Nino

When Nino, a young man living in Paris, learns he has cancer, he wanders the city’s streets to reconnect with the world and himself before his treatment begins. Writer/director Pauline  Loquès says she wanted to make a “luminous film about illness” that was also deeply human. She chose Théodore Pellerin, a Canadian actor who was virtually unknown in France, to play the title role. He went on to win a Rising Star Award at Cannes last May and just won Best Male Newcomer/Breakthrough at the Césars, where Nino also won Best First Film for Pauline Loquès

Larry Kardish, FilmColumbia’s Co-Executive and Co-Artistic Director, will briefly present each film in the Young French Cinema series. Kardish is senior curator emeritus for film and media at New York’s Museum of Modern Art and teaches Film in the Graduate Program of the School of Visual Arts, New York. He is an Academy scholar whose book, Up on the Roof: The Passionate Life and Radical Works of Shirley Clarke, will be published in late 2026 by the University Press of Kentucky.