Nadine Lebky is a step closer to the Oscars after winning the audience award in Toronto.

Lebanese movie “Where do we go now?” directed by Nadine Lebky won the audience’s chosen movie in Toronto Cinema Festival. This is considered a good sign for nomination to the Oscars later on in January, which makes Lebky one of the very few Arab candidates ever to win an Oscar.Lebky stated that she first thought of the idea of this movie when she was pregnant, and decided that if she has a boy she doesn’t want him to go to war. From there she came up with the story of a small Lebanese village that is disturbed by a sedition break out that warns of war. The women in the village try to prevent the men of going to a war that they may never come back from.The movie was played in the Cannes Film Festival and was a great success and chosen by the audience to re play at the Toronto Cinema Festival, and now it has become a close candidate to the Oscar nomination for best foreign film.