Shooting Dogs

Shooting Dogs, released in the United States as Beyond the Gates, is a 2005 film, directed by Michael Caton-Jones and starring John Hurt, Hugh Dancy and Clare-Hope Ashitey. It is based on the experiences of BBC news producer David Belton, who worked in Rwanda during the Rwandan Genocide. Belton is the film's co-writer and one of its producers.

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The setting of the film is the École Technique Officielle (ETO) in Kigali, Rwanda, in 1994, during the Rwandan Genocide. Hurt plays a Catholic priest (loosely based on Vjekoslav Ćurić) and Dancy an English teacher, both Europeans, who are caught up in the events of the genocide.

Unlike Hotel Rwanda, which was filmed in South Africa using South African actors, the film was shot in the original location of the scenes it portrays. Also, many survivors of the massacre were employed as part of the production crew and minor acting roles.

The film's title refers to the actions of UN soldiers in shooting at the stray dogs that scavenged the bodies of dead. Since the UN soldiers were not allowed to shoot at the Hutu extremists who had caused the deaths in the first place, the shooting of dogs is symbolic of the madness of the situation that the film attempts to capture.

Cast (credited)

John Hurt as Father Christopher

Hugh Dancy as Joe Connor

Dominique Horwitz as Capitaine Charles Delon

Louis Mahoney as Sibomana

Nicola Walker as Rachel

Steve Toussaint as Roland

David Gyasi as François

Susan Nalwoga as Edda

Victor Power as Julius

Jack Pierce as Mark

Musa Kasonka Jr. as Boniface

Kizito Ssentamu Kayiira as Pierre

Clare-Hope Ashitey as Marie

Crew

Director – Michael Caton-Jones

Writers – David Wolstencroft (screenplay), Richard Alwyn (story), David Belton (story)

Original Music – Dario Marianelli

Cinematography – Ivan Strasburg

Editing – Christian Lonk

Casting – Anja Dihrberg, Karen Lindsay-Stewart

Production Design – Bertram Strauß

Art Direction – Astrid Sieben

Set Decoration – Dagmar Wessel

Costume Design – Dinah Collin

Awards

1 win Heartland Film Festival 2006 Grand Prize for Dramatic Feature