Incendies -2010-2010 |verified| Direct

Samir Nazar was twenty-three when he stopped believing in secrets. His mother, Leila, had been a fortress of silence—fierce, loving, but walled. When she died of a sudden aneurysm in the winter of 2010, she left behind two envelopes: one for Samir, one for his twin sister, Alia.

"Incendies" won several awards, including the Genie Award for Best Canadian First Feature Film and the Canadian Screen Award for Best Actress (Hiam Abbass). The film was also nominated for several other awards, including the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Incendies -2010-2010

Simon reacts with anger and refusal, but Jeanne (Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin) reluctantly agrees to travel to the Middle East to retrace her mother’s footsteps. What follows is a dual narrative: Jeanne’s investigation in the present day, and flashbacks to Nawal’s youth in a fictionalized, war-torn country (based heavily on the Lebanese Civil War). Samir Nazar was twenty-three when he stopped believing