The Little Sister (La Petite Dernière) is the third feature by actress-filmmaker Hafsia Herzi. This has been a remarkable year for Herzi. Not only did she win the César Award for Best Actress for Borgo earlier this year, but her own film The Little Sister premiered in Competition at Cannes, where it won Best Actress from a jury led by Juliette Binoche, as well as the Queer Palm.


Adapted from Fatima Daas’ 2020 autofiction novel The Last One, the film follows the coming out and coming of age of seventeen-year-old Fatima (Nadia Melliti) as she struggles to understand her sexuality. The youngest daughter in a French-Algerian family living in an immigrant-majority suburb, Fatima begins university in Paris while being pulled in different directions. Her religious background, her conservative household, her asthma, and her longing to feel wanted and loved all collide as she tries to understand herself.

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