Canada’s ‘Rebelle’ makes latest cut on road to Academy Award nomination

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – “Rebelle” from Montreal-born director Kim Nguyen is continuing on the road to an Academy Award.

The film has made a list of nine titles that will vie for the Oscar for best foreign-language film.

“Rebelle” — “War Witch” in English — is about child soldiers in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Seventy-one films had initially qualified in the foreign-language category.

The other eight films left in the race are Austria’s “Amour”; Chile’s “No”; Denmark’s “A Royal Affair”; France’s “The Intouchables”; Iceland’s “The Deep”; Norway’s “Kon-Tiki”; Romania’s “Beyond the Hills” and Switzerland’s “Sister.”

Oscar nominations will be announced on Jan. 24.