Incendies (2010)
Drama, Mystery, War
When notary Lebel (Girard) sits down with Jeanne and Simon Marwan (Désormeaux-Poulin, Gaudette) to read them their mothers will Nawal (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 Nawals 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. However, the love he has for his sister is strong, and he soon joins her in combing their ancestral homeland in search of a Nawal who is very different from the mother they knew.
With Lebels 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 as well as the courage of an exceptional woman. An adaptation of Wajdi Mouawads 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.
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Writers: Denis Villeneuve, Wajdi Mouawad, Valérie Beaugrand-Champagne
Stars: Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette, Rémy Girard, Abdelghafour Elaaziz, Mohamed Majd, Allen Altman
►Cast:
| Mustafa Kamel | ► | Barbier de la Milice / Officer Milice Chrétienne |
| Hussein Sami | ► | Nihad (5ans) |
| Rémy Girard | ► | Notaire Jean Lebel |
| Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin | ► | Jeanne Marwan |
| Maxim Gaudette | ► | Simon Marwan |
| Dominique Briand | ► | Professor Niv Cohen |
| Lubna Azabal | ► | Nawal Marwan |
| Frédéric Paquet | ► | Médecin a l’urgence |
| Hamed Najem | ► | Wahab |
| Ahmad Massad | ► | Bassem Marwan |
| Bader Alami | ► | Nicolas Marwan |
| Majida Hussein | ► | Grand-mére de Nawal |
| Asriah Nijres | ► | Sage-Femme |
| John Dunn-Hill | ► | Professeur Saïd Haidar |
| Nadia Essadiqi | ► | Secrétaire Université |
| Chaouki Charbel | ► | Professeur Université |
| Axel Garbi | ► | Universitaire #1 |
| Amine Benzenine | ► | Universitaire #2 |
| Joyce Raie | ► | Étudiante Journaliste |
| Celine Soulier | ► | Journaliste Française |
| Sumaya Al-Attia | ► | Rafqa (as Sumaya Attia) |
| Mohammad Rasheed Ajlouni | ► | Étudiant à Bout de Souffle |
| Nabil Koni | ► | Oncle Charbel |
| Laila Qutub | ► | Jeune Cousine de Nawal |
| Raja’a Hikma | ► | Tante de Nawal |
| Rand Faris | ► | Autre Cousine de Nawal |
| Hayef Majeed Mubarak | ► | Voisin |
| Sulwan Daoud | ► | Soldat Checkpoint #1 |
| Nafeh Niam | ► | Soldat Checkpoint #2 |
| Widad Shafago | ► | Demme à l’orphelinat |
| Baker Kabbani | ► | Vieux Berger |
| Basel Karim Hazem | ► | Conducteur Autobus |
| Jackie Sawiris | ► | Mére |
| Noura Waleed | ► | Fillette |
| Kamal Fanni | ► | Milicien #1 |
| Abdallah Hweidi | ► | Milicien #2 |
| Firas Fanni | ► | Milicien #3 |
| Ramzi Fanni | ► | Milicien #4 |
| Fadel Abdel Latif | ► | Épicier |
| Ali Hussein | ► | Ahmed |
| Zeinab Mohammad | ► | Jeunne Fille à la Porte |
| Rehab Hazim | ► | Fillette |
| Baraka Rahmani | ► | Samia |
| Yada Mahmoud | ► | Femme #1 |
| Hadeel Hisham | ► | Femme #2 |
| Hind Kamel | ► | Femme #3 |
| Rasmeyeh Leftey | ► | Souha |
| Lara Atalla | ► | Femme en Colére #1 |
| Sajida Hussein | ► | Femme en Colére #2 |
| Raya Qaraein | ► | Femme en Colére #3 |
| Ahmad Srour | ► | Homme Masqué |
| Ali Elayan | ► | Chef de la Milice Chrétienne |
| Anton Atalla | ► | Assistant Chef de la Milice |
| Karim Shiyab | ► | Invité #1 |
| Kamal Al Muhaisen | ► | Invité #2 |
| Marwan Dudin | ► | Wajdi |
| Maria Mohammedi | ► | Épiuse du Chief de la Milice |
| Zalfa Chelhot | ► | Nouchine |
| Michael Zananiri | ► | Milicien #5 |
| Shadi Bishara Jou’aneh | ► | Milicien #6 |
| Robert Auclair | ► | Barbierde la Prison |
| Belkacem Lahbairi | ► | Guide de la Prison |
| Nabil Sawalha | ► | Fahim |
| Camille Rizkallah | ► | Gardien de la Prison #1 (as Camille Rizkalla) |
| Abdelghani Ben Rafalia | ► | Gardien de la Prison #2 |
| Abdelghafour Elaaziz | ► | Abou Tarek |
| Baya Belal | ► | Maika |
| Georges Khayat | ► | Gardien à la Riviére |
| Allen Altman | ► | Notaire Maddad |
| Christine Aubin Khalifah | ► | Infirmiére sons Palliatifs |
| Mohammad Sami | ► | Enfant décombres #1 |
| Sam Jamal | ► | Enfant décombres #2 |
| Jihad Hazem | ► | Enfant décombres #3 |
| Ram Qabil | ► | Jeune Homme Décombres |
| Yousef Soufan | ► | Nihad (15 ans) |
| Yousef Shweihat | ► | Guide de Deressa (as Yousef Shuwayhat) |
| Jabar Risheq | ► | Hamid |
| Karim Babin | ► | Homme de Chamseddine #1 |
| Adel Ladikani | ► | Homme de Chamseddine #2 |
| Mher Karakashian | ► | Assistant de Chamseddine |
| Mohamed Majd | ► | Chamseddine |
| Aladeen Tawfeek | ► | Ami de Nihad |
| Sam Chamas | ► | Patient |