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Title The white knights = les chevaliers blancs / un film de Joachim Lafosse; produced by Belgium's Versus Production and Les Films du Worso in France, with co-production support from France 3 Cinéma, RTBF, Belgacom and Prime Time
Published [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2018
Madman Entertainment, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (streaming video file) (113 min.) : flv file, sound
Summary Jacques Arnault, head of Move For Kids NGO, is planning a high impact operation: he and his team are going to infiltrate 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. Nominated for the Platform Prize at the Toronto International Film Festival. Winner of Best Director and nominated for Best Film at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. "A feature that blurs the line between right and wrong, creating an internal conflict that makes for a hugely provocative production."--Stefan Pape, HeyUGuys
"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."--Unifrance website
Credits Screenwriter/director, Joachim Lafosse ; screenwriter, Bulle Decarpentries, Thomas van Zuylen, Zélia Abadie, Thomas Bidegain (participant) ; producer, Jacques-Henri Bronckart, Olivier Bronckart, Sylvie Pialat ; cinematographer, Jean-François Hensgens ; editor, Sophie Vercruysse
Performer Louise Bourgoin, Vincent Lindon, Valérie Donzelli
Notes Motion picture originally produced in Belgium and France in 2015
This film is also supported by the Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel of the Federation Wallonia-Brussels and the Belgian Federal Government Tax Shelter
In French with English subtitles
Winner, San Sebastián International Film Festival 2016 (Best Director)
Subject Arche de Zoé (Organization) -- Drama
SUBJECT Arche de Zoé (Organization) fast
Subject Foreign language films.
Humanitarian assistance, French -- Corrupt practices -- Drama
Children and war -- Chad -- Drama
Kidnapping -- Drama
Motion pictures.
Kidnapping
Children and war
Foreign language films
Motion pictures
Chad
Genre/Form Drama
Feature films
Feature films.
Form Streaming video
Author Lafosse, Joachim, 1975- filmmaker, film director, screenwriter.
Decarpentries, Bulle, screenwriter.
Van Zuylen, Thomas, screenwriter.
Bourgoin, Louise, 1981- actor.
Lindon, Vincent, actor.
Donzelli, Valérie, actor
Kateb, Reda, actor.
Pialat, Sylvie, producer.
Bronckart, Jacques-Henri, producer.
Bronckart, Olivier, producer.
Motion picture adaptation of (work): Pinte, François-Xavier. Sarkozy dans l'avion?
Madman Entertainment Australia (Firm), distributor.
Kanopy (Firm), distributor.
Other Titles Chevaliers blancs