, the latest film from Belgian directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne to bow at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Best Director prize this year. The film is having its North American premiere at the upcoming COLCOA French Film Festival in Los Angeles, and it will hit theaters in early 2020, followed by VOD .
The pic centers on a Belgian-Arab Muslim teenager named Ahmed who lives in a small town with a secular single mother and siblings. He has frighteningly become radicalized through the influence of a magnetic, local extremist imam and becomes fixated with killing his female teacher in the name of his religious convictions.
Kino Lorber SVP Wendy Lidell and Wild Bunch’s Eva Diederix made the deal along with CAA Media Finance. “We are proud to present to US audiences the latest masterwork from Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne,” Lidell said of the brothers, two-time winners of Cannes’ Palme d’Or. “Like all their great films,portrays with great empathy a character grappling with a moral dilemma, and does so by telling an engrossing story bursting with suspense.”