{"id":23461,"date":"2025-08-20T15:07:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T15:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?p=23461"},"modified":"2026-02-11T01:23:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T01:23:06","slug":"the-little-sister-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/the-little-sister-2\/","title":{"rendered":"THE LITTLE\u00a0SISTER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-26316\" src=\"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/littlesisterthe_poster_27x39v1-242x350.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/littlesisterthe_poster_27x39v1-242x350.jpg 242w, https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/littlesisterthe_poster_27x39v1-600x866.jpg 600w, https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/littlesisterthe_poster_27x39v1.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">COMING TO THEATERS in SPRING 2026 BEFORE A DIGITAL RELEASE.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>THE LITTLE\u00a0SISTER<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">| 2026 \u2013 179\u2032 \u2013 Drama, LGBTQ, Films &amp; Literature, Coming of Age, Women Directors.<br \/>\nWritten by: Hafsia Herzi.<br \/>\nBased on the\u00a0Book by: Fatima Daas.<br \/>\nDirected by:\u00a0Hafsia Herzi.<br \/>\nStarring:\u00a0Nadia Melliti, Ji-Min Park,\u00a0Louis Memmi, Mouna Soualem, Melissa Guers, Nemo Schiffman, Rita Benmannana, Vincent Pasdermadjian.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Official Competition\u00a0Cannes International Film Festival. Winner Best Actress (Nadia Melliti) &amp; the Queer Palm.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">8 nominations\u00a0C<\/span>\u00e9<span style=\"font-size: large;\">sar Awards 2026 including:<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: large;\">Best Film, Best Director, Best Promising Actress (Nadia Melliti), Best Supporting Actress (Ji-Min Park), Best Adapted Screenplay.<\/span><br \/>\nIn French\u00a0with English Subtitles.<br \/>\nOfficial Competition\u00a0<b>TAFFF 2025 (Los Angeles Premiere)<\/b>.<br \/>\nA Strand Releasing release. |<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">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.\u00a0 Yet the street-slang-slinging soccer-freak and resident tomboy is far from the Islamic ideal of womanhood, and it won&#8217;t be long before her truly &#8220;veiled&#8221; nature erupts and rises to the surface. Walking off with not one, but two major prizes (Best Actress\u00a0and the Queer Palm) at this year&#8217;s Cannes Film Festival, Hafsia Herzi&#8217;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.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COMING TO THEATERS in SPRING 2026 BEFORE A DIGITAL RELEASE. THE LITTLE\u00a0SISTER | 2026 \u2013 179\u2032 \u2013 Drama, LGBTQ, Films &amp; Literature, Coming of Age, Women Directors. Written by: Hafsia Herzi. Based on the\u00a0Book by: Fatima Daas. Directed by:\u00a0Hafsia Herzi. Starring:\u00a0Nadia Melliti, Ji-Min Park,\u00a0Louis Memmi, Mouna Soualem, Melissa Guers, Nemo Schiffman, Rita Benmannana, Vincent Pasdermadjian. 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