THE AMERICAN DREAM

(Le rêve americain)

Los Angeles Premiere | France | 2026 | Biopic, Comedy | 121 min | In French with English subtitles, and in English.

Directed by: Anthony Marciano
Written by: Anthony Marciano, Bouna Ndiaye, Jérémy Medjana
Based on the True Story of: Bouna Ndiaye and Jérémy Medjana
Produced by: Nicolas Duval Adassovsky, Margaux Dourdin Marciano (Quad Cinéma), Gaumont, France 2 Cinéma
Cinematography: Antony Diaz
Original Score: Dédouze, Anthony Marciano
Film Editing: Guillaume Lauras
Cast: Jean-Pascal Zadi (Bouna Ndiaye), Raphaël Quenard (Jérémy Medjana), Olga Mouak (Fatoumata), Tracy Gotoas (Aby), Gabriel Caballero (Florian Collet), Yilin Yang (Zhu), Djibi Diakhaté (Didier M’Benga), Rudy Gobert, Victor Wenbanyama
International Sales: Gaumont

Synopsis

Jérémy works in a video store. Bouna washes planes at Orly Airport. Both are driven by a profound love of basketball. Fate brings them together and they launch their own sports agency. But it takes more than a business card and a dream to sign talent and sell them to the mighty NBA. It takes drive, sharp instincts and, in their case, a genuine love and respect for the players. Based on a true, against-all-odds success story, Anthony Marciano’s feel-good buddy movie takes us on the emotional rollercoaster that led the indefatigable twosome to become the most illustrious, and certainly most influential French NBA agents in America, representing such stellar players as Victor Wembanyama, Rudy Gobert, and Nicolas Batum.

Director’s bio

Anthony Marciano began his career writing comedy sketches and cofounding the crowdfunding website My Major Company. His first feature film, Les Gamins (2013), starring Alain Chabat and Sandrine Kiberlain, was a box-office success and won the Audience Award at the Hamburg Film Festival. He went on to cowrite and direct two more features, Robin Hood: The True Story (2015) and Play (2019), and co-directed all 14 episodes of the Amazon Prime series Miskina, Poor Thing (TAFFF 2022).