Alice stands before the judge today: the future of her children is at stake, as her guardianship is being challenged. Will she be able to protect them before it’s too late? Awarded a Special Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival, this Belgian courtroom drama is one of the year’s most unexpected and gripping works about family, abuse, and responsibility.

Q&A with director Charlotte Devillers after the screening.

Berlin International Film Festival 2025 - Perspectives: Special Mention

Arnaud Dufeys is a Belgian filmmaker and producer who graduated from the Institut des Arts de Diffusion in Brussels. His short film Invincible Summer was selected for the Berlinale Generation 14plus program in 2024. His debut feature, We Believe You, co-directed with Charlotte Devillers, was also selected for the Berlinale.

Charlotte Devillers is a writer-director, she used her personal and professional experience in healthcare to inform her debut feature film On vous croit which she has co-written and co-directed with Arnaud Dufeys. The insight gained from her day-to-day work in a sexual health clinic is the basis for the second feature film which the two are developing, Pleasure.

Atoms (2012) - short
Invincible Summer (2024) - short

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Original title: On vous croit
Director: Arnaud Dufeys, Charlotte Devillers
Cast: Myriem Akheddiou,  Laurent Capelluto,  Natali Broods, Ulysse Goffin
Cinematography: Pépin Struye
Screenwriter: Arnaud Dufeys, Charlotte Devillers
Producer: Arnaud Dufeys, Arnaud Ponthière
Editor: Nicolas Bier
Music: Lolita Del Pino
Hungarian Distributor: Budapest Film
Colour: colour
Run time: 78 mins

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