a film inspired by the love story between a woman and a migrant from the Calais jungle

It is a film which, like so many others, is inspired by real events. “It was Marina who heard about the adventure of Béatrice Huret, the story from which the film is inspired.“, explains Jérémie Elkaïm. When Béatrice meets Mokhtar in the Calais jungle, she is far from imagining the adventure that awaits her. Embodied on screen by Marina Foïs, she was a supporter of the National Front at the time. Until the day she falls in love with an Iranian refugee.

During a presidential election, this message does not necessarily have political ambitions. “For me, it’s almost a political message in itself to say that I don’t want to participate in the polarization of society.“, clarifies the director. “If there was a pedagogical virtue to the film, it would be to say ‘deep down, don’t we want to tell ourselves for a second that we are several things at the same time, all of us as much as we are’ “he concludes.