The Good Canadian

Jonathan Durand, a Canadian diplomat in Rwanda during 1994, faces an impossible choice: follow Ottawa's directives or save lives. His radio crackles not only with coded messages but with screams from beyond the embassy walls. Every document he signs becomes either a death warrant or a lifeline. Archival footage intercuts with present-day interviews — survivors remember not the politics, but the man who broke the rules. The film examines not heroism, but the mechanics of decision-making under duress. What does it mean to be 'good' within a system where neutrality equals complicity? The filmmakers draw unsettling parallels to contemporary migration crises, posing difficult questions about the price of bureaucratic order.