A young mother overcomes her fears and fights against her dismissal
Our film for International Women's Day 2026
Belgium/FranceI/Taly 2014
Original title: DEUX JOURS, UNE NUIT
Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Length: 95 min, FSK: 6
Starring: Inside: Marion Cotillard, Fabrizio Rongione, Pili Groyne, Simon Caudry, Catherine Salée, Baptiste Sornin, Alain Eloy.
The philosopher Rahel Jaeggi compares the process of self-liberation to the conversion of a ship on the high seas. She describes emancipation as the gradual processing and overcoming of one's own fears and unjust social constraints.
Sandra (Marion Cotillard), the protagonist of the Dardenne brothers' socially critical feature film, has a few issues in this regard. She tries to get her depression under control with pills and has little to counter her domineering husband. When, after a long period of sick leave, she learns that she is to be made redundant by her middle-class employer, she has no choice but to take her last remaining chance to fight off her dismissal. She only has two days and one night to rise above herself and convince her colleagues at work to waive a EUR 1,000 bonus (for agreeing to Sandra's dismissal) in a show of solidarity.
We are showing the feature film in cooperation with Filmklub Güstrow e.V.
