Blacked Out…French cinemas refuse to show Black, a Romeo and Juliette tales set in Brussels

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Black is a 2015 Belgium action drama by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah. Starring Sanaa Alaoui, Martha Canga Antonio and Aboubakr Bensaihi. A 15-year-old girl in a black gang in Brussels must choose between loyalty and love when she falls for a Moroccan boy from a rival gang. The city of Brussels, plagued by high rates of youth unemployment, is home to nearly forty street gangs, and the number of young people drawn into the city’s gang culture increases each year. A film about gangs set in the tough Brussels suburb where a jihadi cell planned the Paris terror attacks, has been pulled from French cinemas.  A spokesman for Paname Distribution said: due to the reluctance of cinemas to show Black in the current climate, we took the decision to cancel its cinematic release. Black was a hit in Belgium despite some cinemas refusing to show it after the violence and an over-16 certificate which its makers condemned as “unjust” given characters were mostly teenagers. France adopted the same 16 rating. Black will now be released online.