A Sunday in Kigali Articles

Olivier Gourmet in Congorama Quebec's 2007 Jutra Awards, presented on Sunday, Feb. 18, offered a whole array of surprises. Even though the bilingual box-office smash Bon Cop, Bad Cop and the drama Un dimanche à Kigali / A Sunday in Kigali received the most nominations — 12 apiece — both were completely shut out of the film, acting, directing, and writing categories. Instead, the comedy-drama [...]

2007 Jutra Awards 2007 Jutra Award Winners: Théâtre Maisonneuve de la Place des Arts in Montreal on February 18, 2007 2007 Prix Jutra Nominations ("*" denotes the winner in each category)   Olivier Gourmet, Jean-Pierre Cassel in Congorama   BEST FILM / MEILLEUR FILM Bon Cop, Bad Cop, Kevin Tierney (Park Ex Pictures) * Congorama, Luc Déry — Kim McCraw (micro_scope, Tarantula) Un dimanche à [...]

With 12 nods each, the top nominees for Quebec's Oscars, the Prix Jutra, are Érik Canuel's Bon Cop, Bad Cop (right), an odd couple comedy that became the top-grossing homegrown film ever in Canada (with about Can$13 million, most of it generated in Quebec itself), and Robert Favreau's Un dimanche à Kigali / A Sunday in Kigali (above), the story of a man (Luc Picard) [...]

The nominees for the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television's 2007 Genie Awards — the Canadian Oscars — were announced on Jan. 9. Four of the five best film nominees are Quebec productions. (English-language Canadian films tend to get crushed by the weight of big-budget productions from south of the border.) Of these, Maurice Richard / The Rocket (above), a biopic of the popular Quebecois [...]