Luc Dardenne
Brothers Jean-Pierre Dardenne (born 21 April 1951) and Luc Dardenne (born 10 March 1954), collectively referred to as the Dardenne brothers, are a Belgian filmmaking duo. They write, produce, and direct their films together.
The Dardennes began making narrative and documentary films in the late 1970s. They came to international attention in the mid-1990s with La Promesse (The Promise). They won their first major international film prize when Rosetta won the Palme d'Or at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival. Their work tends to reflect left-wing themes and points-of-view.
In 2002, Olivier Gourmet won Best Actor at Cannes for the Dardennes' Le Fils (The Son). In 2005, they won the Palme d'Or a second time for their film L'Enfant (The Child), putting them in an elite club, at the time, of only seven. Their film, Le Silence de Lorna (Lorna's Silence), won Best Screenplay at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and was released in Europe in the fall. Their film The Kid with a Bike won the Grand Prix at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, received one Golden Globe nomination and eight Magritte Award nominations. Jean-Pierre was the jury president for the Cinéfoundation and Short Films sections of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. In 2015, their film Deux jours, une nuit (Two Days, One Night) received nine Magritte Award nominations (winning three) and one Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for Marion Cotillard. Their 2019 feature Young Ahmed won them the Best Director Award at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. Their 2022 film Tori and Lokita won the 75th Anniversary Prize at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.
Creators of intensely naturalistic films about working class life in Belgium, brothers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne have created a notable body of work since 1996. With La Promesse (The Promise) (1996), Rosetta (1999), Le Fils (The Son) (2002), and L'Enfant (The Child) (2005), the Dardennes' films show young people at the fringes of society – immigrants, the unemployed, the inhabitants of shelters. Both Rosetta and L'Enfant were awarded the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, the only two Belgian films ever to earn the honor.
The Dardennes were born and raised in Seraing in Liege, in Wallonia, the French-speaking region of Belgium. Jean-Pierre (born in 1951) studied drama while Luc (born three years later) studied philosophy. In 1975 they established Derives, the production company that produced the roughly sixty documentary films they made before branching into feature films. These films covered such topics as Polish immigration, World War II resistance, a general strike in 1960. Their first two feature films, however, are rarely seen today: Falsch (1987) adapted from René Kalisky, featuring Bruno Cremer and Je pense a vous (1992). The Dardennes had their first international success with La Promesse (The Promise) in 1996. ...
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Movies (130)
The Green Eyes
2026 · Co-Producer
Butterfly Jam
2026 · Co-Producer
Vittorio De Sica: Staging Life
2026 · Self
Mr. Kim Goes to the Cinema
2026 · Self
Julian
2025 · Co-Producer
Adam's Sake
2025 · Producer
The Ozu Diaries
2025 · Self
Traffic
2025 · Producer
Bella
2025 · Producer
Bella
2025 · Producer
Young Mothers
2025 · Writer, Director, Producer
Manas
2025 · Associate Producer
The Most Precious of Cargoes
2024 · Co-Producer
Julie Keeps Quiet
2024 · Co-Producer
Foreign Language
2024 · Executive Producer
Emilia Pérez
2024 · Co-Producer
Holly
2023 · Co-Producer
Black Box
2023 · Co-Producer
La Favorita Del Rey
2023 · Co-Producer
The Line
2023 · Co-Producer
Saturn Bowling
2022 · Co-Producer
Tori and Lokita
2022 · Producer, Director, Screenplay
The Eden of La Ciotat
2022
Animals
2022 · Co-Producer
My Night
2022 · Co-Producer
Red Soil
2021 · Co-Producer
La Civil
2021 · Co-Producer
Jacques Audiard, le cinéma à cœur
2021 · Self - Interviewee
Atarrabi & Mikelats
2020 · Producer
Honey Cigar
2020 · Co-Producer
Young Ahmed
2019 · Producer, Director, Writer
Casanova, Last Love
2019 · Co-Producer
Dear Son
2018 · Producer
Fatwa
2018 · Co-Producer
How Fernando Pessoa Saved Portugal
2018 · Producer
Don't Shoot
2018 · Producer
Los hermanos Sisters
2018 · Thanks, Associate Producer, Co-Producer
Paul Sanchez Is Back!
