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While a twelve-year-old white girl in the modern city plays with smartphones and tablets, sharing her feelings online, her black counterpart in the African jungle is abducted by the Tiger Rebels during a village raid. Forced to kill her own family and endure brutal beatings is just the beginning. The ultimate test of humanity comes when she is trained by the enemy, indoctrinated with a logic of hatred to fight against the government forces. Death brushes past her, yet she is granted special protection for being believed to possess witch-like powers. The dead offer revelations, and a mysterious boy spreads the hope of love. Can she and he ultimately escape the myriad unseen horrors? Congolese teenager Rachel Mwanza delivers a stunning performance as the war witch living between love and pain, earning her the Berlin Best Actress award and an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.
