Director: Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne

Cast: Pablo Schils, Joely Mbundu, Claire Bodson

Rating: PG13.

In modern-day Belgium, a young woman called Lokita and a boy called Tori, both from Benin, have endured a terrible journey to the promised land of the EU and are now in a children’s home for immigrants. To get their residence papers, they have to claim to be brother and sister; no great strain, because these young people are now as passionately close as any siblings. But bureaucracy and official suspicion wreck their dreams. Desperate for cash and still owing money to people traffickers, Tori gets a job selling drugs under cover of delivering pizzas and Lokita agrees to be taken blindfold by criminals to a secret cannabis farm, a truly terrifying place in the middle of nowhere. She is there locked in for three months tending the plants under the unbearably hot lights, with her phone taken away, on the promise of payment when the time is up.

The screening will be preceded by a video message by the Dardenne brothers.

88mins
In French with English subtitles 
Belgium, France, 2022
Drama 

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