The White Knights

Jacques Arnault, head of Sud Secours NGO, is planning a high impact operation: he and his team are going to exfiltrate 300 orphan victims of the Chadian civil war and bring them to French adoption applicants. Françoise Dubois, a journalist, is invited to come along with them and handle the media coverage for this operation. Completely immersed in the brutal reality of a country at war, the NGO members start losing their convictions and are faced with the limits of humanitarian intervention.

Keywords

  • Belgien
  • Focus: Joachim Lafosse
  • Joachim Lafosse
  • Vincent Lindon
  • Afrika
  • justice
  • struggle

Actors

  • Jean-Henri Compère
  • Valérie Donzelli
  • Reda Kateb
  • Louise Bourgoin
  • Bintou Rimtobaye
  • Vincent Lindon
  • Philippe Rebbot
  • Yannick Renier

Director

  • Joachim Lafosse

Drama

1h 52min

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NL

FR

Belgium
2015
Jacques Arnault, head of Sud Secours NGO, is planning a high impact operation: he and his team are going to exfiltrate 300 orphan victims of the Chadian civil war and bring them to French adoption applicants. Françoise Dubois, a journalist, is invited to come along with them and handle the media coverage for this operation. Completely immersed in the brutal reality of a country at war, the NGO members start losing their convictions and are faced with the limits of humanitarian intervention.

Jacques Arnault, head of Sud Secours NGO, is planning a high impact operation: he and his team are going to exfiltrate 300 orphan victims of the Chadian civil war and bring them to French adoption applicants. Françoise Dubois, a journalist, is invited to come along with them and handle the media coverage for this operation. Completely immersed in the brutal reality of a country at war, the NGO members start losing their convictions and are faced with the limits of humanitarian intervention.


Cast & Crew