WAZABI FILMS
 
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Completed - FRENCH, ARABIC - Drama - 130 minutes

Previous markets

  • Toronto 2010 (Premiere)
  • AFM 2010 (Screening)
  • Berlin EFM 2011 (Screening)
Full history

Year of production : 2009

Director(s) : Denis VILLENEUVE
Cast : Lubna AZABAL, Maxim GAUDETTE, Melissa DESORMEAUX-POULIN, Remy GIRARD

Producer(s) : Kim MCCRAW, Luc DERY

Synopsis

When notary Lebel (Rémy Girard) sits down with Jeanne (Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin) and Simon Marwan (Maxim Gaudette) to read them the will of their mother Nawal (Lubna Azabal), the twins are stunned to receive a pair of envelopes – one for the father they thought was dead and another for a brother they didn’t know existed. In this enigmatic inheritance, Jeanne sees the key to Nawal’s retreat into unexplained silence during the final weeks of her life. She immediately decides to go to the Middle East to dig into a family history of which she knows next to nothing. Simon is unmoved by the posthumous mind games of a mother who was always distant and cold. But his love for his sister is strong, and he soon joins her in combing their ancestral homeland in search of a Nawal who is so very different from the mother they knew. With Lebel’s help, the twins piece together the story of the woman who brought them into the world, discovering a tragic fate forever marked by war and hatred – and the courage of an exceptional woman. An adaptation of Wajdi Mouawad’s hit play, Incendies is a deeply moving coming-of-age story that brings the horror of war to a starkly personal level, delivering a powerful and poetic testament to the indelible scars of the cycle of violence, and the uncanny power of the will to survive.

Production

Country(ies) : CANADA

AUSTRALIA SBS TELEVISION
AUSTRIA POLYFILM VERLEI
BELGIUM CINÉART BELGIUM
CHINA INFOTAINMENT CH
DENMARK SCANBOX ENTERTA
FRANCE Jan 12, 2011 HAPPINESS DISTR
GERMANY DEGETO FILM GMB
GERMANY MAXMEDIEN GMBH
GERMANY ARSENAL FILMVER
HONG KONG EDKO FILMS LTD
ISRAEL LEV CINEMAS LTD
ITALY Jan 21, 2011 LUCKY RED
JAPAN NEW SELECT CO.
KOREA (Sou TCAST CO., LTD.
NETHERLAND Feb 10, 2011 CINÉART NETHERL
NORWAY FILM & KINO
POLAND HAGI FILM
RUSSIA RUSCICO (RUSSIA
SPAIN Mar 11, 2011 CINES RENOIR
SWITZERLAN FILMCOOPI ZURIC
TURKEY BIR FILM
UNITED KIN TRINITY FILMED


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Festivals and Awards

Abu Dhabi FF 2010 - Narrative Feature Competition (Best Actress)


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