Preview of the film Reine-mère by Manele Labidi
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By Manele Labidi, 1h33, released March 12, 2025
With Camélia Jordana, Sofiane Zermani, Damien Bonnard, Rim Monfort
In the presence of director Manele Labidi and actor Damien Bonnard.
Amel is a colorful character. She is temperamental, ambitious for her two daughters, has high self-esteem and forms a passionate and explosive couple with Amor. Despite her financial difficulties, she’s determined not to leave the beautiful neighborhoods. But the family is soon threatened with the loss of their apartment, while Mouna, the eldest daughter, begins to have strange visions of Charles Martel after learning that he stopped the Arabs at Poitiers in 732… Amel has no choice but to reinvent herself!
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Manele Labidi
Manele Labidi © 2023 Caroline Dubois – Kazak Productions Frakas Productions – ARTE France Cinéma
Manele Labidi is a screenwriter and director. Before directing the short film Une chambre à moi, a tragic-comic variation on the work of Virginia Woolf, she worked as a playwright and radio writer. In 2020, she released Un divan à Tunis (with Golshifteh Farahani), her first feature film distributed in over 40 countries and awarded the Audience Prize at the Venice Film Festival. His second feature, Reine mère, will be released in France in 2025.
Damien Bonnard
After graduating from the Beaux-arts, he worked in a variety of jobs, took acting classes, appeared as an extra in films, played in shorts, bit parts and supporting roles in feature films directed by Bertrand Blier, Christopher Nolan, Rachid Bouchareb, Brigitte Sy and others. He won his first lead role in 2016 in Alain Guiraudie’s Rester vertical, and was nominated for a César for Best New Male Talent. That year, he won the Lumières Revelation award. Two years later, he starred in Pierre Salvadori’s En liberté and was nominated for a César for Best Supporting Actor. He then played Pento in Ladj Ly’s Les Misérables, which won the Jury Prize at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival and represented France at the Oscars. His performance earned him a César nomination for Best Actor. He was nominated again in this category two years later for Joachim Lafosse’s Les Intranquilles.
Between 2017 and 2023, he worked with Nathan Silver (Thirst Street) , F. J. Ossang (9 Doigts), Leopold Legrand (Le Sixième enfant), Yòrgos Lànthimos (Bleat), Roman Polanski (J’Accuse), Dominik Moll (Seules les bêtes), Wes Anderson (The French Dispatch), Ilan Klipper (Le Processus de paix) and Wes Anderson (Asteroïd City), in 2024 he will star in Brigitte Sy’s Le bonheur est pour demain, Poor Things by Yòrgos Lànthimos, Niki by Céline Sallette, La voie du serpent by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Grand ciel by Akihiro Hata, Reine mère by Manele Labidi, Le système Victoria by Sylvains Desclous, La Pampa by Antoine Chevrolier and Troies amies by Emmanuel Mouret.
By Manele Labidi, 1h33, released March 12, 2025
With Camélia Jordana, Sofiane Zermani, Damien Bonnard, Rim Monfort
In the presence of director Manele Labidi and actor Damien Bonnard.
Amel is a colorful character. She is temperamental, ambitious for her two daughters, has high self-esteem and forms a passionate and explosive couple with Amor. Despite her financial difficulties, she’s determined not to leave the beautiful neighborhoods. But the family is soon threatened with the loss of their apartment, while Mouna, the eldest daughter, begins to have strange visions of Charles Martel after learning that he stopped the Arabs at Poitiers in 732… Amel has no choice but to reinvent herself!
Discover the trailer
Manele Labidi
Manele Labidi © 2023 Caroline Dubois – Kazak Productions Frakas Productions – ARTE France Cinéma
Manele Labidi is a screenwriter and director. Before directing the short film Une chambre à moi, a tragic-comic variation on the work of Virginia Woolf, she worked as a playwright and radio writer. In 2020, she released Un divan à Tunis (with Golshifteh Farahani), her first feature film distributed in over 40 countries and awarded the Audience Prize at the Venice Film Festival. His second feature, Reine mère, will be released in France in 2025.
Damien Bonnard
After graduating from the Beaux-arts, he worked in a variety of jobs, took acting classes, appeared as an extra in films, played in shorts, bit parts and supporting roles in feature films directed by Bertrand Blier, Christopher Nolan, Rachid Bouchareb, Brigitte Sy and others. He won his first lead role in 2016 in Alain Guiraudie’s Rester vertical, and was nominated for a César for Best New Male Talent. That year, he won the Lumières Revelation award. Two years later, he starred in Pierre Salvadori’s En liberté and was nominated for a César for Best Supporting Actor. He then played Pento in Ladj Ly’s Les Misérables, which won the Jury Prize at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival and represented France at the Oscars. His performance earned him a César nomination for Best Actor. He was nominated again in this category two years later for Joachim Lafosse’s Les Intranquilles.
Between 2017 and 2023, he worked with Nathan Silver (Thirst Street) , F. J. Ossang (9 Doigts), Leopold Legrand (Le Sixième enfant), Yòrgos Lànthimos (Bleat), Roman Polanski (J’Accuse), Dominik Moll (Seules les bêtes), Wes Anderson (The French Dispatch), Ilan Klipper (Le Processus de paix) and Wes Anderson (Asteroïd City), in 2024 he will star in Brigitte Sy’s Le bonheur est pour demain, Poor Things by Yòrgos Lànthimos, Niki by Céline Sallette, La voie du serpent by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Grand ciel by Akihiro Hata, Reine mère by Manele Labidi, Le système Victoria by Sylvains Desclous, La Pampa by Antoine Chevrolier and Troies amies by Emmanuel Mouret.