Greetings from the Colony

Born in the colonial time from a Belgian agent and a Rwandan woman, Suzanne is only 4 years old when her father brings her to Europe in 1930 to give her a European education. She is, as people would have put it then, "a mulatto child saved from a negro destiny." Suzanne's father is also the director's grandfather, who discovered only at the age of 27 that she had a mixed race aunt. Twenty years later, she makes this film, in which the family story intersects the bigger history. Suzanne is one among hundreds of children to have been taken away from their homeland in absolute silence. A thousand others were simply abandonned in Africa. In both cases, their treatment was the result of politics based on racial segregation. The unique story of Suzanne echoes that of other children and belongs to a page of history which remains to this day a national taboo.