Thirty minutes into Kim Nguyen’s film War Witch (2012) (simply titled Rebelle in its original French Canadian release) I knew I was watching something like nothing I had seen before. Nguyen’s film is ...

“War Witch,” Canada’s Oscar-nominated Foreign-Language entry, centers on a young African girl’s abduction into a rebel army, her escape, and the slow, painful process of liberating herself from the ...

Kim Nguyen’s Oscar-nominated film War Witch, about a 12-year-old girl captured by rebel forces in sub-Saharan Africa, did not win the coveted statuette. But Komona's tale of survival in war-torn ...

Montreal director Kim Nguyen's Rebelle (War Witch) begins inside an impoverished African compound. The poorest of the poor while away the hours around their clapboard huts by the side of a lake.

War Witch, a film nominated for a Best Foreign Language Oscar, takes a page from the novelist Garcia Marquez to breathe life into the magic that dwells in the mind of a teenage girl caught in the ...

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - A grave 12-year-old African girl, abducted from her village by vicious armed rebels and forced to wage war as a child soldier, guides the viewer through the horrors of Canadian ...

A film that allows us to find the humanity in an unhappy land. You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. We independently select everything we ...

An account of a girl soldier struggling to survive in a conflict-torn central African state, "War Witch" offers the sort of harrowing experience one would expect given its abominable subject matter.

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War Witch, the story of a child soldier in Africa, was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Oscar and it won tons of film festival prizes all over the world. The real-life story of actress Rachel ...

Canadian director Kim Nguyen’s drama centers on a 12-year-old African girl, who is abducted from her village by vicious armed rebels and forced to wage war as a child soldier. By Deborah Young Berlin ...