Cinema Kingston
January 30th, 2007Cinema Kingston is a monthly film series that endeavors to “bring the best and most challenging of world and Canadian cinema to Kingston.” Here’s a heads-up on their next screening:

Un dimanche àKigali (Sunday in Kigali)
Sunday, 11 February 2007
Cinema Kingston presents a screening of Un dimanche àKigali (Sunday in Kigali), dir. Robert Favreau, Canada, 2006. The screening is at 7:00 P.M. in Etherington Auditorium, 94 Stuart Street. General admission: $8.00 at the door. Season passes available at Novel Idea, Classic Video and Queen’s Film Studies, and on the night of the screening at $40 regular price or $30 for students and seniors.
This eagerly awaited film follows a Québécois journalist in Rwanda who falls in love with a Hutu waitress as violent civil unrest breaks out. “… the tension mounts, culminating in a courageous ending. Powerful.” (Michel Defoy, voir.ca)
In the days leading up to the Rwandan genocide, Bernard meets Gentille, a Rwandan waitress at the Hôtel des Mille Collines. He is a rundown older man, she a stunning young woman and together they strive to keep their love pure. As tensions escalate, they find themselves in inescapable roles: her life is more endangered every day but he is allowed the freedom to leave at any time….

Interested? Check out Cinema Kingston and IMDb for more information.







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