{"id":25710,"date":"2026-01-06T21:21:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T21:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?p=25710"},"modified":"2026-01-06T21:21:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T21:21:38","slug":"young-ahmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/young-ahmed\/","title":{"rendered":"YOUNG AHMED"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-25711\" src=\"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/youngahmed_dvd-248x350.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/youngahmed_dvd-248x350.jpg 248w, https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/youngahmed_dvd-600x847.jpg 600w, https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/youngahmed_dvd.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/h2>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<h2>YOUNG AHMED<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">| 2020 \u2013 84&#8242; &#8211;\u00a0 A Belgium\/France Co-Production. Drama, Co-Produced by France.<br \/>\nWritten by:\u00a0Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne.<br \/>\nDirected by:\u00a0Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne.<br \/>\nStarring:\u00a0Idir Ben Addi,\u00a0Olivier Bonnaud,\u00a0Myriem Akheddiou, Victoria Bluck, Claire Bodson, Othmane Moumen.<br \/>\nOfficial Selections: Cannes International Film Festival 2019 (Winner Best Director), New York Film Festival 2019. C\u00e9sars\u00a0Awards 2020: Nominated\u00a0for Best Foreign Film.<br \/>\nIn French with English\u00a0subtitles.<br \/>\nA\u00a0Kino Lorber Films release. |<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">The Dardenne Brothers won this year&#8217;s Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival for this brave new work, another intimate portrayal-in-furious-motion of a protagonist in crisis. The filmmakers&#8217; radical empathy alights on a Muslim teenager (extraordinary first-time actor Idir Ben Addi) in a small Belgian town who has been radicalized by his Imam despite the desperate protestations of his single mother (Claire Bodson), and who winds up hatching a murderous plot targeting his beloved teacher (Myriem Akheddiou). Taking a serious view of a difficult issue&#8211;the effect of fanaticism on the body and soul&#8211;the Dardennes here remind viewers why they continue to be at the center of 21st-century cinema. &#8211; New York Film Festival.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/athome.fandango.com\/content\/browse\/details\/Young-Ahmed\/1422957\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YOUNG AHMED | 2020 \u2013 84&#8242; &#8211;\u00a0 A Belgium\/France Co-Production. Drama, Co-Produced by France. Written by:\u00a0Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne. Directed by:\u00a0Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne. Starring:\u00a0Idir Ben Addi,\u00a0Olivier Bonnaud,\u00a0Myriem Akheddiou, Victoria Bluck, Claire Bodson, Othmane Moumen. Official Selections: Cannes International Film Festival 2019 (Winner Best Director), New York Film Festival 2019. C\u00e9sars\u00a0Awards 2020: Nominated\u00a0for Best Foreign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25711,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-co-produced-by-france","category-drama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25712,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25710\/revisions\/25712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}