La Petite Dernière (ENG SUBS)

Seventeen-year-old Fatima (Nadia Melliti) leaves the Parisian suburbs behind for student life in the big city. She discovers a world where she can be queer, but also realizes she doesn’t know how to reconcile that with her faith. As Fatima makes new friends and cautiously explores her independence, she meets nurse Ji-Na (Park Ji-min). For the first time, she falls truly in love, and is thus confronted with the different facets of her identity and the choices that come with it.

La Petite Dernière, by actress and director Hafsia Herzi, is a coming-of-age drama about Fatima, the youngest daughter in a close-knit French-Algerian family. With great warmth and nuance, the film tells a story of growing up, self-discovery, and the quest to find a way to stay true to oneself. The story is based on Fatima Daas’s autobiographical bestseller. Lead actress Nadia Melliti won the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival for her performance. The film itself was awarded the Queer Palm.