After 15 years of living together, Marie (Berenice Bejo) and Boris (Cedric Kahn) decide to get a divorce - but the separation proves far from simple.
Based on true events celebrated director Joachim Lafosse's intense multi-layered dissection of an unorthodox family unit created an unprecedented buzz at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and won Emilie Dequenne the prestigious Best Actress Award. Our Children was critically heralded as one of the top art-house world cinema films of 2012 and Belgium's official entry for the 2013 Academy Awards. Young and full of life Murielle (Emilie Dequenne Rosetta) has a promising future ahead of her when she meets and falls head over heels for Mounir (Tahar Rahim A Prophet). A wedding soon follows and the happy couple quickly set about preparing to make a family. However with family come ties and none come as tight as that between Mounir and his adoptive father (Niels Arestrup A Prophet Sarah's Key). As Murielle continues to bring new life into the family frictions between Mounir and Doctor Pinget reach boiling point. Helpless to extract her husband and children from the wealthy nest that Doctor Pinget has provided for them Murielle is drawn into an unhealthy family dynamic. There is only one way out of this nightmare and for Murielle all sense of reasoning begins to abandon her. Special Features: Interview with the Director Joachim Lafosse
A tense familial drama focusing on two twins and their incessant feuding after the separation of their parents.
Based on true events celebrated director Joachim Lafosse's intense multi-layered dissection of an unorthodox family unit created an unprecedented buzz at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and won Emilie Dequenne the prestigious Best Actress Award. Our Children was critically heralded as one of the top art-house world cinema films of 2012 and Belgium's official entry for the 2013 Academy Awards. Young and full of life Murielle (Emilie Dequenne Rosetta) has a promising future ahead of her when she meets and falls head over heels for Mounir (Tahar Rahim A Prophet). A wedding soon follows and the happy couple quickly set about preparing to make a family. However with family come ties and none come as tight as that between Mounir and his adoptive father (Niels Arestrup A Prophet Sarah's Key). As Murielle continues to bring new life into the family frictions between Mounir and Doctor Pinget reach boiling point. Helpless to extract her husband and children from the wealthy nest that Doctor Pinget has provided for them Murielle is drawn into an unhealthy family dynamic. There is only one way out of this nightmare and for Murielle all sense of reasoning begins to abandon her. Special Features: Interview with the Director Joachim Lafosse
In war torn Chad, Africa, hordes of children are left parentless by the on-going conflict. NGO Group Move The Children' touch down with one objective: to rescue the orphans and bring them back to France for adoption. Journalist Francoise (Valérie Donzelli, Declaration of War) is invited to document their work, but as tensions in the group grow increasingly fraught, she starts to question the limits of humanitarian intervention as the line between adoption and abduction begins to blur. Filmmaker Joachim Lafosse, heralded for his powerful dramas such as Private Property and Our Children, directs a deeply ambiguous drama based on a true story, with Vincent Landon (Winner of Best Actor at Cannes 2015, The Measure of Man) and Reda Kateb (A Prophet).
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