Westfield Public Library (Ethel Everhard Memorial)

Beyond the gates, IFC Films ; Adirondack Pictures presents a BBC Films and UK Film Council production in association with Invicta Capital and Filmstifung NRW a UK/German co-production a CrossDay/Egoli Tossell production in association with BBC Films ; produced by David Belton, Pippa Cross, Jens Meurer ; story by Richard Alwyn and David Belton ; screenplay by David Wolstencroft ; directed by Michael Caton-Jones

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MPAA rating: R; for strong violence, disturbing images, and language

Beyond the gates

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IFC Films ; Adirondack Pictures presents a BBC Films and UK Film Council production in association with Invicta Capital and Filmstifung NRW a UK/German co-production a CrossDay/Egoli Tossell production in association with BBC Films ; produced by David Belton, Pippa Cross, Jens Meurer ; story by Richard Alwyn and David Belton ; screenplay by David Wolstencroft ; directed by Michael Caton-Jones

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In April 1994 the airplane of the Hutu President of Rwanda crashes and the Hutu militias slaughter the Tutsi population. In the Ecole Technique Officielle, Christopher, a Catholic priest and Joe Connor, an idealistic English teacher give sanctuary to twenty-five hundred Rwandans survivors in the school, which is under the protection of the UN Belgian force and under siege from the Hutu militia. When the Tutsi refugees are abandoned by the UN, they are murdered by the extremist militia

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