Canadian Film Showing "INCENDIES" April 22, 2011

Opens April 22nd in LA

**Academy Award 2011 Nominee: Best Foreign Language Film (Canada) **
Official Selection: Venice Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival

Written & Directed by Denis Villeneuve
Adapted from the play by Wajdi Mouawad
Starring Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette, Rémy Girard
Produced by Luc Déry and Kim McCraw

When notary Lebel (Rémy Girard) sits down with Jeanne and Simon Marwan (Mélissa Désormeaux Poulin, Maxim Gaudette) to read them their mother Nawal’s will (Lubna 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 Nawal’s 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 their mother's posthumous mind games. 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 Lebel’s help, the twins piece together the story of the woman who brought them into the world, discovering a tragic fate as well as the courage of an exceptional woman.

An adaptation of Wajdi Mouawad’s acclaimed play, Incendies, is a deeply moving story that brings the extremism and violence of today's world to a starkly personal level, delivering a powerful and poetic testament of the will to survive.

Official Website: http://www.sonyclassics.com/incendies/