Jean-Christophe Folly

Simone believes she is a lesbian and even has a secret girlfriend. But things get complicated when she suddenly finds herself attracted to a man.

Train driver and single father Lionel and his student daughter Josephine share a flat. Upstairs lives Noe, for whom Josephine has a thing. Along the corridor, taxi driver Gabrielle has carried a torch for Lionel for years.

Beautifully tender and deeply moving, Mother and Son is a vibrant portrait of a family told from multiple perspectives. Centred on a young mother and her two sons after their move from the Ivory Coast to France, the film is an impassioned tale of shifting tensions and identity from writer-director Léonor Serraille (Jeune Femme).