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Tori and Lokita (French: Tori et Lokita), is a 2022 Belgian-French drama film written, directed and produced by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. [3] The film premiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival on 24 May 2022, where it competed for the Palme d'Or [4] and won the festival's special 75th Anniversary Award. [5]
Mar 24, 2023 · Tori (Pablo Schils) is a boy from Benin who’s on the cusp of adolescence but speaks and carries himself like he’s younger. Lokita (Joely Mbundu) is the young woman from Cameroon who looks out for him. They claim to be orphans, but the movie pretty quickly establishes this as a cover story.
From two-time Palme d'Or-winners Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Tori and Lokita is a heart-stopping thriller that casts an unflinching eye on the trials of the young and dispossessed.
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- Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
- 2023-07-18
Mar 27, 2023 · Tori and Lokita is the latest gripping moral thriller from Belgian filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. The story is swift and relentless; it runs barely 90 minutes and never slows down...
Mar 24, 2023 · Lokita and Tori have come from Cameroon to live in Belgium. 16 and 11 respectively, Lokita is waiting for a work visa to support herself and Tori who is posing as her brother.
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- Drama
- Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Tori and Lokita. From two-time Palme d’Or winners Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne comes the story of seventeen-year-old Lokita and twelve-year-old Tori, two immigrants to Belgium—from Cameroon and Benin, respectively—whose siblinglike bond is the only resource they can depend on in their struggle for survival on the margins of European society.
Two illegal African immigrants in Belgium, Tori (11 years) and Lokita ( 16 years) pose as brother and sister to obtain legal papers for Lokita. They does shady drug work for chef Betim, where he also uses her sexually.
