Synopsis

Nominated for 12 Genies, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Screenplay, this scorching drama is based on Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire’s best-selling autobiography. Caught between a detached global bureaucracy and the ravages of a country consuming itself, Dallaire struggled to bring the world’s attention to the unfolding genocide of the 1994 Rwandan civil war. Against impossible odds, he made a difference — but for him it was never enough. Roy Dupuis (Genie-winner for The Rocket and Memories Affectives) deftly embodies Dallaire’s haunting journey with stirring depth. This crucial, powerfully moving film is a career-high for director Roger Spottiswoode (Tomorrow Never Dies).

-Elan Mastai

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