 Authors Gada Mahrouse, Chantal Maillé and Daniel Salée wrote McCraw and Déry's films, "Incendies", "Monsieur Lazhar" and "Inch'Allah", depict Quebec as part of the global village and as accepting minorities, particularly Middle Easterners or "Muslim Others".They go on to remark that unlike the other two films, all of "Monsieur Lazhar" is set in Quebec.The film was selected as the Canadian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards, and on 18 January 2012, it was named as one of the nine shortlisted entries for the Oscars.