THE LITTLE SISTER

| 2026 – 179′ – Drama, LGBTQ, Films & Literature, Coming of Age, Women Directors.
Written by: Hafsia Herzi.
Based on the Book by: Fatima Daas.
Directed by: Hafsia Herzi.
Starring: Nadia Melliti, Ji-Min Park, Louis Memmi, Mouna Soualem, Melissa Guers, Nemo Schiffman, Rita Benmannana, Vincent Pasdermadjian.
Official Competition Cannes International Film Festival. Winner Best Actress (Nadia Melliti) & the Queer Palm. 8 nominations César Awards 2026 including: Best Film, Best Director, Best Promising Actress (Nadia Melliti), Best Supporting Actress (Ji-Min Park), Best Adapted Screenplay.
In French with English Subtitles.
Official Competition TAFFF 2025 (Los Angeles Premiere).
A Strand Releasing release. |

We meet Fatima, the teenage daughter of a Muslim family in the Paris projects, as she performs her ablutions, then kneels and prays in full hijab garb.  Yet the street-slang-slinging soccer-freak and resident tomboy is far from the Islamic ideal of womanhood, and it won’t be long before her truly “veiled” nature erupts and rises to the surface. Walking off with not one, but two major prizes (Best Actress and the Queer Palm) at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Hafsia Herzi’s stunning coming-of-age drama is deftly, quietly told and filled with nuanced performances across the board, as it plunges us into a devastating conflict between sexual desire, spiritual demands and self-acceptance, and the enormous courage it takes to utter the unspeakable.

CODA

| 2022 – 101′ – A USA/France co-production – Drama, Coming-of Age, Music & Dance, Co-Produced by France.
Written by: Siân Heder.
Directed by: Siân Heder.
Starring: Emilia Jones, Marlee Matlin, Eugenio Derbez, Troy Kotsur, Daniel Durant, Rebecca Gibel, John Fiore, Lonnie Farmer.
Official Selection Sundance International Film Festival 2021 (winner). Academy Awards Winner 2022 (Best Film, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor for Troy Kotsur).
In English.
An Apple Original release. |

Seventeen-year-old Ruby (Emilia Jones) is the sole hearing member of a deaf family — a CODA, child of deaf adults. Her life revolves around acting as interpreter for her parents (Marlee Matlin, Troy Kotsur) and working on the family’s struggling fishing boat every day before school with her father and older brother (Daniel Durant). But when Ruby joins her high school’s choir club, she discovers a gift for singing and soon finds herself drawn to her duet partner Miles (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo). Encouraged by her enthusiastic, tough-love choirmaster (Eugenio Derbez) to apply to a prestigious music school, Ruby finds herself torn between the obligations she feels to her family and the pursuit of her own dreams. CODA is the American remake of French Film The Belier Family. 

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STILL THE WATER

| 2015  – 118′ – A Japan/France/Spain co-production, Drama, Coming-of-Age, Women Directors, Co-produced by France.
Written by: Naomi Kawase.
Directed by: Naomi Kawase.
Starring: Jun Yoshinaga, Nijiro Murakami, Tetta Sugimoto, Miyuki Matsuda, Makiko Watanabe.
Official Selections Cannes International Film Festival 2014, Toronto International Film Festival 2014.
Official Competition COLCOA 2015.
In Japanese with English subtitles.
A Film Movement release. |

This 2014 Palme d’Or nominee is a lyrical and visually arresting rumination on the meaning of love, life and death set in the exotically verdant Japanese island of Amami. The quiet story centers on Kaito and Kyoko, 16 year-old classmates whose nascent sexual awakening is put on hold by a heavily tattooed corpse that washes up after a typhoon. The sudden intrusion of death reinforces Kaito’s fear of the sea but the more adventurous Kyoko sees the body as a mystery to be solved. Both have troubled home lives. Kaito’s divorced mother is too busy earning a living to give him the attention he needs, while Kyoko struggles to accept her mother’s terminal illness, especially since her mother is a revered shaman. When Kaito discovers his connection to the dead body, he is forced to re-examine everything that he has taken for granted in his life. Still The Water is an intensely personal yet universal glimpse into Japan’s folkloric traditions, where coming-of-age means coming to terms with the unity of nature.

