Overview
- Director Hafsia Herzi adapts Fatima Daas’s autofiction into a chronologically told year in the life of a devout French‑Algerian teen awakening to her attraction to women.
- First‑time actor Nadia Melitti, discovered in Paris and cast without prior screen experience, delivers a performance critics call the film’s emotional core.
- At Cannes the film won the Queer Palm, and Melitti received the festival’s best actress award, elevating the release’s profile.
- Reviews emphasize quiet, observational storytelling that traces everyday tensions between faith, family and desire without melodramatic peaks.
- The team notes warm responses from France’s queer‑Muslim community even as casting faced refusals from some who opposed the subject matter.