Georges Kamanayo is a Belgian film director.
Georges Kamanayo was born in Rwanda in 1947, the ‘forbidden fruit’ of the relationship between a black Rwandan woman and a white Belgian colonist. His father was a wealthy industrialist, the owner of tin mines, who was married and with a son. His mother was a poor woman, who had no place to go with her mixed-race child. He was not accepted by the black community and a place in his father’s big house was out of the question. Little Kazungu (‘de white one,’ as he was nicknamed) attended a Catholic boarding school in the neighbouring Belgian Congo and, at the age of 14, was taken to Belgium to start a new life with a foreign family, where he was given the French name of Georges. In this film, the grown-up boy, now a cameraman and filmmaker, follows the trail back to his homeland. He finds his mother, who has survived the conflict between the Hutus and Tutsis and is still living in Rwanda. A few years later, his search for the past is completed, when Georges also meets his old father, who is now living in the south of France. KAZUNGU, LE MÉTIS is not only the story of a prodigal son's search for his roots and identity, but it also the story of the great political and social changes that have taken place in Africa since the 1950s.
