Incendies

When Jeanne and Simon Marwan attend the reading of their late mother's will, they are handed two envelopes: one is addressed to the father they thought had died and the other is for the brother they never knew they had. Jeanne sees in this enigmatic legacy the key to her mother's silence, that unexplained silence her mother had retreated into during the final weeks before she died. Jeanne immediately decides to leave for the Middle East to unearth the past of the family she knows almost nothing about… As for Simon, he could not care less about the posthumous whims of his mother who had always been distant. But his love for his twin sister soon leads him to go out and join her, travelling across their ancestors' country in search of a mother far removed from the one they had known. - 'To adapt such a dramatic text for the cinema while avoiding melodrama, I opted for the restraint of raw realism, keeping the play's mythological dimension through work with natural light and shadows.' Denis Villeneuve