Nino

César Award winner for Best First Film and Best Male Newcomer (Théodore Pellerin)

Diagnosed with throat cancer on his 29th birthday, Nino (Théodore Pellerin, Lurker) must wait four nerve-wracking days and nights before his treatment can begin. Worried about burdening friends, family, and ex-girlfriends with the news, an aimless Nino keeps his diagnosis to himself and wanders Paris, becoming more awake to the world around him as the hours pass. In a debut feature film inspired by the premature death of a close relative, Pauline Loquès trains a sensitive eye on a young man at a moment of existential reckoning. The quietly magnetic Pellerin wanders through an of-the-moment portrait of Paris, seen here from a perspective outside the usual tourist precincts, encountering a wide variety of people along the way—embodied by a sterling ensemble cast that includes the legendary Jeanne Balibar as Nino’s mother, and a memorable cameo from Mathieu Amalric as a mysterious stranger. Winner of the Lumières Award for Best First Film.