4.2
182 reviews

Love According to Dalva

Emmanuelle Nicot20221h 23mDrama, Social Issues

Why we chose it

Growing up is hard, but for a twelve-year-old who has to unlearn, slowly, how to be a grown woman, becoming a child again is harder still. The director prepared by spending two weeks at an emergency shelter, where she met children taken from parents who had harmed them.

Synopsis

Dalva is twelve, lives alone with her father and dresses like a grown woman, until one night the police come into the house and hand her over to people she has never seen before. At the shelter, her care worker Jayden and her roommate Samia start, very carefully, to show her what was done to her. Dalva doesn’t want to hear a word of it.

Information

Director
Cast
Also known as
Dalva
Festival screenings
Cannes FF
Language
French
Country
France, Belgium
Subtitles
Greek, Polish

Cannes Film Festival

FIPRESCI Prize - Un Certain Regard

2022

Cannes Film Festival

Rising Star Award - Un Certain Regard (Zelda Samson)

2022

What others say

4.2
182 reviews

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