Incendies
Incendies is a 2010 Canadian mystery drama film written and directed by Denis Villeneuve. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawads play of the same name, Incendies follows the journey of twin brother and sister as they attempt to unravel the mystery of their mothers life. The film premiered at the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals in September 2010 and was released in Quebec onSeptember 2010. In 2011, it was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. And it won the UPC Audience Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2011.
Nawal Marwan, an immigrant to Canada, succumbs to a stroke she suffers at a community swimming pool, and her two children, a brother and sister, receive her final requests in her will. To fulfill her wishes, they must journey to her birthplace.The movie contains a series of flashbacks to the mothers life. Nawal, a MiddleEastern Christian is impregnated by a refugee. Nawals infuriated brothers kill her lover as he and Nawal try to escape. She reveals to her grandmother that she is pregnant. They keep the pregnancy secret in order to save face. Upon the babys birth, the grandmother tattoos the infants heel, and they give the baby boy away. Nawal follows her promise to her grandmother to study in Daresh a fictional city during which a civil war breaks out. Under threat of war, Nawal returns to find her lost son. War has preceded her arrival as she discovers her sons orphanage at Kfar Khout has been destroyed by Christian militia led by a man called Chamseddine. She then pretends to be a Muslim to board a bus with other Muslims fleeing to get to the refugee camp in a city called Deressa another fictional city where her son is said to have been moved. ........
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