Au Rwanda, en 1994. À la suite de la mort du président rwandais Habyarimana, lorsque son avion a été abattu, le pays sombre dans la guerre civile. Très vite, des appels à l'extermination des Tutsis se répandent et sont mis à exécution. Des massacres ont lieu dans tout le pays, visant les Tutsis, mais aussi les Hutus modérés. Paul Rusesabagina, un hôtelier de Kigali, est terrifié. Hutu marié à une Tutsi, il tâche de protéger sa famille. Ne pouvant se résoudre à abandonner des gens à une mort certaine, il décide de transformer son établissement en refuge. Des centaines de personnes affluent, espérant échapper aux tueurs qui les traquent sans pitié…

En 1966, Dian Fossey, une jeune Américaine, obtient l'autorisation d'aller recenser les gorilles dans les montagnes du Zaïre. Avec un pisteur, Sembagare, elle réussit à s'installer à proximité d'un groupe de primates et à s'en faire accepter. Mais une guerre civile déchire le Zaïre, et Dian doit quitter le pays. Elle se réfugie au Rwanda où elle crée, sur les hauts plateaux, le centre de recherche de Karisoke. Là, elle déclare la guerre aux braconniers qui vendent les jeunes gorilles aux zoos et coupent les mains et les têtes des singes pour en faire des souvenirs. Elle s'attire de nombreuses inimitiés, qui mettent sa vie en danger...

Rwanda, 1994. Le film raconte, jour après jour, la vie d'une famille rwandaise. Le mari est hutu, la femme et les deux enfants tutsi. Lors de la mort du président, tous les hommes hutu sont réquisitionnés pour éradiquer la population tutsi. Parmi eux Augustin Muganza, un hutu modéré, et son frère Honoré, animateur de la tristement célèbre Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines.

Après le vol d'une machette sur le marché de Kigali, Munyurangabo et son ami Sangwa quittent la ville pour un voyage durant lequel leur passé va se mêler. Munyurangabo réclame justice pour la mort de ses parents, tués au cours du génocide, Sangwa, quant à lui, souhaite se rendre à la maison qu'il a abandonné il y a des années.

Mountain Gorilla takes us to a remote range of volcanic mountains in Africa, described by those who have been there as ""one of the most beautiful places in the world"", and home to the few hundred remaining mountain gorillas. In spending a day with a gorilla family in the mountain forest, audiences will be captivated by these intelligent and curious animals, as they eat, sleep, play and interact with each other. Although gorillas have been much-maligned in our popular culture, viewers will finally ""meet the legend"" face to face, and learn about their uncertain future.

Along an overgrown rail track south of the Zairean town Kisangani, a UN expedition together with a handful of journalists discover “lost” refugees. They are eighty thousand Hutus from far away Rwanda, the last survivors of three years of hunger and armed persecution that transpired throughout the vast Congo basin. The Hutu-refugees leave the forest, gathering in two gigantic camps. Hundreds of refugees die every day from diseases and malnutrition The Rwandans are promised repatriation with airplanes out of Kisangani. The film traces those refugees into the heart of the rainforest, and the hopeless attempts to help them.. But only four weeks later, the unprotected UN-camps are again attacked by machine-gun fire, deliberately massacred by factions of the rebel army (AFDL) of today’s Democratic Republic Congo. Eighty thousand men, women and children disappear once again back into the jungle. (jedensvet.cz)

A teenager is rescued from war-torn Rwanda and brought to the United States. He Struggles to fit in but has little luck till he meets a has been boxing coach. Together they prepare for the fight of their lives...

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.

Coexist tells the emotional stories of women who survived the Rwandan genocide in 1994. They continue to cope with the loss of their families as the killers who created this trauma return from jail back to the villages where they once lived. Faced with these perpetrators on a daily basis, the victims must decide whether they can forgive them or not. Their decisions are unfathomable to many, and speak to a humanity that has survived the worst violence imaginable.

Kigali, printemps 1994. Alors qu'il tourne un reportage sur le sida au Rwanda, le journaliste québécois Bernard Valcourt est témoin des tensions grandissantes entre les communautés Tutsis et Hutus. Depuis le chic Hôtel des Mille Collines, où il loge, et où travaille Gentille, la serveuse dont il est épris, Valcourt tente d'expliquer aux médias canadiens les causes du conflit imminent. Or, celui-ci éclate avant qu'il n'ait eu l'opportunité d'épouser Gentille afin de la doter de la protection diplomatique. Dans le chaos, les deux amoureux sont bien vite séparés. Après avoir passé plusieurs mois bloqué à la frontière, Valcourt revient dans la capitale, complètement ravagée, dans l'espoir d'y retrouver Gentille. Mais la jeune femme est introuvable.

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.

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.

Le 19 juin 1994, des unités d'élite de l'armée française ont la mission de pénétrer au Rwanda afin "d'ouvrir les portes" aux 2 500 soldats français qui vont suivre. Leur mission, baptisée Opération Turquoise, est de "contribuer de manière impartiale à la sécurité et à la protection des personnes déplacées, des réfugiés et des civils en danger au Rwanda". Au fur et à mesure qu'ils progressent sur le terrain, les soldats découvrent des charniers, et se rendent compte que les massacres de Tutsi continuent dans les collines. Certains soldats commencent alors à se poser des questions sur le véritable sens de leur mission.

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 feature documentary set in Kigali, Rwanda, the epicenter of the genocide that left a million dead two decades earlier. The film follows eccentric retired Dartmouth Professor Emeritus, Andrew Garrod, as he mounts Romeo and Juliet with college students from both Hutu and Tutsi backgrounds. Hopes, expectations, pasts, personalities and cultures collide as opening night approaches.

In Rwanda, Africa, a new era is dawning after a brutal civil war ripped through the country, killing close to two million people and wiping out its most iconic wildlife: the regal lion. Now, 25 years later, the big cats are being reintroduced to the region to reclaim their throne. Follow this magnificent seven, a collection of five females and two males, as they travel thousands of miles from South Africa to Akagera National Park and attempt to figure out their new land, form relationships, and restore the pride of a nation.

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.

Chronicling the search for truth and peace in post-genocide Rwanda. Director Deborah Scranton explores issues of peace, retribution, accountability and justice, ultimately discovering a blueprint for ending the cycle of violence. Examining the personal and political repercussions of the deadly conflict in this east African country.

David Attenborough recounts his very personal experiences with the mountain gorillas of Rwanda. Ever since they were discovered over a century ago, these remarkable creatures have been threatened by loss of habitat, poaching, disease and political instability. But despite all odds their numbers have increased. David tells the extraordinary tale of how conservationists like Dian Fossey have battled to save the mountain gorilla from the brink of extinction.

Sexual violence against women is a very effective weapon in modern warfare: instills fear and spreads the seed of the victorious side, an outrageous method that is useful to exterminate the defeated side by other means. This use of women, both their bodies and their minds, as a battleground, was crucial for international criminal tribunals to begin to judge rape as a crime against humanity.