Les Filles désir

The Girls We Want

Prïncia CAR

Quinzaine 2025 | Feature film | 93 min | France |

World premiere | Film in competition for the Caméra d'Or Award

Marseille, the holidays. Omar, 20, oversees the children summer camp with his longtime friends. The adolescents are full of dreams, principles, and prejudices. When Carmen returns after years being away, the group dynamic is put to the test. In a group where boys view girls as whore to fuck or chicks to marry and where reputation is everything, the electric and free spirit Carmen triggers everyone to question his own belief, desire, and sexuality.

Artistic & technical sheet

Contacts

With

Housam Mohamed (Omar), Leïa Haïchour (Yasmine), Lou Anna Hamon (Carmen), Kader Benchoudar (Tahar), Mortadha Hasni (Ismaël), Achraf Jamai (Ali), Nawed Selassie Said (Momo)

Screenplay

Prïncia Car, Léna Mardi

Sound

Florent Klokenbring

Music

Damien Bonnel et Kahina Ouali

Photography

Raphaël Vandenbussche

Editing

Flora Volpelière

Production design

Lili-Jeanne Benente

In 2018, Prïncia Car founded an alternative film school in Marseille. Since then, she has been teaching through various workshops and evening classes in the city’s northern districts, with the aim of integrating art and cinema into the daily lives of young people often excluded from cultural opportunities due to economic or educational challenges. Following in the footsteps of the theatre troupe founded by her parents, she created her own troupe of young people, with whom she has made numerous award-winning short films and music videos.