Summer Beats 

Three years after their debut film, The Worst Ones, which screened to great success at the Arava festival, directing duo Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret returned to Cannes this year with Summer Beats, a smart and moving coming-of-age drama. Here they continue to explore the lives of France’s working-class youth, this time through two 19-year-old friends who take jobs as counselors at a summer camp. Far from the tower blocks where they grew up, newfound responsibility collides with the urge to break away and dreams of a different future. On the cusp of adulthood, they will have to make choices to grow up and reinvent their friendship.