We are delighted to welcome the French Film Festival back to QFT for its 24^th edition – featuring the crême de la crême of contemporary and classic French-speaking cinema.

The luminous fourth feature from Danielle Arbid (Beirut Hotel) is a coming-of-age story about a young woman from Beirut whose relationships and encounters reveal different facets of her new country, and of herself. 

Lina (promising newcomer Manal Issa) is 18 years old, serious, and strong-willed. She’s just arrived in Paris from Beirut to start university and had planned to stay with her uncle, but he turns out
to have an unhealthy interest in her. She flees and finds herself on the street. Luckily, she has a magnetic charm that draws people to her. It’s not long before new school friends offer her a place to stay and Lina begins her immersion in Paris life. 

Using
a fluid, intimate style, Arbid charts the stages of Lina’s evolution – in intellectual, emotional, and sexual terms – from naive migrant to the Parisienne of the title.

Age 15+