2018 · Co-Producer
Carnivores
2018 · Co-Producer
The Elephant and the Butterfly
2017 · Producer
Plankton Salesmen
2017 · Self (archive footage)
Endangered Species
2017 · Co-Producer
Conexión de Amor
2016 · Co-Producer
Une vie contre l'oubli
2016
The Unknown Girl
2016 · Director, Producer, Writer
The Dancer
2016 · Co-Producer
Graduation
2016 · Co-Producer
Pericle
2016 · Co-Producer
The Son of Joseph
2016 · Co-Producer
Good Luck Sam
2016 · Producer
Hedi
2016 · Co-Producer
Behind the Clouds
2016 · Co-Producer
Les Cowboys
2015 · Co-Producer
Long Live the Bride
2015 · Co-Producer
French Cinema Mon Amour
2015 · Self
The Legend of the Palme d'Or
2015 · Self
Il était une fois... « Rosetta »
2015 · Self
The Dardennes on Leon M's Boat
2015 · Self
Two Days, One Night: On Location
2015 · Self
Diary of a Chambermaid
2015 · Co-Producer
40-Love
2014 · Producer
Wild Life
2014 · Co-Producer
Jean Pierre Et Luc Dardenne : Leçon de cinéma
2014 · Self - Guest
Two Days, One Night
2014 · Director, Producer, Writer
À ciel ouvert
2014 · Co-Producer
Playing Dead
2013 · Producer
Marina
2013 · Co-Producer
L'âge de raison, le cinéma des frères Dardenne
2013 · Self
Trespassing Bergman
2013 · Self
Ion
2013 · Producer
Beyond the Hills
2012 · Co-Producer
Rust and Bone
2012 · Co-Producer
A Special Day
2012 · Self
White Elephant
2012 · Thanks
Summer with Anton
2012 · Producer
The Minister
2011 · Producer
The Kid with a Bike
2011 · Director, Producer, Writer
Bloody Eyes
2011 · Story
Return to Seraing
2011 · Self - Interviewee
A Letter to Elia
2010 · Thanks
K.O.R.
2010 · Producer
The Front Line
2009 · Producer
Jean-Pierre et Luc Dardenne : devenir un être humain
2009 · Self
Children Without a Shadow
2009 · Executive Producer
Lorna's Silence
2008 · Director, Producer, Writer
Premier Jour
2008 · Producer
Vous êtes de la police ?
2007 · Co-Producer
To Each His Own Cinema
2007 · Director, Writer
Why We Can't See Each Other Outside When the Sun is Shining
2007 · Producer
Madonnas
2007 · Co-Producer
The Colonel
2006 · Producer
Rwanda, les collines parlent
2006 · Producer
The Home Cinema of the Dardenne Brothers
2006 · Self
The Child
2005 · Director, Producer, Writer
Il fare politica
2005 · Producer
Life, Differently
2005 · Executive Producer
The Ax
2005 · Producer
Être amoureux
2005 · Producer
J'aime la vie, je fais du vélo, je vais au cinéma
2005 · Self - Interviewee
The Sun Assassinated
2004 · Producer
La beauté du geste
2004 · Self
The Living World
2003 · Co-Producer
Stormy Weather
2003 · Producer
Chaplin Today: Modern Times
2003 · Self
The Son
2002 · Director, Writer, Producer
Romances de terre et d'eau
2002 · Producer
Brook by Brook
2002 · Co-Producer
First Love
2002 · Producer
Two Sisters
2002 · Producer
The Milk of Human Kindness
2001 · Co-Producer
La devinière
2000 · Line Producer
Les siestes Grenadine
1999 · Producer
Rosetta
1999 · Producer, Director, Writer
L'héritier
1999 · Executive Producer
Do You Remember Revolution?
1997 · Producer
Gigi, Monica... et Bianca
1997 · Executive Producer, Producer
La Promesse
1996 · Writer, Director, Producer
Faute de soleil
1995 · Co-Producer
Thinking of You
1993 · Director, Producer, Writer
Falsch
1987 · Director, Screenplay
Il court, il court, le monde
1987 · Director, Writer
The Writing on the Wall
1983 · Producer
Regard Jonathan/Jean Louvet, son oeuvre
1983 · Editor, Camera Operator, Director
Lessons from a University on the Fly
1982 · Director of Photography, Director, Writer
R... Doesn't Answer Anymore
1981 · Director of Photography, Editor, Director, Writer
For the War to End, the Walls Should Have Crumbled
1980 · Writer, Director
When Léon M.’s Boat Went Down the Meuse for the First Time
1979 · Sound, Writer, Director
Le Chant du rossignol
1978 · Director
Fonda
· Co-Producer
L'Or rouge
· Co-Producer
