Supported film-TV production: “La Petite Dernier”, awarded at Cannes 2025

Beneficiary of the Regional Cinema Support Fund, The Little Last, by Hafsia Herzi, was one of the 16 films supported by the Region presented at Cannes in May 2025, and, among them, of the 5 ultimately awarded.

The film actually received 2 awards on the Croisette:

• The Official Jury’s Female Interpretation Prize for its main performer, Nadia Melliti,
• The Queer Palm.

Adapted from a novel by Faima Daas, The Little Last tells the story of the emancipation of a young practicing homosexual Muslim woman.

Fatima, 17, is the youngest. She lives in the suburbs with her sisters, in a happy and loving family. A good student, she joined a philosophy school in Paris and discovered a whole new world. As her life as a young woman begins, she understands that, to fulfill her desires, she must go against her environment, against traditions, against her family, against religion…

Admiring filmmakers like Abdellatif Kechiche, the Dardenne brothers and even Ken Loach, Hafsia Herzi, whose third feature film this is, has a predilection for close-ups, which allow us to “filming souls, faces, portraits, feeling breaths, skins…”.

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