PROGRAM 2025
Feature Competition
LE ROYAUME
(THE KINGDOM)
Director: Julien Colonna
16+
Duration: 108 min
Year: 2024
Country: France
Genre: Drama / Thriller
AWARDS
Silver Star, Feature Narrative Competition / El Gouna Film Festival
NOMINATIONS
Golden Camera / Cannes Film Festival
Un Certain Regard Award / Cannes Film Festival
Best Film / Sitges Film Festival, Òrbita Section
Best Film / Zurich Film Festival
SYNOPSIS
Corsica, 1995. It's Lesia's (Ghjuvanna Benedetti) first summer as a teenager. One day, a man bursts into her life and takes her to a secluded villa, where her father is hiding with his clan. A war breaks out, death looms, a chase ensues, and forced to flee, father and daughter will learn to know each other.

BIOGRAPHY
Julien Colonna is a screenwriter, director, and photographer. With a Master’s in Social Sciences from Paris-IX Dauphine, he transitioned to filmmaking, earning acclaim with shorts like CONFESSION, which won awards at over twenty festivals. Collaborating globally with talents such as Hugh Jackman and Luo Yang, his work has been featured by Dazed and Nowness. His debut feature screenplay, EQUINOXES, won the Télérama ‘Coup de coeur’ Sopadin Award. Julien’s directorial debut, LE ROYAUME, co-written with Jeanne Herry, will premiere at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival in Un Certain Regard.