Playground

Playground is a 2021 Belgian drama film directed by Laura Wandel. In June 2021, the film was selected to compete in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. At Cannes, it won the FIPRESCI Prize in the Un Certain Regard section. Playground received the André Cavens Award for Best Film by the Belgian Film Critics Association. At the 11th Magritte Awards, it was nominated for ten awards and won seven, including Best First Feature Film and Best Director for Wandel. It was selected as the Belgian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards. Plot A seven-year-old girl witnesses her older brother being bullied. Though he swears her to secrecy, she tells their father and soon finds herself the victim of bullying as well. Cast Maya Vanderbeque as Nora Günter Duret as Abel Karim Leklou as Finnigan Laura Verlinden as Agnes Lena Girard Voss as Clémence Thao Maerten as David