“Each day I pray to God to give me the strength to love you.” Fourteen-year old Komona (Rachel Mwanza, in one of the best performances of the year) tells her unborn son the story of her kidnapping and coercion into becoming a child soldier for the Great Tiger rebels. Set in nowhere Sub-Saharan Africa, WAR WITCH is filmed with the ultra realism of a documentary though its forests teem with ghosts, its villages with magic, its love story with unexpected reveries of laughter, and its child’s story with sudden tragedies that must be confronted in the search for peace.

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In 2002, Kim Nguyen wrote and directed his first feature: LE MARAIS. The film received 6 Jutra nominations including Best Film and Best Director. His second feature, TRUFFE, which he wrote, directed and produced, stars Roy Dupuis and was the opening film at Montreal‘s FANTASIA Film Festival in 2008. It also garnered international awards including Best Film at the Karlovy Vary Fresh Film Festival. In 2009 he directed LA CITE, an international co-production starring Jean Marc Barr. WAR WITCH, his latest feature was entirely shot in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in July 2011 and had its world premiere incompetition at the Berlin International Film Festival, North American Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival where it won awards at both.

In 2002, Kim Nguyen wrote and directed his first feature: LE MARAIS. The film received 6 Jutra nominations including Best Film and Best Director. His second feature, TRUFFE, which he wrote, directed and produced, stars Roy Dupuis and was the opening film at Montreal‘s FANTASIA Film Festival in 2008. It also garnered international awards including Best Film at the Karlovy Vary Fresh Film Festival. In 2009 he directed LA CITE, an international co-production starring Jean Marc Barr. WAR WITCH, his latest feature was entirely shot in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in July 2011 and had its world premiere incompetition at the Berlin International Film Festival, North American Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival where it won awards at both.