Best award winning movies with spot-on directing from Rwanda

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with spot-on directing from Rwanda! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with spot-on directing from Rwanda, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Neptune Frost (2022)

In the hilltops of Burundi, a group of escaped coltan miners form an anti-colonialist computer hacker collective. From their camp in an otherworldly e-waste dump, they attempt a takeover of the authoritarian regime exploiting the region's natural resources – and its people. When an intersex runaway and an escaped coltan miner find each other through cosmic forces, their connection sparks glitches within the greater divine circuitry.

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2022-06-03 | Drama / Science Fiction

Cast

Cheryl Isheja, Bertrand Ninteretse

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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    ambient
  2. Ranked #3 for
    oneiric
  3. Ranked #4 for
    minimal character development

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2 Our Lady of the Nile (2020)

Rwanda, 1973. In the prestigious catholic institute 'Notre-Dame du Nil', perched on a hill, young Rwandan girls study to become the elite of the country. In the process of graduating, they share the same dormitory, the same dreams, the same problems of teenage girls. But in every corner of the country as well as in the school there are deep antagonisms that will forever change the destiny of these young girls and the whole country.

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2020-02-05 | Drama

Cast

Amanda Mugabezaki, Clariella Bizimana

Rating

rating icon 6.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    misleading
  2. Ranked #5 for
    redoubtable
  3. Ranked #5 for
    most poignant

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3 Sometimes in April (2005)

Two brothers are divided by marriage and fate during the 100 horrifying days of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

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2005-02-17 | Drama / History

Cast

Idris Elba, Carole Karemera

Rating

rating icon 7.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #126 for
    bludgeoned to death
  2. Ranked #155 for
    proof positive
  3. Ranked #197 for
    innocent man

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4 Munyurangabo (2008)

An orphan of the Rwandan genocide travels from Kigali to the countryside on a quest for justice.

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2008-05-15 | Drama

Cast

Jeff Rutagengwa, Eric Ndorunkundiye

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rating icon 6.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #317 for
    with light moments
  2. Ranked #325 for
    most moving
  3. Ranked #449 for
    didactic

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5 Rising from Ashes (2013)

“Rising from Ashes” is a feature length documentary about the first Rwandan National Cycling Team and their six year journey to the Olympic games in London. It's not about the bike. It's about second chances, how our past doesn't have to define our future, and the impossible triumph of the human spirit over one of the world's most devastating genocides.

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2013-08-02 |

Cast

Forest Whitaker

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rating icon 6.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #4010 for
    mythology extending
  2. Ranked #4632 for
    Survival Movie
  3. Ranked #5080 for
    juxtaposition

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6 The Rwandan Child (1986)

A campaign is launched to prevent peasants from leaving the countryside for the city. The village tries to adapt the advice of the technicians for self-sufficiency.

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1986-01-01 | Drama

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rating icon 0.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #25744 for
    raising eyebrows
  2. Ranked #30447 for
    cult-favorite
  3. Ranked #33178 for
    two thumbs up

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7 The Barefoot Artist (2014)

Lily Yeh is a global artist who is fueled by a belief that art is a human right, and that artists can create a foundation for profound social change. Slight of frame, but large in spirit and vision, the 70-year-old artist was born in China, lives in Philadelphia, and now, as constant traveler, the world is her canvas. Our film explores two sides of Lily's life that are connected parts of the same journey: her international ventures helping to heal weakened spirits in communities around the world and a personal journey within, to repair her own fractured family.

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2014-12-05 | Documentary

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rating icon 5.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #5286 for
    self-improvement
  2. Ranked #6628 for
    travelogue
  3. Ranked #10889 for
    for soul searching

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