Black

• director: Adil El Arbi & Bilall Fallah
• actor: Aboubakr Bensaihi Axel Massudi Emmanuel Tahon Marine Scandiuzzi Martha Canga Antonio Simon Frey
• writer: Adil El Arbi Bilall Fallah Hans Herbots Nele Meirhaeghe

Synopsis:

Worlds collide when Mavela (Martha Canga Antonio), a teenage girl with ties to Brussels’ Black Bronx gang, meets Marwan (Aboubakr Bensaihi), a member of a rival Moroccan gang, at a police station. Keenly aware of the consequences of getting involved with someone from another gang, they at first resist their attraction to one another, but they can only resist for so long. Just when they’ve started to imagine a different life for themselves, a terrifying incident reminds Mavela where she belongs — and, more precisely, to whom. In order to break free, Mavela and Marwan will have to betray the very loyalties on which their gangs are founded. And they know what lies ahead for them if they don’t. [Synopsis courtesy of TIFF]

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