Release in 2025

  • Directed by

    Lawrence Valin

  • Written by

    Lawrence Valin
    Malysone Bovorasmy
    Marlène Poste
    Gaëlle Macé
    Arthur Beaupère
    Yacine Badday

  • Production

    Marc Bordure - Agat Films
    Simon Bleuzé - Mean Streets

  • Coproduction

    Zinc.
    France 2

  • With the support of

    Fondation Gan pour le cinéma

Little Jaffna

Lawrence Valin

Lawrence Valin took part in Le Groupe Ouest’s Annual Selection for the development of this feature film.

Synopsis

In 2008 in Paris, Michael Beaulieu, a young cop from the ghetto is appointed by the DCRI (French Central Directorate of Internal Intelligence) to infiltrate a Tamil separatist organisation, in order to bring down one of its biggest fundraisers. But by diving into this community, Michael will gradually identify with those he must destroy…

Prix

  • Closing Film – 2024 Venice Critics’ Week
  • Toronto International Film Festival 2024 / Centrepiece
  • Best Actor Award & Young People’s Jury Award / Festival International du Film de Saint Jean de Luz 2024
  • Grand Prix / Prix du Scénario 2023
  • Aide à la Création / Fondation Gan pour le Cinéma 2023

Sélections

  • Festival Premiers Plans d’Angers dans la compétition Longs Métrages Européens

A film by...

Lawrence Valin

Writer-director