Les Films de Cannes à Bucarest
Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes 2026
Original language: French, Romanian
Subtitles: Romanian, English
Directed by: Radu Jude
Country: France, Romania
Year of production: 2026
Length: 94 minutes
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Gianina, a young Romanian, works as a housekeeper for a bourgeois family in Bordeaux. In the evenings, she rehearses the role of a maid with an amateur theater troupe in an adaptation of The Diary of a Chambermaid by Octave Mirbeau. She takes care of Louen, her employers’ son, while her own daughter is growing up far from her, in Romania. The maternal absence deepens into a wound but, as Christmas approaches, the promise of a reunion begins to take shape.
Credits
Radu Jude – Director
Radu Jude – Script
Casting
Ana Dumitrașcu
Mélanie Thierry
Vincent Macaigne
Marie Rivière
Louen Bouteiller
Ilinca Manolache
