SYNOPSIS
In Belgium today, a young boy and an adolescent girl who have traveled alone from Africa pit their invincible friendship against the cruel conditions of their exile.
Awards
75th Anniversary Prize | Cannes IFF, France, 2022
CAST & CREW

Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Director
Producer(s)
Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Delphine Tomson
Script
Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Director of Photography
Benoit Dervaux
Production designer
Igor Gabriel
Sound
Jean-Pierre Duret, Thomas Gauder
Edit
Marie-Hélène Dozo
Cast
Pablo Schils, Mbundu Joely, Alban Ukaj
Production company(ies)
Archipel 35, Les Films du Fleuve, Savage Film
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Brothers Dardenne are a Belgian filmmaking duo. They write, produce and direct their films together. The Dardennes began making narrative and documentary films in the late 1970s, but they first came to international attention in the mid-1990s with The Promise. They won their first major international film prize when Rosetta won the Palme d'Or at the 1999 Cannes IFF. Since then all their films have played at the Cannes main competition and won one of the major prizes.
Filmography
Chant du rossignol (doc., 1978), Lorsque le bateau de Léon M. descendit la Meuse pour la première fois (doc. short, 1979), Pour que la guerre s’achève, les murs devaient s’écrouler (doc., 1980), R... ne répond plus (doc., 1981), Leçon d’une université volante (doc., 1982), Regarde Jonathan: Jean Louvet, son oeuvre (doc., 1983), Il court, il court, Le Monde (short, 1987), Falsch (1987), I Think of You (1992), The Promise (1996), Gigi, Monica… et Bianca (1997), Rosetta (1999), The Son (2002), The Child (2005), To Each His Own Cinema (segment Darkness, 2007), Lorna's Silence (2008), The Kid with a Bike (2011), Two Days, One Night (2014), The Unknown Girl (2016), Young Ahmed (2019), Tori and Lokita (2022).