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YOUNG MILLIONAIRES

| 2025 – 8 x 35′ – Series (Season 1) – Comedy, Coming of Age.
Created by: Igor Gotesman.
Written by: Igor Gotesman, Mahault Mollaret, Tania Gotesman, Carine Prevot, Steven Mitz.
Directed by: Igor Gotesman, Tania Gotesman, Théo Jourdain, Mohamed Chabane-Chaouche.
Starring: Abraham Wapler, Sara Gançarski, Malou Khebizi, Calixte Broisin-Doutaz, Jeanne Boudier, Florian Lesieur, Allan Marcelli.
In English and French with English subtitles.
A Netflix Original release. |

Did you know that, in France, game and lottery winnings can’t be cashed in unless you are 18? That is one of the sticking points for coming-of-age comedy Young Millionaire, created by Igor Gotesman, who already wrote and codirected 2024’s Fiasco. Four teenagers based in Marseille, all aged 17, decide to try their luck at the lottery on Friday the 13th and walk away with a €17 million jackpot. The issue: only a discreet new friend, Victoire, is aged 18 and able to pocket the money… and the least of the group’s problems with the upcoming end-of-year exams and their own family life. 

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EDEN

| 2015  – 131′ – Drama, Music & Dance, Coming of Age, Women Directors.
Written by: Mia Hansen-Løve.
Directed by: Mia Hansen-Løve.
Starring: Felix De Givry, Pauline Etienne, Vincent Macaigne, Greta Gerwig, Golshifteh Farahani, Laura Smet, Vincent Lacoste, Roman Kolinka, Paul Spera, Zita Hanrot.
Official Selections: Toronto International Film Festival 2014, San Sebastian International FIlm Festival 2014, New York Film Festival 2014, Sundance Film Festival 2015.
In French with English subtitles.
A Gravitas Ventures release. |

Paul, a teenager in the underground scene of early-nineties Paris, forms a DJ collective with his friends and together they plunge into the nightlife of sex, drugs, and endless music. 

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RENOIR

| 2025  – 118′ – A Japan/France Co-production. Drama, Coming of Age, Women Directors, Co-Produced by France.
Written by: Chie Ayakawa.
Directed by: Chie Ayakawa.
Starring: Yui Suzuki, Lily Franky, Hikari Ishida, Ayumu Nakajima, Yuumi Kawai, Ryota Bando.
Official Selection Cannes International Film Festival 2025.
In Japanese with English subtitles.
A Film Movement release. |

Suburban Tokyo, 1987. 11-year-old Fuki’s father, Keiji, is battling a terminal illness, and in and out of hospital. Her mother, Utako, is constantly stressed out from caring for Keiji while holding down a full-time job. Left alone with her rich imagination, Fuki becomes fascinated by telepathy and falls ever deeper into her own fantasy world. 

SOMETHING IN THE AIR

| 2012 – 122′ – Drama, Romance, Coming of Age, Period & History.
Written by: Olivier Assayas.
Directed by: Olivier Assayas.
Starring: Clément Métayer, Lola Creton, Félix Armand, Carole Combes, India Menuez, Hugo Conzelmann, Mathias Renou, Léa Rougeron.
Official Selections Venice International Film Festival 2012 (Winner Best Screenplay Award), San Sebastian International Film Festival 2012, Toronto International Film Festival 2012, New York Film Festival 2012.
In French with English Subtitles.
A Sundance Selects release. |

Paris in the early 70′s. Gilles, a young high school student, is taken in by the political and creative turmoil of the times. Much like his friends, he is torn between his radical commitment and his personal ambitions. Through romantic encounters and artistic discoveries, Gilles and his friends’ journeys take them to Italy and then London. Further down the line, they will have to make definitive choices in order to find their place in these turbulent times.

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