Greeting from the Colony
General Information
- Original Title
- Bons Baisers de la Colonie
- Author/Creator
- Borgers, Nathalie, director.
- Language
- Kinyarwanda.
- Subtitles
- English
- Published
- Belgium, 2011.
- Physical Description
- DVD-ROM (84 min.)
- Digital ver. identifier
- HU_OSA_00004929
Contents/Summary
- Summary
- Belgium’s dark colonial past comes to light in Greetings from the Colony, a story of exclusion and sadness that begins with a Rwandan woman who’s betrothed to a Belgian territorial agent while he serves a term in the early 1920s in Rwanda. Together they have three children, but at the end of his term the agent meets a young Belgian woman, marries her and returns to Belgium. Abandoning his Rwandan wife and two sons he chooses to bring only his daughter Suzanne, believing he can give her a better life than what she faces in Rwanda. Decades later the agent’s granddaughter, filmmaker Nathalie Borgers, breaks the long family silence in this revealing documentary that tells the real story of what Suzanne faced growing up in a family of denial and a country with a contentious colonial history.
Subjects
- Genre
- Documentary films
Bibliographic Information
- Title Translation
- Greeting from the Colony
- Note
- Verzio Film Festival Submission
- Library Special Collection
- Verzio Film Festival Submission
Holdings
| Item Type | Current Location | Call Number | Status | Shelving Location | Public Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DVD-ROM | OSA Film Library | FL Record 3297 | Available | - | - |
| Digital film | OSA Film Library | FL Record 3297 (HU_OSA_00004929.mp4) | Available | Access Copy, MP4 format |