72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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Les Chevaliers Blancs / The White Knights / The White Knights

Joachim Lafosse
Belgium - France      112 m.
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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
Screenplay
Joachim Lafosse, Bulle Decarpentries, Thomas Van Zuylen
Production
Versus Production (Belgium)
Jacques-Henri & Olivier Bronckart
Les Films du Worso (France)
Sylvie Pialat
Photography
Jean-François Hensgens
Edition
Sophie Vercruysse
Music
Christophe Giovanonni, Ingrid Simon, Valérie Le Docte, Thomas Gauder
Cast
Vincent Lindon, Louise Bourgoin, Valérie Donzelli, Reda Kateb
Format
DCP FOLLOWING DCI
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32, rue Washington
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Paris
France
Running Time
112 m.
Country
Belgium - France
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