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L.R.S organised a Movie night (Shooting Dogs) followed by a Legal iscussion on Thursday 28th January. According to Wikipedia: 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 Claire-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. The setting of the film is the Ecole Technique Officielle (ETO) in Kigali , Rwanda in 1994, during the Rwandan Genocide . Hurt plays a Catholic priest (loosely based on Vjekoslav Ćurić [1] ) and Dancy an English teacher, both Westerners, 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 produc