Le Havre

In this warm-hearted portrait of the harbor city that gives the film its name, fate throws young African refugee Idrissa (Blondin Miguel) into the path of Marcel Marx (André Wilms), a well-spoken bohemian who works as a shoe-shiner. With innate optimism and the unwavering solidarity of his community, Marcel stands up to the officials doggedly pursuing the boy.

“Kaurismäki's ingenious pastiche of French populist poetic-realist dramas plumbs their styles and moods for enduring political substance.” (Richard Brody, New Yorker)