DERRIÈRE LES PALMIERS | 27th French Film Festival
DERRIÈRE LES PALMIERS | 27ª FESTA DO CINEMA FRANCÊS
Cinema 6€
Saturday 10 October · 19:00
Premiered in Cannes' Un Certain Regard section, Meryem Benm'Barek's film dives into a Tangier where desire, money and power intersect: when Mehdi is seduced by the world of luxury of Marie, a young Frenchwoman from a wealthy family, he drifts away from Selma, the woman he loves, in a portrait of deep inequalities and reopened colonial wounds.
Synopsis Derrière les palmiers, Meryem Benm'Barek France, Morocco, Belgium, 2026, 80', subtitled in Portuguese With: Sara Giraudeau, Driss Ramdi, Nadia Kounda, Carole Bouquet Premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes, the film dives into a Tangier where desire, money and power intersect. When Mehdi meets Marie, a young Frenchwoman from a wealthy family, he lets himself be seduced by her world of luxury and drifts away from Selma, the woman he loves. Behind this love triangle, the Moroccan director reveals a society marked by deep inequalities, where old power relations take on new forms and the presence of Western expatriates reopens the wounds of a colonial past. Screenplay: Meryem Benm'Barek, Fyzal Boulifa Production: Tessalit Productions, Furyo Films, Agora Films, Chi-Fou-Mi Productions, Novak Prod, The Bureau, Shelter Prod Prices General - 6€ Reduced mobility - 6€ Discounts Unemployed, Young people, Seniors over 65