Trees of Peace
Trees of Peace is a 2022 film written and directed by Alanna Brown in her directorial debut. It is starring Eliane Umuhire, Charmaine Bingwa, Bola Koleosho and Ella Cannon as four women (two Tutsi, one a Hutu moderate, and one American volunteer) who hide in a hole underneath a house for 81 days to survive the 1994 Rwandan genocide. It has a 98 minute runtime and is an English language film. The film was initially funded through a 2017 Kickstarter campaign which met its goal of $65,000 from 350 backers. Production ended in November 2019. A year after the film premiered at the 2021 Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Netflix acquired the global rights to the film in March 2022. The film's trailer was released on May 13, and the film premiered on June 10. Netflix acquired the rights for the film. The Hindu described it as a moving survival story. References

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Kickstarter-funded films
2022 films
Films about the Rwandan genocide
English-language Netflix original films
2022 drama films
American drama films