Monique Dartonne

Before he became one of the biggest names in blockbuster filmmaking, Denis Villeneuve scored an Oscar® nod for Best Foreign Language Film with this visceral thriller. Tracing the indelible scars of war across oceans and generations, Incendies is a globetrotting mystery of singular emotional power.

When the archive is lacking, a feminist historiographer casts convention aside, embracing embodiment and imagination. Alive to both the loneliness and the liberation of that speculative path, Claudia von Alemann’s achingly beautiful film is textured with blue-grey melancholy and untold possibility.