Mireille Metellus

A Sunday in Kigali

Robert Favreau

Luc Picard, Fatou N'Diaye

In April 1994, the middle-aged Canadian journalist Bernard Valcourt is making a documentary in Kigali about AIDS. He secretly falls in love for the Tutsi waitress of his hotel Gentille, who is younger than him, in a period of violent racial conflicts. When the genocide of the Tutsis by the Hutus in Rwanda begins, Bernard does not succeed in escaping with Gentille to Canada. When the genocide finishes in July 1994, Bernard returns to the chaotic Kigali seeking out Gentille in the middle of destruction and dead bodies.

Fields of Endless Day

Terence Macartney-Filgate

Lili Francks, Winston Sutton

The history of Canada's black population.

Moloch Tropical

Raoul Peck

Zinedine Soualem, Sonia Rolland

In a fortress on a hill in Haiti a democratically elected president prepares himself for a state ceremony. On the day of the festivities the president finds his country in turmoil. The whole nation is in the grips of a riot that has broken out overnight. But nothing should stop the president’s ceremony.

L'Homme sur les quais

Raoul Peck

Jennifer Zubar, Toto Bissainthe

Early 1960s Haiti during 'Papa Doc' Duvalier's dictatorship seen through the eyes of a young girl whose family has suffered heavily.

Le goût des jeunes filles

John L'Ecuyer

Lansana Kourouma, Uly Darly

La forteresse suspendue

Roger Cantin

Matthew Dupuis, Roxanne Gaudette-Loiseau

Just like every other summer, the children of two camp-sites play "war". But, this summer it takes an interesting turn.

L'âge de braise

Jacques Leduc

Annie Girardot, France Castel

Jacques Leduc directed and co-scripted (with Jacques Marcotte) this Canadian-French co-production, a drama about an aging Montreal woman, Caroline (Annie Girardot), in her 60s and contemplating impending death. She destroys old correspondence, cleans her apartment by putting furniture in the street, and looks back on her life (as revealed via flashbacks and a film crew interviewing her daughters). Caroline's brief marriage to an Englishman gave her one daughter, successful businesswoman Rachel (Domini Blythe), and an affair with a rebel in the Congo resulted in her other daughter Myriam (Sheila Rose). Further memories rise to the surface when Caroline joins her long-time friend Maureen (France Castel) for a black-tie reception where their community work in Africa brings them an Order of Canada award.