Young Ahmed

Name: Young Ahmed
Genre: Social Issues, Drama
Released: 2019
Duration: 85 min
Cast: Idir Ben Addi, Olivier Bonnaud, Myriem Akheddiou, Claire Bodson, Victoria Bluck

Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne20191h 25mSocial Issues, Drama

Why we chose it

The Dardenne brothers, leading figures of social cinema, won Best Director at Cannes for this story of a thirteen-year-old in the grip of religious fanaticism. There’s no forgiveness here, no excuse and no condemnation, only a boy nobody is ready to give up on.

Synopsis

Thirteen-year-old Ahmed lives in Belgium and, under the influence of the local imam, starts reading the Koran in a fanatical way. The imam has convinced him that his teacher, Inès, is an apostate, and Ahmed has stopped questioning anything at all. He tries to kill her, fails, and ends up in a juvenile detention centre.