Året er 1999, og der er borgerkrig i Sierra Leone. Fiskeren Solomon's drømme bliver knuste, da han bliver kidnappet og tvunget væk fra kone og barn for at arbejde i en diamantmine, der finansierer borgerkrigen.
I 1994 eksploderer borgerkrigen i Rwanda. Hutu-militserne dræber næsten en million tutsier, mens FN styrkerne må se magtesløse til, for ordren fra hovedkvarteret i New York lyder ubøjeligt på at bevare freden, ikke at skabe den! Men ikke kun FN svigter. Hele den magtfulde vestlige verden vender ryggen til folkemordet. Én mand har modet til at reagere. Som bestyrer af et luksushotel åbner hutuen Paul dørene for alle desperate, mens ondskaben går amok lige udenfor. Som en afrikansk Schindler, alene mod overmagten og med livet som indsats, trygler, bestikker og truer han i alle lejre for at redde sin familie og de alt for mange flygtninge fra døden. Paul vælger ikke side mellem hutuer og tutsier. Han er ikke nogen helt – han er et menneske.
Justin Quayle, ansat ved den britiske høj-kommision i Nairobi, finder ud af, at hans aktivist-kone er blevet myrdet et afsides sted i Kenya. Endvidere tyder alt på, at hun blev myrdet af sin rejseledsager, og at mordet var af seksuel karakter. Justin sætter sig for at opklare mordet og eliminere utroskabs-rygterne - men sagen er langt mere kompliceret og omfattende, end han kunne have drømt om.
Two westerners, a priest and a teacher find themselves in the middle of the Rwandan genocide and face a moral dilemna. Do they place themselves in danger and protect the refugees, or escape the country with their lives? Based on a true story.
In 1993, Canadian Lieutenant General Roméo Dallaire was sent by the United Nations to Rwanda as commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR). Its mission, to ensure the ceasefire, is underfunded, excessively bureaucratized and made up of military units which come from dozens of countries and which each have a very different program... These are Lt Gen Dallaire's efforts to stop the madness of the Rwandan Genocide, despite the complete indifference of his superiors.
We meet ornithologist Anna in 1994 just as genocide is raging in Rwanda, perpetrated by the majority Hutus against the Tutsis. Anna manages to save the daughter of a colleague whose family has been murdered, and she takes her to Poland. But the woman returns to Rwanda to visit the graves of her loved ones. The director originally worked on the movie with her husband Krzysztof Krauze (My Nikifor – Crystal Globe, KVIFF 2005), but after his death in 2014 she eventually finished this challenging picture alone.
A documentary that examines whether a charity organized by Pat Robertson to aid Rwandan genocide refugees was a front for diamond mining.
A young Tutsi woman and a young Hutu man fall in love amid chaos; a soldier struggles to foster a greater good while absent from her family; and a priest grapples with his faith in the face of unspeakable horror.
In April 1994, the middle-aged Canadian journalist Bernard Valcourt is making a documentary in Kigali about AIDS. He secretly falls in love for the Tutsi waitress of his hotel Gentille, who is younger than him, in a period of violent racial conflicts. When the genocide of the Tutsis by the Hutus in Rwanda begins, Bernard does not succeed in escaping with Gentille to Canada. When the genocide finishes in July 1994, Bernard returns to the chaotic Kigali seeking out Gentille in the middle of destruction and dead bodies.
Following the story of a genocide survivor as well as son of a killer, the film revolves around the meaning of an old coat and its symbolic value for the young boy’s dramatic past. (African Film Festival, New York)
MAMA RWANDA is the story of two women mixing the wit of motherhood with the spirit of entrepreneurship to overcome extreme poverty. Drocella, a village wife, and Christine, a city widow, represent a new generation of women business-owners transforming post-genocide Rwanda into one of the top ten fastest growing economies in the world. A modern tale of the work/life balancing act, MAMA RWANDA illuminates the remarkable lives of two working mothers in the developing world.
The story of Canadian Lt. Gen. Roméo Dallaire and his controversial command of the United Nations mission to Rwanda during the 1994 genocide. The documentary was inspired by the book Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda which was published in 2003.
A documentary about how Rwandans use personal and family photographs to remember and commemorate the loved ones they lost in the 1994 genocide.
The oral writer of the April 3 Uprising and a Rwandan who came to Korea to study face each other, have a conversation, and then go on a trip hand in hand. The two people, from different generations, nationalities, and occupations, have something in common: they are the daughters of massacre survivors.
The story is afterimage of the genocide that happened in Rwanda almost 30 years ago. We’ve assembled an incredible team of individuals, each with an immense sensitivity to the subject matter, who are helping us bring this story to life both in its literary and visual dimension. This film is an exploration of the search for hope and humanistic values in the face of unimaginable adversity.
A powerful documentary about five women whose lives have been irrevocably altered by the Rwandan genocide. With the country left nearly 70% female in the wake of the massacres, "God Sleeps In Rwanda" is a lucid portrait of the much larger change affected by women in the East African country.
Their words had never been heard before. Co-directed by French-Rwandan musician and author Gaël Faye and director Michael Sztanke, this movie records with sensitivity and for the first time the testimonies of Prisca, Marie-Jeanne and Concessa about their lives during the genocide and after. The three Tutsi women tell the camera about their daily lives during the genocide and in the refugee camps of Murambi and Nyarushishi, where they lived a nightmare under the guard of the French soldiers of the Opération Turquoise who, under a UN mandate, where supposed to protect them. While the French army denies any rape accusation, the three women filed complaints with the French justice system in 2004 and 2012. The investigation is now at a standstill.
Childhood sweethearts Beatrice and Purudenci plan to wed until Beatrice becomes hunted by Purudenci's family during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.