Winner of the Queer Palm and Best Actress (Nadia Melliti) at Cannes, this beautiful, subtle, observational drama traces a young Muslim woman’s journey between faith, family and self-discovery.

Seventeen year-old Fatima is the youngest daughter in a boisterous Franco-Algerian family. Ready to leave the suburbs of Paris behind, she sheds her old friends and conservative boyfriend. Embarking on a new life at university, she tentatively explores her emerging sexuality through a series of one-off steamy hookups with more experienced women, using a fake name to maintain anonymity. But when she forms a deeper connection with Korean nurse Ji-Na (Park Ji-min, Return to Seoul), can she reconcile her desires with her faith?

Based on Fatima Daas’s acclaimed novel The Last One, Hafsia Herzi’s assured French drama unfolds with remarkable sensitivity and restraint, capturing its protagonist’s inner life through Jérémie Attard’s intimate, quietly expressive cinematography.

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