HamptonsFilm is pleased to continue to curate the hit screening series NOW SHOWING, featuring acclaimed first-run, art house, independent, and world cinema.
On February 29, join HamptonsFilm + Guild Hall for a screening of YOUNG AHMED, the latest film from the Dardenne Brothers, who won the Best Director award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for this film.
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YOUNG AHMED
Guild Hall
Saturday, February 29 | 6:00 pm
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Directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne
(Belgium, 2019, 84 minutes)
“As starkly unsentimental as any of the Dardennes’ lean, urgent moral thrillers.” — The AV Club
The Dardenne Brothers won this year’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’ 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—the effect of fanaticism on the body and soul—the Dardennes here remind viewers why they continue to be at the center of 21st-century cinema. – New York Film Festival
Tickets are $15 for general admission and $13 for HamptonsFilm and Guild Hall members. HamptonsFilm members: purchase tickets online from Guild Hall and select ‘member price’ to receive your discount (your name will be checked against our member roster). Enjoy!