Young Ahmed
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1h 24m
Directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne • Drama • 2019 • Belgium • French, Arabic with English subtitles
Starring Idir Ben Addi, Myriem Akheddiou, Claire Bodson
Winner of the Best Director award at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, "Young Ahmed" is an intimate portrayal-in-furious-motion of a protagonist in crisis. The filmmakers' radical empathy alights on a Muslim teenager in a small Belgian town who has been radicalized by his Imam despite the desperate protestations of his mother, and who winds up hatching a murderous plot targeting his beloved teacher.
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