Greetings from the Colony

2012 • 74 minutes

About this movie

Welcome to Belgium's dark colonial past. A 1920s engagement between a Rwandan woman and a Belgian white colonial bears three children. But soon the man meets a young white woman, marries her and returns to Europe. He abandons his Rwandan wife and two sons but takes his daughter, Suzanne. Breaking the family's long silence, Suzanne takes us into a dark world of easy abuse and Belgium's contentious colonial history.