Edition: First Cut Lab Belgium 2023
The Virgin and Child
Belgium
Production company: Playtime Films
World premiere: Ostend Film Festival 2024 – COOP! Competition
Synopsis
Avesta, a young Kurdish-Yazidi woman and ISIS survivor, winds up in Brussels to wreak vengeance upon the man who enslaved her. Between a struggle for justice that sees her revisit her darkest hours, and having to mother an unwelcome child, Avesta fights to be heard whatever it takes.
CREDITS
Director : Binevsa Berivan
Writers : Binevsa Berivan, David Lambert
Editor: Yannick Leroy
Producers: Isabel de la Serna, Matthieu Frances
Co-Producer: Xavier Rombaut
Cast: Hêvîn Tekîn, Laëtitia Eïdo, Isabelle De Hertogh, Farida Ouchani, Barbara Sarafian, Flonja Khodeli, Roda Fawaz, Kris Cuppens, Denis Mpunga, Zirek Ahmet