What would you do if your father came up to you one day wearing a purple sweater and told you that he was gay? Maybe, just maybe, as Beginners tells us, it’d help you learn how to live and love.

Every major conflict has been portrayed in film in some way or other; every perspective has been covered and every voice has been heard. Or so it would seem. But once in a while a film surfaces that tells a familiar, but somehow different story, one that shocks us and leaves us reeling with a new personal view on the horrors of war. Incendies is just that sort of film.