{"id":5644,"date":"2026-10-13T01:02:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T05:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/english\/quand-le-monde-nous-regardera-en-premiere-mondiale-au-fnc-de-montreal-le-jeune-realisateur-francais-theo-hellermann-transforme-une-classe-en-miroir-de-notre-monde\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T01:02:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T05:02:49","slug":"quand-le-monde-nous-regardera-en-premiere-mondiale-au-fnc-de-montreal-le-jeune-realisateur-francais-theo-hellermann-transforme-une-classe-en-miroir-de-notre-monde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/english\/quand-le-monde-nous-regardera-en-premiere-mondiale-au-fnc-de-montreal-le-jeune-realisateur-francais-theo-hellermann-transforme-une-classe-en-miroir-de-notre-monde\/","title":{"rendered":"When the World Is Watching Us premieres at the FNC in Montreal, young French director Th\u00e9o Hellermann transforms a classroom into a mirror of our world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" post-id=\"90913\" fifulocal-featured=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-90914 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Theo-Hellermann-au-55e-FNC-2026.jpg\" alt=\"Quand le monde nous regardera en premi\u00e8re mondiale au FNC de Montr\u00e9al, le jeune r\u00e9alisateur fran\u00e7ais Th\u00e9o Hellermann transforme une classe en miroir de notre monde\" title=\"Quand le monde nous regardera en premi\u00e8re mondiale au FNC de Montr\u00e9al, le jeune r\u00e9alisateur fran\u00e7ais Th\u00e9o Hellermann transforme une classe en miroir de notre monde\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Theo-Hellermann-au-55e-FNC-2026.jpg 800w, https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Theo-Hellermann-au-55e-FNC-2026-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Theo-Hellermann-au-55e-FNC-2026-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/><br \/>\nTh\u00e9o Hellermann at the 55th Festival du Nouveau Cin\u00e9ma 2026<\/p>\n<p>Both intense and disconcerting, the first feature film by young French director Th\u00e9o Hellermann, presented as a world premiere at the 55th edition of the Festival du nouveau cin\u00e9ma (FNC), keeps us in suspense for the duration of a bustling class. Undermined by harassment and intimidation, a class on the verge of implosion becomes the place to examine the fractures in our world.<\/p>\n<p>A chaotic class, students calling out to each other, discussions that degenerate and a teacher who is struggling to regain control. It is in this electric climate that a history teacher at the Duclaux high school in Aurillac manages to slowly re-establish his class to engage his students in a debate on democracy. This is when this fiction, inspired by personal experience, becomes interesting. A class which reflects, which debates, even which institutes, although it is always with violence! The heated discussion gradually broadens to questions that go far beyond the walls of the school: freedom of expression, class struggle, capitalism, power, inequalities, the North-South relationship, social networks and, above all, the very need to debate. The natural play of the protagonists brings out a striking paradox. While students struggle to respect and get along with each other, they are invited to think about the foundations of living together. The debate then goes beyond a simple academic exercise to become an attempt to renew dialogue in a hyperconnected, but paradoxically isolated, world!<\/p><div id=\"linit-2718271170\" class=\"linit-dans-le-contenu linit-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-8992136571741975\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px;\" \ndata-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8992136571741975\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"6185130430\"><\/ins> \n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-90915 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Quand-le-monde-nous-regardera.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Quand-le-monde-nous-regardera.jpg 800w, https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Quand-le-monde-nous-regardera-768x376.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The class imagined by Hellermann looks like a miniature of our world riddled with inequalities and indifference. As the director emphasized during the discussion with the public after the screening, violence does not appear out of nowhere: it is rooted in contempt, exclusion and the refusal to recognize the other. When an individual is constantly denied, trampled on or deprived of the opportunity to be heard, violence can become, in their eyes, a final means of existence. The film explores this mechanism without justifying the act. Rather, it invites us to question the factors that lead to escalation, as well as the responsibility of those who watch without intervening. This reflection takes on a moving dimension in this social thriller through Gabriel, a high school student in his final year, victim of harassment and intimidation. Through dreamlike sequences, imbued with fantasy, the film gives us access to his inner world, his thoughts and his torments to grasp his suffering which those around him seem to deliberately ignore. Such a process gives the story a disturbing authenticity and a particular emotional depth, especially since the filmmaker, through the character of Gabriel, revisits his personal experience, he tells us, which gives his work a cathartic dimension.<\/p>\n<p>The distribution gives depth to this impression of truth. In addition to Th\u00e9o Hellermann, who lends his features to Gabriel, Fred Testot brilliantly plays the history teacher, while Lucas Englander, Noham Edje, Gina Jimenez, Myriam Djeljeli and Pierre Gomm\u00e9 masterfully bring to life a bustling school universe.<\/p>\n<p>The strength of the film also lies in its staging, which aptly exploits the codes of cinema behind closed doors. The acting, natural and almost raw, gives the impression that the camera is capturing a class left to itself, without artifice or alteration. The dialogues flow, the tensions are exacerbated and the jerky rhythm, supported by the multiplication of viewing angles, intensely reproduces the brutality of the exchanges.<\/p>\n<p>By tackling school bullying and exclusion, Th\u00e9o Hellermann&rsquo;s first feature film resonates with the high school crisis that is shaking France. The film does not claim to summarize a complex crisis, but it sheds light on an essential dimension. Exclusion and inequalities can fuel violence when a society stops looking at those it marginalizes!<\/p>\n<p>Sofiane Idir<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"screen-reader-text\">Article navigation<\/h2>\n<div id=\"linit-312564956\" class=\"linit-apres-contenu linit-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-8992136571741975\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px;\" \ndata-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8992136571741975\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"6185130430\"><\/ins> \n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Th\u00e9o Hellermann at the 55th Festival du Nouveau Cin\u00e9ma 2026 Both intense and disconcerting, the first feature film by young French director Th\u00e9o Hellermann, presented as a world premiere at the 55th edition of the Festival du nouveau cin\u00e9ma (FNC), keeps us in suspense for the duration of a bustling class. 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