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War Witch (French: Rebelle) is a 2012 Canadian drama film written and directed by Kim Nguyen and was primarily filmed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The film was in competition for the Golden Bear at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival in February 2012. At Berlin, Rachel Mwanza won the Silver Bear for Best Actress. She also won the award for Best Actress at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival.
The film was Canada's entry in the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 85th Academy Awards, and became one of the five nominees. Mwanza received a visa to allow her to attend the Academy Awards.
War Witch became the top winner at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards, winning 10 awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor. The film also received the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding International Motion Picture.
During a civil war in sub-saharan Africa, a 12-year-old girl named Komona is abducted by rebel forces to become a child soldier. She is given a gun and told to choose between shooting her parents, who huddle in front of her, or watching them come to a much more painful end via machete. With tears in her eyes, she shoots them. Then, with other captives, she is whisked by motorised canoe up the river and led into a forest where training exercises immediately commence. New recruits are regularly beaten and face near-starvation.
Actors: Mathieu Kassovitz (producer), Genevieve Lemal (producer), Stéphane Elmadjian (editor), Alexandre Lippens (producer), Elisa Larrière (producer), Elisa Larrière (producer), Philippe Groff (miscellaneous crew), Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire (director), Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire (writer), Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire (producer), Marine Meillan (miscellaneous crew), Stephane Lieser (miscellaneous crew), Benoît Jaubert (producer), Eric Cole (actor), Elsa Fernández (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Johnny Mad Dog, maybe 15, leads a band of boy soldiers in a civil war in an unnamed African country. "Don't want to die? Don't be born" is one of their shouted mottoes. We follow Mad Dog and his crew - No Good Advice, Butterfly, Chicken Hair, and others - as they kill, pillage rape, interrogate, and terrorize on their march to the capital. They take a TV station and lead an assault on the President's residence. We also follow Laokole, about Johnny age, as she tries to hold together her family of brother and disabled father. Is there more than chaos and inhumanity here? At war since age 10, has Johnny anything inside?
Keywords: africa, animal-in-title, army-general, bare-breasts, bible, boy, brother-sister-relationship, burial, cease-fire, character-name-in-titleActors: Mathieu Kassovitz (producer), Genevieve Lemal (producer), Stéphane Elmadjian (editor), Alexandre Lippens (producer), Elisa Larrière (producer), Elisa Larrière (producer), Philippe Groff (miscellaneous crew), Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire (director), Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire (writer), Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire (producer), Marine Meillan (miscellaneous crew), Stephane Lieser (miscellaneous crew), Benoît Jaubert (producer), Eric Cole (actor), Elsa Fernández (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Johnny Mad Dog, maybe 15, leads a band of boy soldiers in a civil war in an unnamed African country. "Don't want to die? Don't be born" is one of their shouted mottoes. We follow Mad Dog and his crew - No Good Advice, Butterfly, Chicken Hair, and others - as they kill, pillage rape, interrogate, and terrorize on their march to the capital. They take a TV station and lead an assault on the President's residence. We also follow Laokole, about Johnny age, as she tries to hold together her family of brother and disabled father. Is there more than chaos and inhumanity here? At war since age 10, has Johnny anything inside?
Keywords: africa, animal-in-title, army-general, bare-breasts, bible, boy, brother-sister-relationship, burial, cease-fire, character-name-in-titleActors: Mathieu Kassovitz (producer), Genevieve Lemal (producer), Stéphane Elmadjian (editor), Alexandre Lippens (producer), Elisa Larrière (producer), Elisa Larrière (producer), Philippe Groff (miscellaneous crew), Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire (director), Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire (writer), Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire (producer), Marine Meillan (miscellaneous crew), Stephane Lieser (miscellaneous crew), Benoît Jaubert (producer), Eric Cole (actor), Elsa Fernández (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Johnny Mad Dog, maybe 15, leads a band of boy soldiers in a civil war in an unnamed African country. "Don't want to die? Don't be born" is one of their shouted mottoes. We follow Mad Dog and his crew - No Good Advice, Butterfly, Chicken Hair, and others - as they kill, pillage rape, interrogate, and terrorize on their march to the capital. They take a TV station and lead an assault on the President's residence. We also follow Laokole, about Johnny age, as she tries to hold together her family of brother and disabled father. Is there more than chaos and inhumanity here? At war since age 10, has Johnny anything inside?
