Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne

Taking their deeply humane and political movies one step further, the Dardenne brothers cooperate with Marion Cotillard in this shocking travelogue of a woman who is trying to maintain her job and especially her dignity in the years of the economic crisis. — A young wife and mother works in a factory in a small Belgian town. In her absence, her colleagues realize that they can cover her shift with small overtimes and monetary bonuses. Her fate lies in the hands of 16 workers, whom she must convince to refuse monetary bonuses in order to keep her job. She enters a battle to save her seat, two days and one night, before the final vote. — Nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (Marion Cotillard) | Oscars | 2015 Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 2014 Best Film | Sydney Film Festival | 2014

Rosetta will take any job she can get, and the Dardenne brothers keep the camera so close to her that her panic becomes yours. It won them the first of their two Palmes d’Or, and Belgium went on to name a youth employment law after her. — Rosetta lives in a caravan on the edge of a Belgian town with her alcoholic mother, and all she wants is work, any work, on any terms. The film is only minutes old when she loses the job she has. When Riquet from the waffle stand offers her his friendship, what she’d really like is his job. — Golden Palm | Cannes Film Festival | 1999 Best Actress Awards (Emilie Dequenne) | Cannes Film Festival | 1999

Olivier Gourmet won a prize at Cannes for the Dardenne brothers’ harrowing mystery, in which a carpenter refuses to take a boy on as his apprentice and then starts following him. Five years earlier, Francis changed his life forever. — Olivier teaches carpentry at a centre for troubled teenagers. When Francis, who has only just arrived, asks to be taken on in his workshop, Olivier turns him down. Then he digs out the boy’s file, finds out where he sleeps and begins to follow him. — Special Prize of the Jury (Special Mention) | Cannes Film Festival | 2002 Best Actor Award (Olivier Gourmet) | Cannes FIlm Festival | 2002

The Dardenne brothers, masters of realism, won the Grand Prix at Cannes with their most moving film, about a lonely boy who has to learn to trust other people and himself. They had never used music in their films before, but this time they reach for Beethoven. — Twelve-year-old Cyril lives in a children’s home in Belgium, and his father has vanished without a trace, selling the boy’s bike on his way out. Cyril refuses to accept it and runs away, until Samantha, a hairdresser he barely knows, agrees to have him to stay at weekends. She also buys his bike back. — Grand Prize of the Jury | Cannes Film Festival | 2011

The Darden Brothers' movies always carry the undeniable stamp of their uncompromising morality, unique aesthetic and piercing sincerity. In "The Unknown Girl" they mix their unique cinematic character with the genre of thriller and make their vision even more powerful. — The doorbell of the practice of a young intern doctor rings but, after a long and busy day, she does not answer. The next morning the police inform her that an unknown woman was found dead. Full of guilt, she is determined to discover the woman's identity. She doesn't want her to be lost anonymously and disappear as if she never existed. — Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 2016