Les chevaliers blancs
The White Knights- Director
- Joachim Lafosse
- Country
- Belgium, France
- Year
- 2015
- Genre
- Fiction
- Scriptwriters
- Joachim Lafosse, Bulle Decarpentries, Thomas Van Zuylen
- Cast
- Louise Bourgoin, Vincent Lindon, Valérie Donzelli, Reda Kateb, Stéphane Bissot, Catherine Salée, Yannick Renier
- Production
- Versus Production, Les Films du Worso, with co-production support from France 3 Cinéma
Storyline
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.
Festivals & Academy awards and others
San Sebastián International Film Festival 2015
Official Competition
Silver Shell for Best Director
Toronto International Film Festival 2015
Platform
Atlántida Film Fest (Filmin) 2016
Black Nights Film Festival 2015
AFI International Festival 2015
Releases
Spain (19 of August 2016)