Tori and Lokita movie storyline. Two African immigrants, eleven-year-old Tori and sixteen-year-old Lokita, live by their wits in a Belgian city, posing as brother and sister. The two hang out at the restaurant of Betim, a man who uses his business to cover up a drug ring they courier, and sometimes pays Lokita for sexual favors. Lokita is trying to obtain a work visa with which she could support her and Tori, but she also has to deal with the debt contracted with the people who brought her in Belgium and also think about the mother and five brothers she left behind in Cameroon.
When Lokita’s papers are rejected again, she accepts Betim’s offer to go to work for a while, locked up in a hangar tending cannabis plantations. But she has to be separated from Tori, without even being able to call him, which is unbearable for both of them.
Tori hides in Betim’s car to find out where Lokita is, then he manages to find a way into the hangar. But on his second visit, they are both discovered by Betim. They flee, followed by Betim and his aide Luckas, who kills Lokita with two gunshots to the head, but cannot find Tori, who has remained hidden in the bushes.
Tori and Lokita (French: Tori et Lokita), is a 2022 Belgian-French drama film written, directed and produced by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. The film premiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival on 24 May 2022, where it competed for the Palme d’Or[4] and won the festival’s special 75th Anniversary Award.
Tori and Lokita (2023)
Directed by: Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Starring: Pablo Schils, Mbundu Joely, Charlotte De Bruyne, Tijmen Govaerts, Alban Ukaj, Marc Zinga as Firmin, Claire Bodson, Annette Closset, Thomas Doret, Amel Benaïssa, Leonardo Raco
Screenplay by: Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Production Design by: Igor Gabriel
Cinematography by: Benoît Dervaux
Film Editing by: Marie-Hélène Dozo
Costume Design by: Dorothée Guiraud
Art Direction by: Julien Denis, Paul Rouschop
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Cinéart (Belgium), Diaphana Distribution (France), Janus Films (United States)
Release Date: May 24, 2022 (Cannes), September 7, 2022 (Belgium), October 5, 2022 (France), March 24, 2023 (United States)
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