'Summer Camp' (film)

Country: France, 2025. Directors: Lise Akoka, Romane Gueret. Cast: Mouktar Diawara, Fanta Keba, Zakaria Tayeb Lazab, Shirel Netef. ⏱ Runtime: 112 min. 🌐 Language: French. 💬 Subtitles: Hebrew and English. Three years after the release of their first and successful film "The Worst Ones," the directing duo Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret returned this year to the Cannes Festival with "Summer Camp," a smart and moving coming-of-age drama. In the new film, they continue to focus on young people from the French working class, this time through two close 19-year-old friends who go to work as counselors at a summer camp for children aged 6–10. Far from the Parisian housing projects where they grew up, the new responsibility clashes with the urge to escape and dreams of a different future. Amid trips and...