Belgian-Rwandan filmmaker Jonas d’Adesky (“Twa Timoun”) brings his latest feature, “Kwibuka, Remember,” to the Red Sea Film Festival , a drama inspired by questions of identity and the long-term impact of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide. The film follows Lia, a Belgian-Rwandan professional basketball player raised in Europe, who returns to Rwanda to play for the national team and finds herself confronting a family history she never fully understood.

D’Adesky says the project grew from his own experience navigating two cultures. “I wanted to talk about this feeling of living in one place but being linked to a second country, this desire people have to reconnect, to know, and understand.” He adds that portraying Rwanda beyond its most familiar narrative was equally important. “Rwanda often has t

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