• Director(s)

    Raoul Peck

  • Production Year

    2005

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    141m

  • Cast

    Idris Elba, Oris Erhuero, Noah Emmerich, Fraser James, Carole Karemera, Abby Mikiibi Nkaaga, Pamela Nomvete, Michelle Rugema

Film

Sometimes In April

moderate violence and strong language

A Hutu soldier tries to get his family to safety during the genocide against the Tutsi in this intense US drama, based on events in Rwanda in 1994, which sometimes depicts genocide in distressing detail.…

A Hutu soldier tries to get his family to safety during the genocide against the Tutsi in this intense US drama, based on events in Rwanda in 1994, which sometimes depicts genocide in distressing detail.

Content Advice(May contain spoilers)

violence

threat and horror

language

discrimination

sexual violence and sexual threat

injury detail

sex

drugs

  • Director(s)

    Raoul Peck

  • Production Year

    2005

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    141m

  • Cast

    Idris Elba, Oris Erhuero, Noah Emmerich, Fraser James, Carole Karemera, Abby Mikiibi Nkaaga, Pamela Nomvete, Michelle Rugema

moderate violence and strong language
Classified Date:
17/03/2006
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Warner Home Video Ltd
violence
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.
threat and horror
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.
language
There is use of strong language (‘f**k’), accompanied by other milder terms (‘screw’, ‘God’, ‘damn’ and ‘hell’).
discrimination
‘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.
sexual violence and sexual threat
There are verbal references to sexual violence when a witness gives evidence in court.
injury detail
Scenes feature sometimes lingering shots of bloody corpses, for example, littering the roadside or on the back of trucks.

  • Classified date

    17/03/2006

  • BBFC reference

    AVV218548

  • Language

    English