War Witch Page #4

Synopsis: Komona, a girl in Sub-Saharan Africa, tells the story to her unborn child about her kidnapping by rebels and forced to join their bloody civil war. When she discovers a valuable intuition about the presence of the enemy, she is elevated as a witch and favored by the rebel leader. However, this special status threatens to be short-lived in this world of superstition and senseless brutality even as the ghosts of the war dead haunt her visions. However, when a newfound friend convinces her to desert, Komona finds escaping that brutal life is far from easy with its physical and spiritual consequences following her wherever she goes.
Genre: Drama, War
Director(s): Kim Nguyen
Production: Tribeca Film
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 34 wins & 11 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Metacritic:
84
Rotten Tomatoes:
94%
NOT RATED
Year:
2012
90 min
$28,620
Website
230 Views


but you force me to stay here

at The Butcher's,

even if I have to bury my parents

before you come out of my belly,

or else the evil spirits

will punish you

for all the bad things

that I have done,

just like they punished

my husband the magician

because I married him before

I buried my father and my mother,

You want to make me

admit things.

You are a witch.

You eat people at night.

I eat no one!

You eat people at night!

How did the witchcraft

get into your body?

It's not in my body!

what do you want?

I have witchcraft in my body.

How did it get in?

Through Great Tiger's gun.

what?

Through Great Tiger's gun.

what do you want?

I want you to rid me

of the witchcraft.

I need a token to pray.

You must pray a lot

and ask God for forgiveness

so that Komona's spirit

returns to your body.

I will kill you!

You killed my family,

my husband!

Give me my gun!

what's gotten into you?

wait!

Each day, I pray to God

to help me so I don't hate you,

so I don't throw you in the river

when you come out of my belly,

In my head, there are things

that even the magic milk

can't erase,

Go, go, Father

Go, go, Mother

I decided to call you Magician,

Iike my husband who died,

because I hope that,

one day,

you will become strong

and courageous just like him,

where are you heading?

- To my uncle's, The Butcher.

- Get in!

I don't have any money.

No one has money.

It's OK.

I'll take care of him.

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Kim Nguyen

Kim Nguyen is a Canadian film director and screenwriter, best known for his 2012 film War Witch (Rebelle). The film was the top winner at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards; in addition to being named Best Picture and winning acting awards for two of its stars, Nguyen himself won the awards for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.Born and raised in Montreal, Quebec to a Vietnamese father and a French Canadian mother, Nguyen has directed a number of feature films to date including War Witch (also known by the French title Rebelle) in 2012 and Eye on Juliet in 2017. He is a 1997 graduate of Concordia University in Montreal, having earned a BFA. more…

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