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MOVIE · 2011

Incendies

DramaMysteryWar131 min

After their mother’s death, twins Jeanne (Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin) and Simon (Maxim Gaudette) are handed a will that sends them to the Middle East to find the father they believed was dead and a brother they never knew existed. Following scattered clues through checkpoints, prisons, and orphanages, they piece together the history of a woman they never fully understood and the war that marked her life. Directed by Denis Villeneuve, the story shifts between the siblings’ search and the past they uncover, tracing family ties through political violence, displacement, and buried memory.

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