YOUNG AHMED

| 2020 – 84′ –  A Belgium/France Co-Production. Drama, Co-Produced by France.
Written by: Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne.
Directed by: Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne.
Starring: Idir Ben Addi, Olivier Bonnaud, Myriem Akheddiou, Victoria Bluck, Claire Bodson, Othmane Moumen.
Official Selections: Cannes International Film Festival 2019 (Winner Best Director), New York Film Festival 2019. Césars Awards 2020: Nominated for Best Foreign Film.
In French with English subtitles.
A Kino Lorber Films release. |

The Dardenne Brothers won this year’s Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival for this brave new work, another intimate portrayal-in-furious-motion of a protagonist in crisis. The filmmakers’ radical empathy alights on a Muslim teenager (extraordinary first-time actor Idir Ben Addi) in a small Belgian town who has been radicalized by his Imam despite the desperate protestations of his single mother (Claire Bodson), and who winds up hatching a murderous plot targeting his beloved teacher (Myriem Akheddiou). Taking a serious view of a difficult issue–the effect of fanaticism on the body and soul–the Dardennes here remind viewers why they continue to be at the center of 21st-century cinema. – New York Film Festival.

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