Nino

Pauline Loquès is a French director and screenwriter. Her first feature film, Nino (2025), premiered at the Cannes Film Festival’s Critics’ Week and won major international awards, including the Grand Jury Prize at the Rome Film Festival and the Grand Prize at the Warsaw Film Festival. Loquès’ cinema is characterized by an intimate, sensitive style, often focusing on human relationships, emotional transformations and pivotal moments in the lives of young adults. His films combine an intimate look at the characters with a visual sensitivity attentive to the details of everyday life.

Théodore Pellerin (Montreal, 1997) is one of the most interesting Canadian actors of his generation. Active in independent cinema, international productions and television, he has attracted critical attention with films such as Genesis, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, There’s Someone Inside Your House, Solo and Nino. Throughout his career, he has received numerous awards, including the Canadian Screen Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for Family First and several Prix Iris du Québec, including Best Actor for Solo. In 2026, he also won the César for Best Emerging Actor for Nino. His intense, natural performance makes him one of the most promising young actors of his generation.