Commendation of the Ecumenical Jury, Warsaw 2025

Nino, who has just turned 29, learns rather by chance during an examination that he has cancer and needs urgent treatment. He has three days over the weekend to prepare himself and find someone to accompany him to his first chemotherapy session. The director's debut feature film captivates viewers with its Canadian lead actor Théodore Pellerin and its observational style of filmmaking. On his three-day journey through the anonymous cityscapes of Paris, oscillating between silent despair and stoic composure, Nino encounters many people who have their own destinies to bear and, like Nino, are hardly able to communicate. A film carried by compassion and great humanity, it shows that there are also true friends, tenderness, and mutual understanding.