Le jour où Dieu est parti en voyage

Philippe Van Leeuw

IndieLisboa 2010 •

France, Belgium, Fiction, 100′

Set in Rwanda in the spring of 1994, at the outbreak of the genocide. Jacqueline, a young Tutsi woman, is a maid in a Belgian family. When she finds her children brutally murdered by the Hutus, she runs away and hides in the woods. There, she meets a man who has also escaped from the slaughter. Together, they will try to survive with the fear of being discovered at any moment. Terror and madness wait for them at every turn. An immensely personal and psychological journey with gripping performance by lead actress Ruth Nirere, that will hunt you long after the viewing.