Belgium/France
THE YOUNG MOTHER'S HOME
105 MIN
2025
July 17th
20:30
Moscow Cinema, Red Hall
Tickets
Screenings
July 18th
17:30
Cinema House, Grand Hall
Jessica, Perla, Julie, Ariane and Naïma are housed in a shelter for young mothers. Five teenagers hoping for a better life for themselves and their babies.
Cast & Crew
Producers: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Delphine Tomson, Denis Freyd
Directors : Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Script : Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Director of Photography: Benoit Dervaux
Production Design: Igor Gabriel
Sound: Thomas Gauder
Editing: Marie-Hélène Dozo
Cast: Lucie Laruelle, Babette Verbeek, Janaina Halloy Fokan, Elsa Houben, Samia Hilmi
Production. Les Films du Fleuve, Archipel 35, The Reunion
Awards
Best Screenplay, Ecumenical Jury Prize, Cannes IFF, 2025
Cast & Crew
Producers: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Delphine Tomson, Denis Freyd
Directors : Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Script : Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Director of Photography: Benoit Dervaux
Production Design: Igor Gabriel
Sound: Thomas Gauder
Editing: Marie-Hélène Dozo
Cast: Lucie Laruelle, Babette Verbeek, Janaina Halloy Fokan, Elsa Houben, Samia Hilmi
Production. Les Films du Fleuve, Archipel 35, The Reunion
Awards
Best Screenplay, Ecumenical Jury Prize, Cannes IFF, 2025
Jean Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Jean-Pierre Dardenne was born in Engis in 1951 and Luc Dardenne in Awirs, in 1954. Jean Pierre studied dramatic arts at the Institut des Arts de Diffusion (Institute of Broadcasting Arts) in Brussels where he was taught by the director and poet Armand Gatti, thanks to whom he, and his brother Luc, would begin directing their first films. Luc, for his part, had studied philosophy and sociology. During the 1970s they would make a series of politically engaged documentary films before founding their own production company in 1975: Dérives. Some years later, in 1994, they would find their film company: Les Films du Fleuve. They made their first full-length film, Falsch, in 1987; it was an adaptation of a theatre play concerning the last surviving member of a Jewish family exterminated by the Nazis. The film would mark a major turning point in their career as their first fictional work. In 1992 they directed Je pense à vous, but would have to wait until 1996 before receiving wider recognition at the ‘Directors Fortnight’ in Cannes with La Promesse (The Promise). They received their first Palme d’Or at the Cannes FF for Rosetta in 1999. Three years later Olivier Gourmet received the Festival’s Best Actor award for his role in Le Fils (The Son). In 2005, the brothers received another Palme d’Or for L’Enfant (The Child), thus joining the very exclusive club of filmmakers to have won the Palme d’Or on two occasions. Furthermore, at Cannes, they would also receive the 2008 Best Screenplay Award for Le Silence de Lorna (Lorna’s Silence), a drama about clandestine immigrants; and the 2011 Grand Prix Award for Le Gamin au Vélo (Kid with a Bike). After this they went on to make Deux jours, une nuit (Two Days, One Night) with the actress Marion Cotillard and La Fille inconnue (The Unknown Girl) with Adèle Haenel. In 2019, they received the Cannes FF’s Best Director Award for Le Jeune Ahmed (Young Ahmed), a film about the destiny of a teenager embracing Islamic extremism. In 2022, they were awarded the Prize of the 75th Cannes FF for their film Tori et Lokita (Tori and Lokita), which tells the story of the friendship between two young migrants who came alone from Africa.
Filmography
Le chant du rossignol (doc., 1978), When Leon M.'s Boat Went Down the Meuse for the First Time (doc., 1979), For the War to End, the Walls Should Have Crumbled (doc., 1980), R... ne répond plus (doc., 1981), Lessons from a University on the Fly (doc., 1982), Falsch (1987), The World's Racing (short, 1987), I'm Thinking of You (1992), The Promise (1996), Rosetta (1999), The Son (2002), The Child (2005), Lorna’s Silence (2008), Kid with a Bike (2011), Two Days, One Night (2014), The Unknown Girl (2016), Young Ahmed (2019), Tori and Lokita (2022), The Young Mother's Home (2025).
Jean-Pierre Dardenne was born in Engis in 1951 and Luc Dardenne in Awirs, in 1954. Jean Pierre studied dramatic arts at the Institut des Arts de Diffusion (Institute of Broadcasting Arts) in Brussels where he was taught by the director and poet Armand Gatti, thanks to whom he, and his brother Luc, would begin directing their first films. Luc, for his part, had studied philosophy and sociology. During the 1970s they would make a series of politically engaged documentary films before founding their own production company in 1975: Dérives. Some years later, in 1994, they would find their film company: Les Films du Fleuve. They made their first full-length film, Falsch, in 1987; it was an adaptation of a theatre play concerning the last surviving member of a Jewish family exterminated by the Nazis. The film would mark a major turning point in their career as their first fictional work. In 1992 they directed Je pense à vous, but would have to wait until 1996 before receiving wider recognition at the ‘Directors Fortnight’ in Cannes with La Promesse (The Promise). They received their first Palme d’Or at the Cannes FF for Rosetta in 1999. Three years later Olivier Gourmet received the Festival’s Best Actor award for his role in Le Fils (The Son). In 2005, the brothers received another Palme d’Or for L’Enfant (The Child), thus joining the very exclusive club of filmmakers to have won the Palme d’Or on two occasions. Furthermore, at Cannes, they would also receive the 2008 Best Screenplay Award for Le Silence de Lorna (Lorna’s Silence), a drama about clandestine immigrants; and the 2011 Grand Prix Award for Le Gamin au Vélo (Kid with a Bike). After this they went on to make Deux jours, une nuit (Two Days, One Night) with the actress Marion Cotillard and La Fille inconnue (The Unknown Girl) with Adèle Haenel. In 2019, they received the Cannes FF’s Best Director Award for Le Jeune Ahmed (Young Ahmed), a film about the destiny of a teenager embracing Islamic extremism. In 2022, they were awarded the Prize of the 75th Cannes FF for their film Tori et Lokita (Tori and Lokita), which tells the story of the friendship between two young migrants who came alone from Africa.
Filmography
Le chant du rossignol (doc., 1978), When Leon M.'s Boat Went Down the Meuse for the First Time (doc., 1979), For the War to End, the Walls Should Have Crumbled (doc., 1980), R... ne répond plus (doc., 1981), Lessons from a University on the Fly (doc., 1982), Falsch (1987), The World's Racing (short, 1987), I'm Thinking of You (1992), The Promise (1996), Rosetta (1999), The Son (2002), The Child (2005), Lorna’s Silence (2008), Kid with a Bike (2011), Two Days, One Night (2014), The Unknown Girl (2016), Young Ahmed (2019), Tori and Lokita (2022), The Young Mother's Home (2025).
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