The Film Stage by Jared Mobarak
Aboubakr Bensaïhi and Martha Canga Antonio deliver unforgettable performances as these two teenagers in way over their head.
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Belgium · 2015
1h 35m
Director Bilall Fallah
Starring Martha Canga Antonio, Aboubakr Bensaïhi, Emmanuel Tahon, Théo Kabeya
Genre Action, Drama
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Mavela, 15 years old, is a Black Bronx. She falls madly in love with Marwan, an extremely charismatic member of a rival gang, the 1080s. The young couple is forced to make a brutal choice between gang loyalty and the love they have for one another. An impossible dilemma.
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The Film Stage by Jared Mobarak
Aboubakr Bensaïhi and Martha Canga Antonio deliver unforgettable performances as these two teenagers in way over their head.
Direction and cast pack a wallop.
This easily exportable, minority-driven drama has the potential to launch the careers of its young directors and cast.
Time Out London by Trevor Johnston
Against a backdrop of tensions between French and Flemish speakers, this is a forceful presentation of social divisions and the urgent need for change from within.
Screen International by Wendy Ide
Firecracker chemistry between the two leads makes this doomed Romeo and Juliet romance all the more tragically persuasive. Mavela’s kittenish little girl voice is utterly beguiling; Marwan’s adolescent swagger doesn’t quite conceal the sweet boy beneath.
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