Gradiva, the insightful and deeply moving winner of the Cannes Critics' Week, uses a unique language poised between the real and the poetic to capture the fleeting moment of life when you are no longer quite a child, but not yet an adult. French director Marine Atlan takes the title of her award-winning feature debut from the novel by Wilhelm Jensen, which also served as the basis for Freud's 1907 essay on psychoanalysis, inviting viewers into the rich inner world of adolescents torn between their own desires and fears.

Following Cannes, the film was screened at Karlovy Vary and Toronto, and it received the d’Ornano-Valenti Prize in Deauville. It is competing in the main program at ZFF. Variety called it a "brutally tender portrait of adolescent hopes and vulnerabilities that heralds the arrival of a major new director." The film stars Colas Quignard, Antonia Buresi, Suzanne Gerin, and Mitia Capellier-Audat.

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