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THE KINGDOM

| 2024 – 108′ – Drama.
Written by:Julien Colonna, Jeanne Herry.
Directed by: Julien Colonna.
Starring: Ghjovanna Benedetti, Anthony Morganti, Thomas Bronzini de Caraffa, Pascale Mariani, Saveriu Santucci, Andrea Cossu, Eric Ettori, Frédéric Poggi.
Official Selections: Cannes International Film Festival 2024 (Un Certain Regard).
Official Competition TAFFF 2024.
In French with English subtitles.
A Metrograph Pictures release. |

Julien Colonna‘s astonishing first feature turns the mafia genre on its head, very simply by telling it from the point of view of a 15-year-old girl. When summer begins, Lesia is going to the beach and wrapped up in clandestine meetings with her boyfriend… until she’s suddenly whisked away by a man on a motorbike and taken to the isolated seaside villa where her Corsican crime-boss father is on the lam. It’s a ritual she’s more than familiar with; it’s the story of her life. But this is the summer Lesia’s father opens both his heart and his world to her, and she will never be the same. Co-written with COLCOA/TAFFF veteran writer-director Jeanne Herry (In Safe Hands and All Your Faces), The Kingdom not only lures us into that sinister world, but is simultaneously moving, chilling and complex in its illustration of how the torch is passed in an endless wheel of violence.