UN PETIT FRÈRE / MOTHER AND SON

In the late 1980s, Rose moves from the Ivory Coast to the Paris suburbs with her two young sons, Ernest and Jean. Spanning 20 years from their arrival in France to the present day, the film is the moving chronicle of the construction and deconstruction of a family.

LÉONOR SERRAILLE

After studying literature in Lyon, Paris and Barcelona, Léonor Serraille joined the scenario course at the La Fémis Film School in 2009. She then directed a medium-length film shot in 16 mm, Body (2016), which screened in Brive, Créteil, and Osnabrück festivals among others. Jeune Femme (2017), her graduation screenplay and first feature, starring Laetitia Dosch in the lead role, received the Caméra d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Her second film, Mother and Son (2022), was presented in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival.

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Film about a very complicated and painful kind of coming of age, or maybe a meditation on “coming of age” as something that never actually happens; it also examines the illusory dividing line between childhood and adulthood, innocence and experience, present and past.

Peter Bredshow, The Guardian