Sometimes in April (2005)

Share this quote on facebook Yes, it is April again... Every year in April the raining season starts. And every year, every day in April... The haunting emptiness descends over our hearts. Every year in April, I remember how quickly life ends. Every year, I remember how lucky I should feel to be alive. Every year in April... I remember.

Share this quote on facebook Marcus: Mom, why do they call us cockroaches?
Jeanne: Because they don't know any better, sweetheart.

Share this quote on facebook Marcus: So when I grow up, my I.D. card will say "Hutu"?
Augustin: Yes. But one day, I hope that it will just say "Rwandan".

Share this quote on facebook Priest: [Entering the office as Martine shepherds the girls out] Martine, a word.
Martine: I'm sorry Father, we have a school full of terrified girls.
Priest: Martine, we are in a very difficult position, but we must do our duty. We cannot harbor rebels. We must hand them over.
Martine: Father, these are not rebels! These are girls, girls that you've promised to raise as your own daughters! And now you would turn them out?
Priest: What can I do, my child? We cannot protect all of them! I do not have the power to change the situation! We must pray.

Share this quote on facebook Martine: Girls, they're going to ask you for your identification cards. They want all Tutsis to come out. They want to separate us. I can't do this.
Isa: I'll go, mistress.
Anne-Marie: If Isa goes, I'll go!
Anne-Marie's Friend #1: I'll go.
Anne-Marie's Friend #2: I'll go.
Anne-Marie's Friend #3: I'll go.
Anne-Marie: We're sisters! We're staying together!
Victorine: We're staying together!
Martine: Do you understand the choices that you're making? Do you understand?

Share this quote on facebook Martine: Please, think of them as your own daughters.
RAF Soldier #1: My daughter is not a cockroach!

Share this quote on facebook Prudence Bushnell: [on the phone] No, you do not need a cease-fire to stop this hate-radio broadcast! Monsieur Bagasora, if you do not stop the killing there will be consequences.
Colonel Bagosora: Really? You will send the marines? We have no oil here, no dams, we have nothing you need in Rwanda; why would you come?
Prudence Bushnell: If you do not stop the killings, I promise you that you will be held personally responsible.
Colonel Bagosora: I will see what we can do.

Share this quote on facebook Journalist: These rebels, are they Tutu or Hutsi?
Prudence Bushnell: Hutu and Tutsi!
Journalist: Which ones are the good guys?

Share this quote on facebook Judge Arusha: [after Valentine finishes her testimony] May I ask, why did you make what must have been a difficult decision to come to Arusha to testify in this tribunal?
Valentine: I saw that this man did and I felt responsible to testify about this man's betrayal of the people who I entrusted to him. [Looking at defendant] When a man leads assassins, he is also an assassin.

Share this quote on facebook Lionel Quaid: Prudence, our mission was not to intervene while the system functioned perfectly. A few years down the road, the President will ask for forgiveness and make the promise of "never again", but in terms of national interest we did everything right.
Prudence Bushnell: We were loyal to a policy that allowed hundreds of thousands of people to be killed! As far as moral imperative, we did not do the right thing.
Lionel Quaid: We're bureaucrats, not the political leadership.
Prudence Bushnell: Is it because they're African?
Lionel Quaid: Don't do that, Pru. It was Rwandans killing Rwandans.