Les filles désir

Everything is orderly that summer in Marseille for Omar and his group of youth-center counselors, respected in their neighborhood. In their world, the rules are firmly established, and women are divided into two categories: those you sleep with and those you marry. Until Carmen returns... A childhood friend who has left prostitution, Carmen unsettles the group’s certainties. Her presence exposes the contradictions, desires and fragilities of a world in which everyone seemed assigned a place. Prïncia Car’s first feature film, co-written with Léna Mardi and developed through collaborative work with young nonprofessional actors from the northern districts of Marseille, Les Filles désir is part of a committed artistic and social approach. Shaped by improvisation and collective writing, the film, selected for the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes, perceptively captures a young generation searching for meaning, torn between social models and desires for emancipation. An exploration of gender relations without oversimplification. A film that brings forth desires whose wings grow beyond imposed frameworks. A possibility of dreaming then emerges, a way of existing without asking permission.