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.
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.
DIRECTOR
Joachim Lafosse (Our Children)
SCREENWRITTERS
Joachim Lafosse
Bulle Decarpentries
Thomas Van Zuylen
Participation of Thomas Bidegain
CAST
Vincent Lindon (Mea Culpa, Welcome)
Louise Bourgoin (The Nun, Adèle Blanc-Sec)
Valérie Donzelli (Declaration of War)
Reda Kateb (Zero Dark Thirty, A Prophet)
PRODUCERS
Jacques-Henri & Olivier Bronckart for Versus production (Our Children)
Sylvie Pialat (French producer of the year) for Les Films du Worso (Stranger By The Lake)
40th Toronto International Film Festival (Platform) (2015)
San Sebastian IFF - Silver Shell for Best Director
Philadelphia IFF - Honorable mention from Narrative Competition
Cinepolitica Film Festival - Special Mention
AFI Fest
Black Nights Film Festival
Marrakech IFF
Goteborg IFF (2016)
Hong Kong IFF
San Francisco IFF
Filmfest Munchen IFF
Jerusalem IFF
Ljubljana International Film Festival
"The White Knights” succeeds in building a critical argument while refusing the easy complacency of judgment" VARIETY
“A provocative and probing new drama” THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"Vincent Lindon delivers a strong, ambiguous performance” NOW TORONTO
Variety Review
Screen Review
Press Kit
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