30/5 — 5/6/2024
64th International Film Festival
for Children and Youth

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Section: Beyond the Childhood Horizon

Neneh Superstar (2023) 12

France | 2023 | 95 min.

Born to dance, Neneh is a 12-year-old black girl who dreams of entering the Paris Opera Ballet School. Despite her enthusiasm, she has to redouble her efforts to escape from her circumstances and be accepted by the school’s director, Marianne Belage, the guarantor of traditions and the bearer of a secret that links her to the little ballerina.

CountryFrance
Year2023
Duration95 min
Rating12
LanguageFrench
SubtitleCzech, English
Directed by Ramzi Ben Sliman
Screenplay Ramzi Ben Sliman
Director of Photography Antony Diaz
Music Jean-Bohémond Leguay
Edited by Basile Belkhiri
Contact Gaumont

Biography

French screenwriter and director of Tunisian origin. He studied at the prestigious École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He's made short films, e.g., Mon Homme (2007), adapted and directed Albert Camus’s The Stranger for the theatre. His feature debut was the drama My Revolution (Ma révolution, 2016).

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