Keywords: africa, animal-in-title, army-general, bare-breasts, bible, boy, brother-sister-relationship, burial, cease-fire, character-name-in-titleActors: Mathieu Kassovitz (producer), Genevieve Lemal (producer), Stéphane Elmadjian (editor), Alexandre Lippens (producer), Elisa Larrière (producer), Elisa Larrière (producer), Philippe Groff (miscellaneous crew), Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire (director), Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire (writer), Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire (producer), Marine Meillan (miscellaneous crew), Stephane Lieser (miscellaneous crew), Benoît Jaubert (producer), Eric Cole (actor), Elsa Fernández (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Johnny Mad Dog, maybe 15, leads a band of boy soldiers in a civil war in an unnamed African country. "Don't want to die? Don't be born" is one of their shouted mottoes. We follow Mad Dog and his crew - No Good Advice, Butterfly, Chicken Hair, and others - as they kill, pillage rape, interrogate, and terrorize on their march to the capital. They take a TV station and lead an assault on the President's residence. We also follow Laokole, about Johnny age, as she tries to hold together her family of brother and disabled father. Is there more than chaos and inhumanity here? At war since age 10, has Johnny anything inside?
Keywords: africa, animal-in-title, army-general, bare-breasts, bible, boy, brother-sister-relationship, burial, cease-fire, character-name-in-titleActors: Mathieu Kassovitz (producer), Genevieve Lemal (producer), Stéphane Elmadjian (editor), Alexandre Lippens (producer), Elisa Larrière (producer), Elisa Larrière (producer), Philippe Groff (miscellaneous crew), Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire (director), Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire (writer), Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire (producer), Marine Meillan (miscellaneous crew), Stephane Lieser (miscellaneous crew), Benoît Jaubert (producer), Eric Cole (actor), Elsa Fernández (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Johnny Mad Dog, maybe 15, leads a band of boy soldiers in a civil war in an unnamed African country. "Don't want to die? Don't be born" is one of their shouted mottoes. We follow Mad Dog and his crew - No Good Advice, Butterfly, Chicken Hair, and others - as they kill, pillage rape, interrogate, and terrorize on their march to the capital. They take a TV station and lead an assault on the President's residence. We also follow Laokole, about Johnny age, as she tries to hold together her family of brother and disabled father. Is there more than chaos and inhumanity here? At war since age 10, has Johnny anything inside?
Keywords: africa, animal-in-title, army-general, bare-breasts, bible, boy, brother-sister-relationship, burial, cease-fire, character-name-in-titleActors: Mathieu Kassovitz (producer), Genevieve Lemal (producer), Stéphane Elmadjian (editor), Alexandre Lippens (producer), Elisa Larrière (producer), Elisa Larrière (producer), Philippe Groff (miscellaneous crew), Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire (director), Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire (writer), Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire (producer), Marine Meillan (miscellaneous crew), Stephane Lieser (miscellaneous crew), Benoît Jaubert (producer), Eric Cole (actor), Elsa Fernández (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Johnny Mad Dog, maybe 15, leads a band of boy soldiers in a civil war in an unnamed African country. "Don't want to die? Don't be born" is one of their shouted mottoes. We follow Mad Dog and his crew - No Good Advice, Butterfly, Chicken Hair, and others - as they kill, pillage rape, interrogate, and terrorize on their march to the capital. They take a TV station and lead an assault on the President's residence. We also follow Laokole, about Johnny age, as she tries to hold together her family of brother and disabled father. Is there more than chaos and inhumanity here? At war since age 10, has Johnny anything inside?
Keywords: africa, animal-in-title, army-general, bare-breasts, bible, boy, brother-sister-relationship, burial, cease-fire, character-name-in-titleActors: Mathieu Kassovitz (producer), Genevieve Lemal (producer), Stéphane Elmadjian (editor), Alexandre Lippens (producer), Elisa Larrière (producer), Elisa Larrière (producer), Philippe Groff (miscellaneous crew), Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire (director), Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire (writer), Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire (producer), Marine Meillan (miscellaneous crew), Stephane Lieser (miscellaneous crew), Benoît Jaubert (producer), Eric Cole (actor), Elsa Fernández (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Johnny Mad Dog, maybe 15, leads a band of boy soldiers in a civil war in an unnamed African country. "Don't want to die? Don't be born" is one of their shouted mottoes. We follow Mad Dog and his crew - No Good Advice, Butterfly, Chicken Hair, and others - as they kill, pillage rape, interrogate, and terrorize on their march to the capital. They take a TV station and lead an assault on the President's residence. We also follow Laokole, about Johnny age, as she tries to hold together her family of brother and disabled father. Is there more than chaos and inhumanity here? At war since age 10, has Johnny anything inside?
