Sometimes In April

Racially motivated violence includes the massacre of Tutsi people in numerous scenes, sometimes accompanied with bloody detail. In one sequence, soldiers slaughter a class of schoolgirls. Some shootings also take place off-screen.

There are scenes in which people, including women and children, are threatened by soldiers with guns and knives. A woman begs for the lives of her children. Houses and other property are set on fire and destroyed. Scenes in a courtroom involve witnesses recalling harrowing and traumatic experiences. People are distressed when seeing dead loved ones.

There is use of strong language (‘f**k’), accompanied by other milder terms (‘screw’, ‘God’, ‘damn’ and ‘hell’).

‘Cockroach’ and other racist slurs are used during an anti-Tutsi propaganda radio broadcast. In another scene, a man inspects the face of an African man in an attempt to classify his race.

There are verbal references to sexual violence when a witness gives evidence in court.

Scenes feature sometimes lingering shots of bloody corpses, for example, littering the roadside or on the back of trucks.