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Coward

Directed by Lukas Dhont

The young soldier Pierre wants to prove himself on the battlefield during the First World War. Behind the frontlines, he meets Francis, who is asked to find a way to boost morale.

Cast & crew

Cast

Pierre
Emmanuel Macchia
Francis
Valentin Campagne

Crew

Director

Lukas Dhont

Script

Lukas Dhont

Angelo Tijssens

Producer

Michiel Dhont

Coproducers

Juliette Schrameck

Laurette Schillings

Frans van Gestel

Sebastian Korteweg

Jacques-Henri Bronckart

Tatjana Kozar

DOP

Frank Van den Eeden SBC – NCS

Art Director

Eve Martin

Costume Designer

Isabel Van Renterghem

Sound Engineer

Yanna Soentjens

Music Supervisor

Pierre-Marie Dru

Makeup & hair

Evalotte Oosterop

SFX Makeup Designer

Pierre-Olivier Persin

Editor

Alain Dessauvage

Composer Original Music

Valentin Hadjadj

VFX Supervisor

Stefan Rycken

Sound Designer

Valerie de Loof

Sound Mixer

Cyril Holtz

Lukas Dhont about
Coward

Coward is the work of many and my most ambitious project yet. A film about love and death, creation and destruction. A film about survival and how, sometimes, even in darkness, something beautiful manages to grow. Coward is a tribute to those who, throughout the centuries, were sent to fight—and those who tried to escape it at any cost.

Our partners

Coward is a production by the Reunion, Lumen, Topkapi Films & Versus (Opus) in co-production with Cine+ OCS, France 2 Cinéma, VTM, RTBF, Proximus, BeTV & Orange. The film was produced in association with The Common Humanity Art Trust and Portobello Productions. The film was made with the support of the Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF) of the Flemish Government, the Screen Flanders economic fund, Screen Brussels, the Wallonia-Brussels Federation (FWB), Wallimage, CNC, PICTANOVO Hauts-de-France, Sacem, the Netherlands Film Fund, the Netherlands Film Production Incentive and EURIMAGES, and with the help of the Tax Shelter Measure of the Belgian Federal Government, Casa Kafka & Lumière Invest

In the Benelux, the film is distributed by Lumière and in France by Diaphana Distribution.

International sales are done by The Match Factory.

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