Summer Beats

Summer Beats

112 mins | Comedy | Jan. 7, 2026

Paris, a working-class neighborhood in the 19th arrondissement. Shaï and Djeneba are 19 years old and have been friends since childhood. One is burdened by an overbearing family. The other by deep loneliness. Over the course of a summer, they work as counselors at a summer camp, far from the tower blocks where they grew up—no longer quite children, yet officially responsible for a group of kids aged 6 to 10. On the cusp of adulthood, they will have to make choices to grow up and reinvent their friendship.

Summer Beats

112 mins | Comedy | Jan. 7, 2026

Summer Beats
Paris, a working-class neighborhood in the 19th arrondissement. Shaï and Djeneba are 19 years old and have been friends since childhood. One is burdened by an overbearing family. The other by deep loneliness. Over the course of a summer, they work as counselors at a summer camp, far from the tower blocks where they grew up—no longer quite children, yet officially responsible for a group of kids aged 6 to 10. On the cusp of adulthood, they will have to make choices to grow up and reinvent their friendship.
Producers France 3 Cinéma, StudioCanal, Auvergne Rhône-Alpes Cinéma, Superstructure
Original title Ma frère
Directors Manon Couse, Anaïs Coué, Benoit Seiller, Lise Akoka, Romane Gueret
Writers Catherine Paillé, Lise Akoka, Romane Gueret