A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali (original French title: "Un dimanche à la piscine à Kigali") is the first novel by Montreal author Gil Courtemanche, originally published in 2000. Set in Kigali, Rwanda, the novel deals with a love affair between an elder Canadian expatriate and a young Rwandan, AIDS and the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. Bernard Valcourt, a documentary filmmaker from Quebec, has been sent to the Rwandan capital Kigali to set up a television station. He falls in love with a Rwandan girl, Gentille, who in reality is an ethnic Hutu,
A Sunday in Kigali ... while hundreds of thousands are being slaughtered that verges on its own form of myopic irresponsibility." Writer for Variety (magazine), Robert Koehler also gave it 2 out of 4 stars and said: "Pic is truly undone by a bizarre structure that constantly cuts between the timeframe before the 100-day massacre and the aftermath." Since its release, the film has been nominated for 42 festivals and awards. A Sunday in Kigali A Sunday in Kigali (original French title: "Un dimanche à Kigali") is a 2006 Canadian feature film set during the Rwandan genocide. Directed by Robert Favreau, it follows the