EUROPA «Based on a True Story»
Regie: Kivu Ruhorahoza UK/Kenya/Switzerland Feature Fiction color Language: English Production Status: in post production
Writer/Director: Kivu Ruhorahoza Cast: Oris Erhuero, Lisa Moorish & Matt Ray Brown Producers: Kivu Ruhorahoza & Antonio Ribeiro Co-producers: Simone “Soleil” Späni & Rhea Plangg Executive Producer: Ellie Higgins Country: Rwanda | UK | Switzerland Year: 2019 Status: In Post-production Selections: Atelier de l`Atlas 2018, Festival International du Film de Marrakech Production Companies: Moon Road Films (UK), Cocoon Productions (Switzerland), POV (Rwanda).
Against all odds,
an African filmmaker decides to make a film in the UK. In that film, Simon, a
mysterious Nigerian man, returns to London one year after his sudden death.
Simon wants to make amends with his former lover who felt betrayed when he
killed himself with no explanation. But, inevitably, the realities of British
and European politics come back to haunt the lovers and to disrupt the African
filmmaker in his project.
Writer/Director Biography
Kivu
Ruhorahoza is a Rwandan award-winning filmmaker. Kivu’s work has been
officially screened at top international A-List festivals including Sundance,TriBeCa, Sydney, Rotterdam, Warsaw, Melbourne,Rio and renowned museums
and venues such as the Tate Modern (as part of Olafur
Eliasson's Little Sun project), the MoMA, the BFI
Southbank. Kivu Ruhorahoza's films include the features Things of the
Aimless Wanderer (official Sundance 2015 selection), Grey Matter (official
TriBeCa 2011 selection in Competition) and numerous award-winning short films
both as a director and producer for other filmmakers.
