YOUNG AHMED

Directors - Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne

Script - Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne

Camera - Benoit Dervaux

Cast - Idir Ben Addi, Myriem Akheddiou, Claire Bodson, Olivier Bonnaud, Victoria Bluck, Othmane Moumen

Producers - Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Denis Freyd

Production - Les Films du Fleuve, Archipel 35, France 2 Cinema, Proximus, RTBF

In Belgium, today, the destiny of young Ahmed, 13, caught between his imam's ideals of purity and life's temptations. How can love of life win out over his desire to put someone to death?

„When we finished writing this screenplay, we realized that, in a way, we had written the story of the fruitless attempts made by various characters to dissuade the young fanatic Ahmed, our main character, from carrying out his murderous plan. Whoever these characters may be – his teacher Inès, his mother, his brother, his sister, his caseworker, the judge, the psychologist at the detention centre, his lawyer, the owners of the farm where he is placed, their daughter Louise – not one of them manages to reach the hard, mysterious core of this boy ready to kill his teacher in the name of his religious convictions.”
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne

Watch in the Sofia IFF ONLINE programme at online.siff.bg

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS -

Cannes ’19 – Best Director

Program

16.07.2020
DOM NA KINOTO - 18.00 часа

Jean-Pierre § Luc Dardenne

Jean-Pierre Dardenne was born in 1951. Luc Dardenne was born in 1951. In 1974, they began shooting socially engaged videos and reports, going on to produce and direct documentaries. They moved into fiction with Falsch (1987). Their third film, La Promesse (1996), was successfully presented at the Directors’ Fortnight. In 1999, the Festival de Cannes awarded Rosetta with the Palme d’Or – as well as the Best Actress prize. The brothers were again in competition in 2002 with The Son for which won Best Actor. In 2005, they came away with their second Palme d’Or, for The Child. Lorna’s Silence was awarded Best Screenplay in 2008. Continuing their journey with the Festival de Cannes, in 2011 they were back with The Kid with a Bike, for which they received the Grand Prix.

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY

1978 The Song of the Nightingale (Le Chant du rossignol) – doc.
1981 (R… ne repond plus) – doc.
1987 Falsch (Falsch)
1992 I Think of You (Je pense a vous)
1996 The Promise (La Promesse)
1997 Gigi, Monica... and Bianca (Gigi, Monica... et Bianca) – doc.
1999 Rosetta (Rosetta)
2002 The Son (Le Fils)
2005 The Child (L’Enfant)
2008 Lorna's Silence (Le Silence de Lorna)
2011 The Kid with a Bike (Le gamin au vélo)
2014 Two Days, One Night (Deux jours, une nuit)
2016 The Unknown Girl (La fille inconnue)
2019 Young Ahmed

YOUNG AHMED / LE JEUNE AHMED

Belgium / France, 2019, 90′, color, movie

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS -

Program

Jean-Pierre § Luc Dardenne