Released in 2014, Vivian Goffette’s Yam Dam followed a rural vet whose comfortable and well-ordered life was turned upside down by the arrival of a young woman from Burkina Faso. In Les Poings Serrés [+lee también:
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Everything changes, however, when Lucien’s grandmother dies and his father is granted temporary release from prison to attend her funeral. Seeing his father tearful, handcuffed and protected from the fury of the people by an impressive police escort is devastating for Lucien. He decides he wants to see his father again, despite the advice of those around him and at the risk of losing everything…

Playing the role of Lucien, we find a young man making his first screen appearance, Yanis Frish, who is supported by an impressive quartet of Belgian actors and actresses. Cécile will be played by the talented Lucie Debay, who is hitting screens in the autumn, toplining Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni’s first feature film Madly In Life [+lee también:
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Les Poings Serrés is produced by Dragons Films in co-production with Flanders-based Lunanime and with the support of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, Wallimage and the Vlaams Audiovisual Fund, as well as BeTv, Proximus and the Tax Shelter initiative via Umedia. The film will be distributed in Benelux by Lumière.