DUBAI: French Algerian actress Lyna Khoudri is at the Cannes Film Festival to promote her latest project, “In Waves.”
The actress attended a screening of the film before she headed to a red carpet event for “Fatherland,” by director Pawel Pawlikowski. The film “centers on the relationship between the Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika, actress, writer and rally driver. In the summer of 1949, at the height of the Cold War, father and daughter embark on a challenging and emotional road trip in a black Buick taking them across a Germany in ruins,” according to the logline.
Meanwhile, “In Waves” director Phuong Mai Nguyen’s animated adaptation of AJ Dungo’s graphic novel opened the 65th Cannes Critics’ Week. The film’s French-language version, which screened alongside the English feature, features voice work by Khoudri.
Cannes Critics’ Week is a sidebar that runs alongside the main Cannes festival from May 13-21.
“In Waves” is one of 11 features that is running in the section.
