"Youth is the only reasonable generation." - Françoise Sagan

If the future belongs to youth, it doesn't always smile upon them. Caught between emancipatory impulses and the harsh awakening to the adult world, youth on screen is portrayed as much through its desires as through its disillusions.

In partnership with the Nouvelles Vagues Festival in Biarritz, these coming-of-age stories trace an emotional map across eras and countries, while also highlighting the faces who embody them, revealing young actresses and actors destined to make their generation’s cinema shine for years to come.

Featured films:

Summer with Monika directed by Ingmar Bergman
Two Cents Worth of Hope directed by Renato Castellani
Cruel Story of Youth directed by Nagisa Ōshima
Black Peter directed by Miloš Forman
The Fifteen-Year-Old Widows directed by Jean Rouch
The Graduate directed by Mike Nichols
The Last Picture Show directed by Peter Bogdanovich
A Nos Amours directed by Maurice Pialat
Sweetie directed by Jane Campion
A Summer Dress directed by François Ozon
On the Edge directed by Leila Kilani

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