Keywords: africa, animal-in-title, army-general, bare-breasts, bible, boy, brother-sister-relationship, burial, cease-fire, character-name-in-titleActors: Mathieu Kassovitz (producer), Genevieve Lemal (producer), Stéphane Elmadjian (editor), Alexandre Lippens (producer), Elisa Larrière (producer), Elisa Larrière (producer), Philippe Groff (miscellaneous crew), Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire (director), Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire (writer), Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire (producer), Marine Meillan (miscellaneous crew), Stephane Lieser (miscellaneous crew), Benoît Jaubert (producer), Eric Cole (actor), Elsa Fernández (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Johnny Mad Dog, maybe 15, leads a band of boy soldiers in a civil war in an unnamed African country. "Don't want to die? Don't be born" is one of their shouted mottoes. We follow Mad Dog and his crew - No Good Advice, Butterfly, Chicken Hair, and others - as they kill, pillage rape, interrogate, and terrorize on their march to the capital. They take a TV station and lead an assault on the President's residence. We also follow Laokole, about Johnny age, as she tries to hold together her family of brother and disabled father. Is there more than chaos and inhumanity here? At war since age 10, has Johnny anything inside?
Keywords: africa, animal-in-title, army-general, bare-breasts, bible, boy, brother-sister-relationship, burial, cease-fire, character-name-in-titleActors: Mathieu Kassovitz (producer), Genevieve Lemal (producer), Stéphane Elmadjian (editor), Alexandre Lippens (producer), Elisa Larrière (producer), Elisa Larrière (producer), Philippe Groff (miscellaneous crew), Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire (director), Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire (writer), Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire (producer), Marine Meillan (miscellaneous crew), Stephane Lieser (miscellaneous crew), Benoît Jaubert (producer), Eric Cole (actor), Elsa Fernández (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Johnny Mad Dog, maybe 15, leads a band of boy soldiers in a civil war in an unnamed African country. "Don't want to die? Don't be born" is one of their shouted mottoes. We follow Mad Dog and his crew - No Good Advice, Butterfly, Chicken Hair, and others - as they kill, pillage rape, interrogate, and terrorize on their march to the capital. They take a TV station and lead an assault on the President's residence. We also follow Laokole, about Johnny age, as she tries to hold together her family of brother and disabled father. Is there more than chaos and inhumanity here? At war since age 10, has Johnny anything inside?
Keywords: africa, animal-in-title, army-general, bare-breasts, bible, boy, brother-sister-relationship, burial, cease-fire, character-name-in-titleActors: Mathieu Kassovitz (producer), Genevieve Lemal (producer), Stéphane Elmadjian (editor), Alexandre Lippens (producer), Elisa Larrière (producer), Elisa Larrière (producer), Philippe Groff (miscellaneous crew), Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire (director), Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire (writer), Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire (producer), Marine Meillan (miscellaneous crew), Stephane Lieser (miscellaneous crew), Benoît Jaubert (producer), Eric Cole (actor), Elsa Fernández (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Johnny Mad Dog, maybe 15, leads a band of boy soldiers in a civil war in an unnamed African country. "Don't want to die? Don't be born" is one of their shouted mottoes. We follow Mad Dog and his crew - No Good Advice, Butterfly, Chicken Hair, and others - as they kill, pillage rape, interrogate, and terrorize on their march to the capital. They take a TV station and lead an assault on the President's residence. We also follow Laokole, about Johnny age, as she tries to hold together her family of brother and disabled father. Is there more than chaos and inhumanity here? At war since age 10, has Johnny anything inside?
Keywords: africa, animal-in-title, army-general, bare-breasts, bible, boy, brother-sister-relationship, burial, cease-fire, character-name-in-titleI've had it up to here
With all of yer lies.
I've had enough
Of the people I despise.
Yer so impatient,
Yer so deranged,
I'm gonna end yer life,
It's already arranged!
I got an enemy
And that enemy is you!
I'm planning murder
I'm planning murder for you!
Go get an army,
I wanna war!
I'm gonna see your teeth on the floor!
I'm gonna hit you when you're goin' through the door!
I'm gonna kick you when you're half dead on the floor!
[Chorus]