The Youngest Daughter

Fátima, 17, is the youngest of three sisters. She lives in the suburbs, in a happy and loving Franco-Algerian family. A good student, she enters the University of Paris. As she begins her life as an adult woman, she emancipates herself from her family and their traditions. She dates someone, makes friends, and explores a completely new world, while facing a heartbreaking dilemma: How to stay true to oneself when reconciling different aspects of one’s own identity seems impossible?

Technical details

• Director: Hafsia Herzi
• Screenplay: Hafsia Herzi, based on a novel by Fatima Daas
• Cast: Nadia Melliti, Park Ji-min, Louis Memmi, Mouna Soualem, Aloïse Sauvage, Melissa Guers, Nemo Schiffman, Vincent Pasdermadjian
• Genre: drama, adolescence, LGBTQ+
• File: France | 2025 | 106 min. | French with Spanish subtitles | Not recommended for children under 12

Additional information

• Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival 2025
• Seven nominations for the César Awards 2025
• Seville Festival 2025
• Locarno Festival 2025

Note: The film programming offered by Laboral Cinemateca is selected by the Gijón/Xixón International Film Festival (Divertia Gijón S.A.). Event with auditory accessibility systems available upon request.