village well has run dry. The livestock is dying. Trusting their instinct, most of the villagers leave and head south. Rahne, the only literate one, decides to head east with his three children and Mouna, his wife. A few sheep, some goats, and Chamelle, a dromedary, are their only riches. A tale of exodus, quest, hope and fatality.

5.0

Françoise Durocher, waitress

January 1972 •French

Fictional character played by 24 different actresses, Françoise Durocher is altogether small time waitress, hostess and barmaid. Together, according to the author, they represent the archetypical Québec waitress that everyday waits on us with a smile, despite whatever problems she faces in her personal life. First cinematographic experience of the Brassard-Tremblay tandem, this film full of ironic joy details all the nuances of the waitress living conditions.

7.7

Turtles Can Fly

January 2005 •Kurdish

Turtles Can Fly tells the story of a group of young children near the Turkey-Iraq border. They clean up mines and wait for the Saddam regime to fall.

7.0

Die Anruferin

March 2008 •German

A lonely woman's prank phone call leads to an unexpected friendship with a grieving widow.

6.9

Caramel

August 2007 •Arabic

In a beauty salon in Beirut the lives of five women cross paths. The beauty salon is a colorful and sensual microcosm where they share and entrust their hopes, fears and expectations.