The Promise
La Promesse
Awards (click to collapse)
Brussels Film Festival, Belgium (1997) – Winner: Best Belgian Film
Namur International Festival of French-Speaking Film, Belgium (1996) – Winner: Audience Award
Cannes Film Festival, France (1996) – Nominated: SACD Prize: Directors' Fortnight
César Awards, France (1997) – Nominated: Best Foreign Film
Satellite Awards, USA (1998) – Nominated: Golden Satellite Award: Best Motion Picture, Foreign Language
Guldbagge Awards, Sweden (1998) – Nominated: Best Foreign Film
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, USA (1997) – Nominated: Best Foreign Film
Namur International Festival of French-Speaking Film, Belgium (2000) – Winner: Bayard of the Bayards
Namur International Festival of French-Speaking Film, Belgium (1996) – Winner: Golden Bayard: Best Film
Namur International Festival of French-Speaking Film, Belgium (1996) – Winner: Golden Bayard: Best Actor
A Cannes film festival prize winner and considered more ‘real’ than many documentaries, La Promesse engages and convinces with its evocative portrayal of the archetypal struggle between father and son, between right and wrong. Igor’s father trades in illegal immigrants. When Amidu, from Burkina Faso, falls and dies in their employ, Igor must reconcile his father’s imposed code of deception and silence with his maturing sense of duty to the man’s wife and child. The Dardenne brothers are masters of the documentary genre with 60 films to their multi-award winning credit. In this realistic film, the fiction is subtly transposed into an emotionally identifiable act of truth.
Film Stills
Previous Festivals
Namur Int’l Festival of French-Speaking Film (1996, 2000), Belgium
Cannes Film Festival, France (1996)
Brussels FF, Belgium (1997)
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