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Completed - FRENCH - Drama, Action/Adventure

Log Line

Critically acclaimed 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.

Year of production : 2014

Director(s) : Joachim LAFOSSE
Writer(s) : Joachim LAFOSSE, Bulle DECARPENTRIES, Thomas VAN ZUYLEN
Cast : Vincent LINDON, Louise BOURGOIN, Valérie DONZELLI, Réda KATEB

Producer(s) : Jacques-Henri BRONCKART (VERSUS PRODUCTION), Olivier BRONCKART (VERSUS PRODUCTION), Sylvie PIALAT (LES FILMS DU WORSO)

Synopsis

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.

Production

Country(ies) : BELGIUM, FRANCE

Financing plan : Script Consultant - Thomas Bidegain
Stills - Versus production / Les Films du Worso © Fabrizio Maltese

BELGIUM Jan 27, 2016 O'BROTHER DISTR
BRAZIL IMOVISION
CANADA AXIA FILMS INC
NETHERLAND AMSTELFILM
SPAIN Aug 19, 2016 GOLEM DISTRIBUC
UNITED KIN STUDIOCANAL (UK


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Festivals and Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2015 Platform
San Sebastian FF 2015 - Official selection (Silver Shell for Best Director)


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