''Playground'' (french: Un monde) is a 2021 Belgian
drama film
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directed by
Laura Wandel
Laura Wandel is a Belgian film director and screenwriter.
She made her feature-length debut in 2021 with ''Playground'', a drama film following the life of a seven-year-old girl dealing with the children's and adult's worlds. ''Playground'' pre ...
. In June 2021, the film was selected to compete in the ''
Un Certain Regard
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The section presents 20 films w ...
'' section at the
2021 Cannes Film Festival
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. At Cannes, it won the
FIPRESCI Prize
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in the ''Un Certain Regard'' section.
''Playground'' received the
André Cavens Award for Best Film
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by the
Belgian Film Critics Association
The Belgian Film Critics Association (french: Union de la critique de cinéma, UCC) is an organization of film critics from publications based in Brussels, Belgium.
History
The Belgian Film Critics Association was founded in the early 1950s in Br ...
.
At the
11th Magritte Awards
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, it was nominated for ten awards and won seven, including
Best First Feature Film and
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* Academy Award for Best Director
* BA ...
for Wandel.
It was selected as the Belgian entry for the
Best International Feature Film at the
94th Academy Awards
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.
Plot
A seven-year-old girl witnesses her older brother being bullied. Though he swears her to secrecy, she tells their father and soon finds herself the victim of bullying as well.
Cast
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Maya Vanderbeque as Nora
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Günter Duret as Abel
*
Karim Leklou
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Given name ...
as Finnigan
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Laura Verlinden as Agnes
*
Lena Girard Voss as Clémence
*
Thao Maerten as David
Accolades
See also
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References
External links
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2021 films
2021 drama films
2020s French-language films
Belgian drama films
Films about bullying
Magritte Award winners
French-language Belgian films
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