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Back in Montreal, Samir and Alia sat in their mother’s empty apartment. They had each learned the truth: their father was a man named Nawar Sawaya, their brother was also named Nawar Sawaya, and their mother had spent her whole life carrying a wound that looped back on itself like a cursed ouroboros.

Incendies is not an easy watch. It is a film about the horrors of war, the silence of survivors, and the terrible weight of inheritance. It is emotionally exhausting. Incendies -2010-2010