Cannes 2025

After graduating from high school, Julien left his hometown to build a bigger life in the capital, leaving his memories behind. And then one day, he had to come back, and that day his memories jumped out at him from between two packets of Pepito cookies.

Leslie, a disillusioned young suburbanite, drags his best friend Renard into a crappy scheme at the other end of Île-de-France. On a construction site of the future Greater Paris metro line, they discover a mysterious artifact. What easily draw a small ticket. But over the course of their journey, the Parisian suburbs become the scene of strange phenomena.

Céline, à la maternité, attend l’arrivée de son premier enfant. C’est Jeanne, sa compagne, qui va le mettre au monde. La nuit, dans le hall de l’hôpital, elle fait la connaissance d’hommes qui, comme elle, attendent.

In 2018, an incel called Anathematic Anarchist posted a suicide note on Reddit entitled America is responsible for my death. Fluid Mechanics is an attempt to find answers to his words. A virtual drift through the internet in search of his digital tracks that eventually turns into an inner journey between our connected solitudes.

Nora, a cleaning lady in her fifties, looks after her small family in a housing estate in the northern part of Marseille. She is worried about her grandson ELLYES, who has been in prison for several months for robbery and is awaiting his trial with a mixture of hope and anxiety. NORA does everything she can to make this wait as painless as possible...

When Melissa, a prison guard gets transferred to a new prison in Corsica, a young male inmate helps her get her bearings and offers her protection —but he expects help in return.

Élise thought she had the perfect life: an ideal boyfriend and a promising career as a ballet dancer. It all falls apart the day she catches him cheating on her; and after she suffers an injury on stage, it seems like she might not be able to dance again. The path to physical and emotional recovery will lead her away from Paris to a picturesque location in Brittany – where her friends, a new love and the freedom of contemporary dance will help her reconnect with her father and most importantly, herself. A heartwarming and inspiring story that tells us how sometimes, the worst thing that could happen may turn out to be the best.

1980, Abadan. The capital of the Iranian oil industry is resisting an Iraqi siege. Fourteen-year-old Omid has braved the siege and stayed in the city with his grandfather, waiting for his elder brother to return from the front line. Along with Omid, a gallery of unusual characters have all remained in the city for their own reasons, and each resists in his or her own way. But the noose is tightening as Omid tries to save his loved ones, by embarking them on an abandoned boat he finds in Abadan’s port, that will become his ark.

16 years-old Lise is accused of murdering her best friend. Her parents stand by her as naturally expected. But once in court, her secret life begins to unfold and the plot thickens. Who is Lise really? Do we really know the ones we love?