Carole Karemera

Carole Umulinga Karemera (born 1975) is a Belgian-born Rwandan actress, saxophone player, theater director, festivals producer and culture policy expert.

Biography She was born in 1975 in Brussels, the daughter of Rwandan exiles. As a child, Carole Karemera excelled at mathematics and dreamed of opening a bakery. Carole Karemera studied at the Royal Conservatory of Theater and Music in Belgium. In 1994, her father, a journalist, returned to Belgium as a result of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.

In 2005, Carole Karemera played the main role alongside Idris Elba in Raoul Peck's film Sometimes in April, about the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. The same year, she decided to settle in Kigali.

In 2007, Carole Karemera also starred as Beatrice in the 2007 film Juju Factory. She received the Best Actress award at the Festival Cinema Africano in Italy. She directed the play "Murs-murs", about the transmission of violence between women. She starred in Peter Brook's 2016 play Battlefield, based on The Mahabharata. In 2018, she received an award at the Les Journées théâtrales de Carthage, honoring her work in the theatre in Rwanda and Africa.

Filmography 2005: Sometimes in April as Jeanne 2006: Sounds of Sand as Mouna 2007: Juju Factory as Béatrice