Status : Completed
Country : France, Belgium
Originale Title : Les Chevaliers Blancs
Year : 2015
Language : French
Domestic Release : Le Pacte - January 20th, 2016
Genre : Drama
Runtime :112 min
Status : Completed
Country : France, Belgium
Originale Title : Les Chevaliers Blancs
Year : 2015
Language : French
Domestic Release : Le Pacte - January 20th, 2016
Genre : Drama
Runtime :112 min
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Synopsis
Critically acclaimed Joachim Lafosse brings to the screen the Zoe’s Ark controversy which made headlines in 2007 : a story about the limits of the right of interference.
Jacques Arnault, head of Sud Secours NGO, is planning a high impact operation : he and his team are going to exfiltrate 300 orphans victims of Chadian civil war and bring them to French adoption applicants. Françoise Dubois, a journalist, is invited to come along with them and handle the media coverage for this operation. Completely immersed in the brutal reality of a country at war, the NGO members start losing their convictions and are faced with the limits of humanitarian intervention.
DIRECTOR
JOACHIM LAFOSSE
CAST & CREW
DIRECTOR
Joachim Lafosse (Our Children)
SCREENWRITTERS
Joachim Lafosse
Bulle Decarpentries
Thomas Van Zuylen
Participation of Thomas Bidegain
CAST
Vincent Lindon (Mea Culpa, Welcome)
Louise Bourgoin (The Nun, Adèle Blanc-Sec)
Valérie Donzelli (Declaration of War)
Reda Kateb (Zero Dark Thirty, A Prophet)
PRODUCERS
Jacques-Henri & Olivier Bronckart for Versus production (Our Children)
Sylvie Pialat (French producer of the year) for Les Films du Worso (Stranger By The Lake)
FESTIVALS & AWARDS
40th Toronto International Film Festival (Platform) (2015)
San Sebastian IFF - Silver Shell for Best Director
Philadelphia IFF - Honorable mention from Narrative Competition
Cinepolitica Film Festival - Special Mention
AFI Fest
Black Nights Film Festival
Marrakech IFF
Goteborg IFF (2016)
Hong Kong IFF
San Francisco IFF
Filmfest Munchen IFF
Jerusalem IFF
Ljubljana International Film Festival
