Still from Nino (2025), by Pauline Loquès.
Still from Nino (2025), by Pauline Loquès.
Nino
Directed by Pauline Loquès (France, 2025, 96 min.). French with English subtitles.
On the eve of his 29th birthday, a sudden cancer diagnosis sends Nino drifting through the streets of Paris, caught between disbelief and the quiet urgency of what comes next. Over the course of a wandering weekend, chance encounters and unresolved relationships take on new weight, as Nino struggles to share his news—and to grasp it himself. With delicate restraint and emotional precision evocative of Agnes Varda’s Cleo from 5 to 7, Pauline Loquès’s debut feature becomes an intimate portrait of suspended time, anchored by a luminous, deeply felt performance from Théodore Pellerin, who won the Rising Star Award at Cannes in 2025.
“Softly devastating while being defiantly celebratory.… Nino feels like that warm embrace you receive from a friend or the kind look you get from a stranger that makes our everyday hells bearable for just a moment.” —RogerEbert.com
This film is part of Young French Cinema, a program of Unifrance and Villa Albertine.
Wheelchair accessible
With English subtitles
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