THE LITTLE SISTER

With Nadia Melliti, Park Ji-min

Winner of the Queer Palme at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, where actress Nadia Melliti was awarded Best Actress, this woman-directed drama centers on emerging self-acceptance for a daughter who realizes that neither her family nor her faith will recognize her for who she is.  The adored youngest of a large and lively Algerian family, Fatima hides a guilty secret – she is unable to deny or quell her growing sexual attraction to women.  With one foot in a world ruled by patriarchal tradition and the other in the challenging multicultural milieu of a Parisian college student, she hooks up with a woman on a lesbian dating site and discovers that the way to love and acceptance is blocked by her own doubts and fears.  In French and Arabic with English subtitles.