It is a very interesting thing for every immigrant, that question of where your heart is and what is linking you to a place, especially one that isn’… - Anisia Uzeyman

Cecile Kayiregawa, who plays [the elder nun], is a renowned singer in Rwanda and for anyone who knows that place, [what] it was like to have her, to be able to work with her and to capture her in this film — she’s really revered, it was like meeting a queen.

It comes from a desire to speak from Rwanda, for Rwanda and also for the world so that everybody is able to identify themselves in this part of the world that you are not usually invited to enter. On some level, we are all the same.

This is a film we made very independently by ourselves and to be able to see it travel like this and be seen, has been beautiful.