Synopsis
Tori and Lokita (Tori et Lokita, 2022) is a social drama from the Dardenne brothers, and you can watch it online on iFILM. Two teenage migrants from Africa cling to each other in present-day Belgium, passing themselves off as brother and sister. He's about ten, she's around seventeen.
Tori has a residence permit; Lokita does not. She trails through immigration offices trying to prove their kinship and secure her papers, taking any job she can find to survive and pay off the smugglers she still owes. The tighter the trap pulls, the clearer it gets: these two have no one in the world but each other.
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne shoot it their usual way — handheld camera, no sentimentality, not a note of music laid over the pain. The film took a special prize marking the 75th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival. It's hard and lean at 88 minutes, but it lingers; not a relaxing night in, rather one for viewers ready to look straight at it. Stream Tori and Lokita online on iFILM.
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