Animals (2022)
Brahim is a young man, and secretly gay. At his mother’s birthday party, tensions around his unaccepted sexuality become unbearable. Brahim flees the oppressive family home into the night, where a terrible encounter awaits...
- Date of release
- 2022-06-23
- TMDB
- 5.1 / 10 (17)
- Runtime
- 1h 31m
- Genres
- Crime, Drama
- Director
- Nabil Ben Yadir
Casting
- Soufiane Chilah — Brahim
- Gianni Guettaf — Loïc
- Vincent Overath — Geoffroy
- Serkan Sancak — Milos
- Lionel Maisin — Christophe
- Madeleine Baudot — Melissa
- Anne-Marie Loop — Brahim's mother
- Amid Chakir — Brahim's father
- Salim Talbi — Mehdi
- Raphaël Lamaassab — Yassine
- Camille Freychet — Young girl in the street
- Alain Bellot — Husband of Loïc's father
Interesting facts
- Filmed in: Belgium
Animals is a 2021 psychological thriller film directed by Nabil Ben Yadir. It stars Soufiane Chilah and was written by Antoine Cuypers and Ben Yadir, who also produced alongside Benoit Roland. The film is based on the 2012 murder of gay man Ihsane Jarfi in Liège. The murder was denounced as a hate crime and became the first case of homophobic violence recognized by law in Belgium.
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