September Says

Sisters September and July share an intense bond, speaking in a secret language and keeping the outside world at a distance. After September is suspended from school, their mother brings them to a remote house on the Irish coast—where July begins to resist her sister’s increasingly sadistic control.

Keywords

  • Best first feature
  • Cannes: Un Certain Regard
  • Coming of Age
  • Family business
  • Festival de Cannes
  • Film Fest Gent !
  • Film Fest Gent (home)
  • relationship

Actors

  • Mia Tharia
  • Pascale Kann
  • Rakhee Thakrar
  • Cal O'Driscoll
  • Niamh Moriarty

Director

  • Ariane Labed

Drama


1h 40min


-12

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Germany
Ireland
United Kingdom
France
2025
When September is suspended from their school, her sister July begins to assert her own independence. Tension in the family builds.

When September is suspended from their school, her sister July begins to assert her own independence. Tension in the family builds.


Sisters September and July share an intense bond, speaking in a secret language and keeping the outside world at a distance. After September is suspended from school, their mother brings them to a remote house on the Irish coast—where July begins to resist her sister’s increasingly sadistic control.

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