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Sometimes in April
Why this pick
Like Hotel Rwanda, it confronts the Rwandan genocide through intimate moral choices and the unbearable costs of inaction, with a sober, human-scale focus rather than spectacle.
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MOVIE2004 2h 1m USA
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
During the Rwandan civil war, hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina, who is Hutu, and his wife Tatiana, who is Tutsi, agree to shelter over a thousand refugees during the genocide crisis. While the rest of the world closed its eyes, Paul opened his heart to prove that the human spirit can make us stronger than we'd ever imagine.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Leleti Khumalo
Fedens
Neil McCarthy
Jean Jacques
Joaquin Phoenix
Jack Daglish
Don Cheadle
Paul Rusesabagina
Sophie Okonedo
Tatiana Rusesabagina
Nick Nolte
Colonel Oliver
Jean Reno
Sabena Airlines President, Mr. Tillens
Hakeem Kae-Kazim
George Rutaganda