Director: Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah
Stars: Sanâa Alaoui, Martha Canga Antonio, Aboubakr Bensaihi
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium
A 15-year-old girl in a black gang in Brussels must choose between loyalty and love when she falls for a Moroccan boy from a rival gang. The city of Brussels, plagued by high rates of youth unemployment, is home to nearly forty street gangs, and the number of young people drawn into the city’s gang culture increases each year. It’s in this criminal milieu that directing duo Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah set Black, a pulse-pounding contemporary take on a Shakespearean tragedy.