A War (2015)

After a soldier under his command dies while on duty, commander Pilou Asbæk vows to join his men on every subsequent patrol. The squad is ambushed while patrolling a Afghani village and Asbæk calls in an airstrike without proper identification, an act that has him sent home for the murder of eleven civilians. I haven’t seen many films set during the recent fighting in Afghanistan and this one doesn’t make any attempt to portray good sides or bad sides. It casts everyone involved as casualties of the situation from the soldiers fighting to their families back home to the civilians who are all caught in the middle of an awful situation where no one wins.  

Oscar Nomination: Best Foreign Language Film of the Year