Alice and the Mayor (Alice et le maire) will open the 2019 AFI European Union Film Showcase, highlighting 46 films representing all 28 EU member states.
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YOUNG AHMED (LE JEUNE AHMED)
YOUNG AHMED (LE JEUNE AHMED)
NAME OF FILM: YOUNG AHMED (LE JEUNE AHMED)
DIRECTOR(S): Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
STARRING: Idir Ben Addi, Olivier Bonnaud, Myriem Akheddiou
GENRE: Drama Film
SYNOPSIS: The Dardenne Brothers won this year’s Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival for this brave new work, another intimate portrayal-in-furious-motion of a protagonist in crisis. The filmmakers’ radical empathy alights on a Muslim teenager (extraordinary first-time actor Idir Ben Addi) in a small Belgian town who is being gradually radicalized into extremism despite the desperate protestations of his single mother (Claire Bodson), and who winds up hatching a murderous plot targeting his beloved teacher (Myriem Akheddiou). Taking a serious view of a difficult issue—the effect of fanaticism on the body and soul—the Dardennes here remind viewers why they continue to be at the center of 21st-century cinema.
