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. ... Source: Article "Dardenne brothers" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Filmography

• 2026Butterfly Jam — Co-Producer
• 2026The Green Eyes — Co-Producer
• 2025Adam's Sake — Producer
• 2025Bella — Producer
• 2025Bella — Producer
• 2025Julian — Co-Producer
• 2025Manas — Associate Producer
• 2025Traffic — Producer
• 2025Young Mothers — Writer, Director, Producer
• 2024Emilia Pérez — Co-Producer
• 2024Foreign Language — Executive Producer
• 2024Julie Keeps Quiet — Co-Producer
• 2024The Most Precious of Cargoes — Co-Producer
• 2023Black Box — Co-Producer
• 2023Holly — Co-Producer
• 2023Jeanne du Barry — Co-Producer
• 2023The Line — Co-Producer
• 2022Animals — Co-Producer
• 2022My Night — Co-Producer
• 2022Saturn Bowling — Co-Producer
• 2022The Eden of La Ciotat
• 2022Tori and Lokita — Producer, Director, Screenplay
• 2021La Civil — Co-Producer
• 2021Red Soil — Co-Producer
• 2020Atarrabi & Mikelats — Producer
• 2020Honey Cigar — Co-Producer
• 2019Casanova, Last Love — Co-Producer
• 2019Young Ahmed — Producer, Director, Writer
• 2018Carnivores — Co-Producer
• 2018Dear Son — Producer
• 2018Don't Shoot — Producer
• 2018Fatwa — Co-Producer
• 2018How Fernando Pessoa Saved Portugal — Producer
• 2018Paul Sanchez Is Back! — Co-Producer
• 2018The Sisters Brothers — Thanks, Associate Producer, Co-Producer
• 2017Endangered Species — Co-Producer
• 2017The Elephant and the Butterfly — Producer
• 2016Behind the Clouds — Co-Producer
• 2016Good Luck Sam — Producer
• 2016Graduation — Co-Producer
• 2016Hedi — Co-Producer
• 2016Pericle — Co-Producer
• 2016Planetarium — Co-Producer
• 2016The Dancer — Co-Producer
• 2016The Son of Joseph — Co-Producer
• 2016The Unknown Girl — Director, Producer, Writer
• 2016Une vie contre l'oubli
• 2015Diary of a Chambermaid — Co-Producer
• 2015Les Cowboys — Co-Producer
• 2015Long Live the Bride — Co-Producer
• 201440-Love — Producer
• 2014Two Days, One Night — Director, Producer, Writer
• 2014Wild Life — Co-Producer
• 2014À ciel ouvert — Co-Producer
• 2013Ion — Producer
• 2013Marina — Co-Producer
• 2013Playing Dead — Producer
• 2012Beyond the Hills — Co-Producer
• 2012Rust and Bone — Co-Producer
• 2012Summer with Anton — Producer
• 2012White Elephant — Thanks
• 2011Bloody Eyes — Story
• 2011The Kid with a Bike — Director, Producer, Writer
• 2011The Minister — Producer
• 2010A Letter to Elia — Thanks
• 2010K.O.R. — Producer
• 2009Children Without a Shadow — Executive Producer
• 2009The Front Line — Producer
• 2008Lorna's Silence — Director, Producer, Writer
• 2008Premier Jour — Producer
• 2007Madonnas — Co-Producer
• 2007To Each His Own Cinema — Director, Writer
• 2007Vous êtes de la police ? — Co-Producer
• 2007Why We Can't See Each Other Outside When the Sun is Shining — Producer
• 2006Rwanda, les collines parlent — Producer
• 2006The Colonel — Producer
• 2005Il fare politica — Producer
• 2005Life, Differently — Executive Producer
• 2005The Ax — Producer
• 2005The Child — Director, Producer, Writer
• 2005Être amoureux — Producer
• 2004The Sun Assassinated — Producer
• 2003Stormy Weather — Producer
• 2003The Living World — Co-Producer
• 2002Brook by Brook — Co-Producer
• 2002First Love — Producer
• 2002Romances de terre et d'eau — Producer
• 2002The Son — Writer, Director, Producer
• 2002Two Sisters — Producer
• 2001The Milk of Human Kindness — Co-Producer
• 2000La devinière — Line Producer
• 1999L'héritier — Executive Producer
• 1999Les siestes Grenadine — Producer
• 1999Rosetta — Producer, Director, Writer
• 1997Do You Remember Revolution? — Producer
• 1997Gigi, Monica... et Bianca — Executive Producer
• 1996La Promesse — Director, Writer, Producer
• 1995Faute de soleil — Co-Producer
• 1993Thinking of You — Director, Producer, Writer
• 1987Falsch — Director, Screenplay
• 1987Il court, il court, le monde — Director, Writer
• 1983Regard Jonathan/Jean Louvet, son oeuvre — Camera Operator, Editor, Director
• 1983The Writing on the Wall — Producer
• 1982Lessons from a University on the Fly — Director of Photography, Writer
• 1981R... Doesn't Answer Anymore — Editor, Director of Photography, Writer
• 1980For the War to End, the Walls Should Have Crumbled — Writer, Director
• 1979When Léon M.’s Boat Went Down the Meuse for the First Time — Sound, Director, Writer
• 1978Le Chant du rossignol — Director
• Fonda — Co-Producer
• L'Or rouge — Co-Producer

Appearances as themselves (24)

• 2026Mr. Kim Goes to the Cinema — Self
• 2026Vittorio De Sica: Staging Life — Self
• 2025The Ozu Diaries — Self
• Beau geste — Self
• 2021Jacques Audiard, le cinéma à cœur — Self - Interviewee
• 2017Plankton Salesmen — Self (archive footage)
• 2015French Cinema Mon Amour — Self
• 2015Il était une fois... « Rosetta » — Self
• 2015The Dardennes on Leon M's Boat — Self
• 2015The Legend of the Palme d'Or — Self
• 2015Two Days, One Night: On Location — Self
• 2014Jean Pierre Et Luc Dardenne : Leçon de cinéma — Self - Guest
• Clique — Self - Guest
• 2013L'âge de raison, le cinéma des frères Dardenne — Self
• 2013Trespassing Bergman — Self
• 2012A Special Day — Self
• 2011Return to Seraing — Self - Interviewee
• 2009Jean-Pierre et Luc Dardenne : devenir un être humain — Self
• 2006The Home Cinema of the Dardenne Brothers — Self
• 2005J'aime la vie, je fais du vélo, je vais au cinéma — Self - Interviewee
• 2004La beauté du geste — Self
• Leçon de Cinéma — Self
• 2003Chaplin Today: Modern Times — Self
• Vivement dimanche — Self