TORONTO — Helmer Atom Egoyan’s “Ararat” swept the nominations for the Genies Tuesday, the Great White North’s annual awards for its domestic film industry. Pic, which opened the 2002 Toronto Intl.

“Ararat” could become a case study in narrative sprawl for screenwriting classes, but it eludes coherence, gratification or respect as a self-contained movie with serious intentions. Most of the ...