Our Children

CANNES 2012 HIGHLIGHT: Joachim Lafosse's Our Children (Belgium, 2012) - Our Children is called A Perdre La Raison in France, and viewers can quickly make the connection when its opening shots depict four small coffins being raised onto a plane bound for Morocco as a mother weeps in her hospital bed. It’s immediately clear that Joachim Lafosse is about to tackle one of cinema’s, and society’s, last taboos, the increasing numbers of parents who murder their own small children. SOURCE: SCREEN.