ITHACA, N.Y. -- Paul Rusesabagina, the hero portrayed in the Oscar-nominated movie "Hotel Rwanda," will deliver a public lecture, "Hotel Rwanda: A Lesson Yet to Be Learned," Wednesday April 20, at 8 p.m. in the Statler Auditorium on the Cornell University campus. Tickets are $5, available at the Willard Straight ticket office.

All proceeds will benefit the Genocide Intervention Fund, http://www.genocideinterventionfund.org.

Rusesabagina's visit will be accompanied by three screenings of "Hotel Rwanda" at Cornell Cinema in the Willard Straight Theatre, with a free screening Saturday, April 16, at 7:15 p.m. Ticket information for all three screenings will be announced. Check http://cinema.cornell.edu for more information.

In 1994 Rusesabagina, a Hutu manager of a luxury hotel in Rwanda, saved the lives of more than 1,200 people, including his own Tutsi wife and children, as more than 800,000 members of the Tutsis and moderate Hutus were massacred in just 100 days.

Rusesabagina's story and that of the Rwandan genocide is chronicled in "Hotel Rwanda," a riveting account of a man finding courage within himself to save others as the world turned its back on them.

The lecture and screenings are sponsored by STARS, the Cornell Holocaust and genocide awareness group, and co-sponsored by Cornell Hillel, Institute for African Development, the Office of the Vice Provost for Diversity and Faculty Development, the Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell Cinema and the Department of History.

For more information contact Shiri Sandler, STARS, at sbs37@cornell.edu .

The visit is funded in part by the Student Assemblies Finance Commission and Weinberg Tzedek Hillel, Darmstaedter Holocaust Education and the Student Initiatives Committee of Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life.