Sometimes in April(2005)

This film about the Rwandan Genocide in 1994. It follows two timelines and the plot goes back and forth between the two.

Pooper corresponding to the 1994 timeline:
The massacre, which has extended over the course of 100 days (between April and July) and has cost the lives of 800,000 people (although extra-official numbers claimed it surpassed the million victims), seems to slow down and eventually stop when the Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), after a drawn-out struggle with the dominating Hutus, gets the upper hand and manages to drive the Hutus off power, causing them to flee the country en masse into exile. Augustin (Idris Elba), who had been able to take refuge at the Hotel Mille-Collines -along with over a thousand other people-, is able to leave and reaches the ruins of the Catholic school where his daughter Anne-Marie (Michelle Rugema) was a student. To his horror and anguish, he finds some women tending to corpses at the room where the students were killed and breaks down crying when he is confirmed that Anne-Marie didn’t survive.

Pooper corresponding to the 2004 timeline:
After a lot of self-doubt and anger, Augustin meets up with Honoré (Oris Erhuero), who is in jail in Tanzania for his involvement in the Genocide by means of his anti-Tutsi radio messages. He finds the courage to do so after listening to the harrowing testimony of Valentine (Cléophas Kabasita), a fellow survivor. Honoré tearfully recounts what happened back in 1994, when he was trying to drive Jeanne (Carole Karemera) and her two sons to safety: upon reaching the military checkpoint, Honoré desperately tries to negotiate the safety of the others to no avail, since they are all ordered to be killed -which we see earlier, but it fades to black before actually being shown-. The two boys are immediately shot dead and Jeanne is hit with a rifle butt and left for dead; however, Honoré manages to hide her in a ditch among many corpses and, later, returns to retrieve her and leave at the entrance of the church where she was tended to. These actions forced Honoré to exile, due to being branded as a traitor, and his eventual arrest and sentencing. He later learned that Jeanne was targeted and repeatedly raped by Hutu soldiers when they razed the church and, seeing she would not survive the ordeal, committed suicide with a live grenade, also killing many aggressors and victims in the process.

In the end, Augustin is reminiscing of the significance of the month of April in contemporary Rwandan history and we learn that he is in a relationship with Martine (Pamela Nomvete), the former teacher from Anne-Marie’s school and they are expecting a child together. The last scene shows Martine laying flowers at the site of the school massacre and a popular tribunal where men involved in the killings are being judged, with Martine coming forward to testify against them. Also, title cards show the final death toll of the Genocide and its aftermath.