38th edition
17-25 january 2026
Image Nos cérémonies
© The Jokers Films
France
2022 Fiction 1h44
Royan, 2011. In the afterglow of summer, two young brothers, Tony and Noé, play dare or die … Until the accident which will change their lives for ever. Ten years later, now young adults, they return to Royan and come across Cassandre, their childhood love. But all this time the brothers have been keeping a secret…
With : Raymond Baur, Simon Baur, Maïra Villena
Screenplay : Léa Riche, Simon Rieth
Image : Marine Atlan
Editing : Guillaume Lillo
Production : Les Films du Poisson, SMAC Productions, Spade
Distribution: Les Bookmakers / The Jokers
Simon Rieth was born in Paris in 1995 and grew up in Montpellier. By the age of 26 he had already made 6 short films (Feu mes frères, Saint-Jean, screened at Premiers Plans, Sans amour, whose screenplay was read at the Festival in 2018, Marave Challenge...) which all had screenings and won awards in dozens of festivals, notably the BFI Future Film Festival, the Beijing International Film Festival, the MECAL Barcelona IFF and the FIFIB. His first feature, Nos cérémonies, produced by Les Films du Poisson, had its world premiere as the only French film in competition at the 2022 Critics' Week.