Tori and Lokita

Tori and 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 and won the festival's special 75th Anniversary Award. Plot 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 to Belgium, and 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.