The 14-year-old star of a Canadian film has won the best actress award at the Berlin Film Festival for her performance as a young African girl turned child soldier.
Congolese actress Rachel Mwanza played 12-year-old Congolese girl, Komona, in Quebec director Kim Nguyen's French-language drama 'War Witch' (known as 'Rebelle' in French). The film was the first Canadian production to screen in a competition at the German festival in 12 years.
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