Jean-Pierre Dardenne

A joinery instructor at a rehab center refuses to take a new teen as his apprentice, but then begins to follow the boy through the hallways and streets.

Dir. Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne · With Olivier Gourmet, Morgan Marinne, Isabella Soupart

Igor, aged 15, and his father Roger deal in housing and peddling illicit labor in the outlying districts of Liege, Belgium. Scams, lies and swindling rule their lives. When one of his father’s illegal workers gets injured on the job and asks Igor to promise to take care of his wife and baby, Igor finds himself at a crossroad. He wants to keep the promise, but the price would be to betray his father.

Dir. Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne · With Jérémie Renier, Olivier Gourmet, Assita Ouedraogo

Young, impulsive Rosetta lives a hard and stressful life as she struggles to support herself and her alcoholic mother. Refusing all charity, she is desperate to maintain a dignified job.

Dir. Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne · With Émilie Dequenne, Olivier Gourmet, Fabrizio Rongione

Abandoned by his father, a young boy is left in the hands of an unqualified childcare provider.

Dir. Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne · With Cécile de France, Thomas Doret, Jérémie Renier

A poor young Belgian mother wants her petty thief of a boyfriend to be gainfully employed to raise their newborn child, but he has other ideas.

Dir. Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne · With Jérémie Renier, Déborah François, Olivier Gourmet

Sandra is a young woman who has only one weekend to convince her colleagues they must give up their bonuses in order for her to keep her job — not an easy task in this economy.

Dir. Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne · With Marion Cotillard, Fabrizio Rongione, Catherine Salée

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.

Dir. Michael Cimino, Luc Dardenne, Atom Egoyan, Chen Kaige, Manoel de Oliveira, Bille August, Andrei Konchalovsky, Claude Lelouch, Walter Salles, Tsai Ming-liang, Theo Angelopoulos, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Olivier Assayas, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Takeshi Kitano, Roman Polanski, Gus Van Sant, Abbas Kiarostami, David Cronenberg, David Lynch, Jane Campion, Raymond Depardon, Amos Gitai, Nanni Moretti, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Elia Suleiman, Aki Kaurismäki, Raúl Ruiz, Lars von Trier, Wong Kar-Wai, Ken Loach, Wim Wenders, Youssef Chahine, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Zhang Yimou · With Golshifteh Farahani, Taraneh Alidoosti, Pegah Ahangarani

Lorna is a young Albanian woman in a marriage of convenience with Claudy, a heroin addict. Just as Lorna is about to be granted Belgian citizenship, Claudy finds the strength to detox; this presents a problem not only for Lorna, but for the criminal who brokered the deal.

Dir. Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne · With Arta Dobroshi, Jérémie Renier, Fabrizio Rongione

Jenny, a young doctor who feels guilty after a young woman she refused to see winds up dead a few days later, decides to find out who the girl was, after the police can't identify the young woman.

Dir. Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne · With Adèle Haenel, Olivier Bonnaud, Jérémie Renier

A young Belgian is incited by his imam to view a teacher as an apostate and assassinate her; after he fails, he is sent to juvenile reform.

Dir. Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne · With Idir Ben Addi, Olivier Bonnaud, Myriem Akheddiou