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Incendies
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This powerful film by Canadian Denis Villeneuve was nominated for Best Foreign Language film at the 2011 Academy Awards. Though based on Wajdi Mouawad's play of the same name, Incendies never feels like a stage play as it recounts the harrowing story of Nawal Marwan (Lubna Azabal), whose real past her children only uncover after her death. Having been summoned by Nawal's former employer and friend, the notary Lebel (Remy Girard), to the reading of their mother's Will, twins...