COOL ABDOUL

By Jonas BAECKELAND

POTEMKINO - as PROD

True Story - Completed 2021

Ismail Abdoul, a young boxer, becomes increasingly entangled in a web of wrong choices. He will have to fight the ultimate battle: the one with himself.

Festivals
& Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2021
Industry Selects
Film Fest Gent 2021
Premiere
    • Year of production
    • 2021
    • Genres
    • True Story, Biography
    • Countries
    • BELGIUM, NETHERLANDS
    • Languages
    • ARABIC, FRENCH, DUTCH
    • Duration
    • 112 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Jonas BAECKELAND
    • Writer(s)
    • Jonas BAECKELAND, Fikry EL AZZOUZI, Wouter VAN HAVER
    • Producer(s)
    • Lize LEFAIBLE (Potemkino), Peter DE MAEGD (Potemkino), Tom HAMEEUW (Potemkino)
    • Synopsis
    • Ismail Abdoul is a talented young boxer on the rise, ready to make it to the top. He’s found the love of his life, Sylvie, and is making a decent living as a bouncer. But when the opportunity for more money and power arises, he seizes it. In no time, he and his men control all the club doors in the city, including the drug traffic behind them. Abdoul becomes a living legend, both in the ring and out of it. Blinded by success, he gets caught in a web of his own lies and violent actions and will be forced to fight the ultimate match: against himself.