The Last Just Man

Awards (click to collapse)

Columbus International Film and Animation Film Festival, USA (2002) – Winner: Silver Chris Award: The Humanities

DoubleTake Documentary Film Festival, USA (2002) – Winner: Audience Award

Gemini Awards, Canada (2002) – Winner: Best Direction; Best Writing; Best History Documentary Program

Hamptons International Film Festival, USA (2002) – Winner: Audience Award: Best Documentary Film/Video

Newport International Film Festival, Rhode Island, USA (2002) – Winner: Humanitarian Cinema Award

Prague One World Film Festival, Czech Republic (2003) – Winner: Audience Award; Special Jury Award

Cologne Conference, Germany (2003) – Winner: Best Non-Fiction Program

Feature

International

Award Winning Encounters Audience Award

Year(s) Shown

2003

Director(s):

Steven Silver

Country:

Canada

Year:

2001

Duration:

70 min

Language(s):

English | French

Format(s):

Video

The massacre of 800,000 Rwandans in just 100 days was the worst instance of genocide since World War 2. Yet the world stood by and did nothing. This shameful episode is narrated through the eyes of Canadian General Romeo Dallaire, head of a UN mission sent to enforce a peace deal between the Tutsi rebel movement and the Hutu government. Dallaire’s frantic efforts to persuade the UN of impending disaster fall on deaf ears: first, he is told not to intervene, then ordered out of the country. Dallaire goes it alone, but by then it is already too late. A devastating account of the failure of one man’s heroism, and a wake-up call the world has yet to heed.

Courtesy of Barna-Alper Productions Inc.

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