Paris, Place des Fêtes – a working-class neighborhood in the 19th arrondissement. Shaï and Djeneba, both 19, have been inseparable since childhood. One feels stifled by a suffocating family, the other weighed down by crushing solitude. Over the course of a summer, they work as counselors at a holiday camp, far from the high-rises where they grew up…
The new film by the directors of The Worst Ones – Grand Prix winner in Un Certain Regard at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival – featuring rising star Mallory Wanecque (Beating Hearts).
Crédits
Interprètes
Fanta Kebe, Idir Azougli, Amel Bent, Mouctar Diawara, Shirel Nataf, Suzanne de Baecque, Zakaria Lazab, Yuming Hey
Screenplay
Lise Akoka, Romane Gueret, Catherine PailléImage
Jean-François HensgsensEditing
Albertine LasteraProduction
Superstructure Films, France 3 Cinema, StudioCanal France, Auvergne Rhone Alpes CinémaSéances
Cinéma Le Royal VFSTA - Salle 1
Followed with by a Q&A with the co-director Romane Gueret
Cannes Première 2025
Lise Akoka & Romane Gueret
In 2015, Romane Gueret (born in 1992) and Lise Akoka (born in 1987) co-directed Chasse Royale, which won the Illy Prize at the Directors’ Fortnight and earned a César nomination for Best Short Film. In 2020, their web series Tu préfères was selected at the Sundance Film Festival. Their debut feature, The Worst Ones, won the Un Certain Regard Grand Prix at Cannes in 2021. Ma frère was presented in the Cannes Première section in 2025.
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Distribution : Studio Canal