Tori & Lokita
Still from Tori & Lokita

Tori & Lokita

classified 18 (CTBA) S

part of Afrika Eye 2022

Film

Please note: This was screened in Nov 2022

Director
Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Cast
Amel Benaïssa, El Alami Bilel, Claire Bodson
Details
88 mins, & Subtitled, 2022, France
Primary language
French

The Dardenne brothers’ Cannes prize-winning film about the plight of two teenage African migrants struggling to survive in Belgium is characteristically gripping and deeply sobering.

In modern-day Belgium, a young woman called Lokita (Mbundu Joely) and a boy called Tori (Pablo Schils), have endured a terrible journey from West Africa together to the promised land of the EU and are now in a children’s home for immigrants. Lokita must now convince the authorities that Tori is her younger brother, whilst still needing to pay off the violent smugglers who transported them.

The Dardennes’ distinctively humane brand of realism has long focused on the vulnerable and dispossessed, but this account of life in today’s Europe – among their finest – is also their darkest. A parable of inequality and injustice among the marginalised, Tori and Lokita is a sombre reminder of what thousands of young people today are facing across Europe.

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