The benefit of the doubt

(BE, FR, CH)

Feature film - Fiction

Finished - Major

2017 - 95 min - Thriller - FR

Release date : BE : 7 mars 2018 - CH : 14 juin 2018 - CA : 27 juillet 2018 - FR: 22 mai 2019

Broadcasting date : BE TV - février 2019, France 5 - février 2019, TV5 Monde - octobre 2019, RTS2 - novembre 2019

Director : Samuel Tilman

Screenplay : Samuel Tilman

Casting : Fabrizio Rongione, Natacha Régnier, Baptiste Lalieu, Myriem Akheddiou, Christophe Paou, Yoann Blanc, Steve Driesen, Erika Sainte, Naïma Ostrowski, Jules Galland

Producer : Eklektik Productions (BE), Good Fortune Films (FR), Point Prod (CH), Serendipity Films (BE), Urban Factory (FR)

Partners : Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Fonds Audiovisuel de Flandre (VAF), La région Bruxelles Capitale - Screen Brussels, La Région Grand Est, le CNC, RTS Radio Télévision Suisse, RTBF (Télévision belge), Voo & Be-TV, Shelter Prod , Take Five, Cinéforom, la Loterie Romande, SRG SSR, Freestudios

Distributor : O'Brother Film Distribution (BE), Outside the Box (CH)

International sales : Be for Films

Synopsis

David is a happy young father. He has a wife he loves, two adorable young children, and a tight-knit tribe of friends he and his family always go away on holiday with.
However, on returning from their last trip away in the Vosges, David is taken in for questioning by the police as part of a murder investigation. Before long the investigation reveals that all is not what it seems behind the happy and respectable facade of David's life. In his entourage doubt begins to spread and clans begin to form