1969 | Belgium, France | Fiction

Tori et Lokita (Tori and Lokita)

  • French English 89 mins
  • Director | Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
  • Writer | Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
  • Producer | Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Delphine Tomson, Denis Freyd

STATUS: Released

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From two-time Palme d’Or winners Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne comes the story of seventeen-year-old Lokita and twelve-year-old Tori, two immigrants to Belgium—from Cameroon and Benin, respectively—whose siblinglike bond is the only resource they can depend on in their struggle for survival on the margins of European society. The pair work as performers in a cheap trattoria, dealing drugs on the side, while balancing the demands of an indifferent bureaucracy. When Lokita is held captive in a marijuana grow house, events spiral out of control. Winner of the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Prize at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, the latest humanist drama from the Dardenne brothers is a heart-stopping thriller that casts an unflinching eye on the trials of the young and dispossessed.

Immigration Survival Realism Sibling Exploitation