MUBI Announce Release Details For Lukas Dhont’s Coward
Lukas Dhont‘s Queer war drama Coward made big waves when it made it’s debut at Cannes Film Festival earlier in the year. This pushed boutique distributor MUBI to pick up the rights to Belgium’s Official Submission for Best International Feature Film for the 99th Academy Awards.
Today the distributor announce the film will be released in UK and Irish cinemas in January. To promote the news we now have a first look clip ahead of it’s preview at BFI London Film Festival.
Coward stars Emmanuel Macchia and Valentin Campagne. Set during the first world war amongst the Belgium trenches, a romance between 2 soldiers blossoms when the world is consumed by violence.
Synopsis | Set at the height of World War I in the shadows of the Belgian trenches, Lukas Dhont’s Coward unfolds as an epic, intimate journey of youthful self-discovery through love, art, and survival.
Pierre (Macchia) arrives at the front lines as a young soldier eager to find his footing in a world consumed by violence. Everything changes when he meets Francis (Campagne), a kindred spirit whose vision of staging a front-line theatre show unlocks a world Pierre never knew existed. What begins as a fleeting escape from the harsh reality of the trenches soon blossoms into a tender, emotional love story, anchored by the undeniable chemistry of breakout actors Emmanuel Macchia and Valentin Campagne. As the world burns around them, their stage becomes a sanctuary of innocence and devotion.
Coward beautifully explores the fine line between fear and fortitude for soldiers in search of a promised glory, ultimately asking: when the world demands brutality, is walking away for love the truest act of bravery?
Coward will next play at BFI London Film Festival on 15th October. The film will be released in UK and Irish cinemas on 1st January 2027.
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