Forsaken
Synopsis
A few years after the tragic Charlie Hebdo attack, Samuel Paty, a dedicated teacher in a multicultural middle school on the outskirts of Paris, uses controversial cartoons to teach freedom of expression. Before displaying the caricatures of the Prophet, he gives students the option to leave the classroom if they do not wish to see them. Several choose to leave. But when a troubled girl falsely claims she was singled out and expelled for objecting, though she was absent that day, her outraged father’s viral reaction video ignites a firestorm. A local Islamist activist amplifies the outrage and leaks the teacher’s personal information, while an 18-year-old Chechen jihadist follows the online trail to the school gates. Samuel becomes a hunted man, isolated by some colleagues and supported by few, he is unaware that a fatwa against him is forming in the shadows of an enraged online. As tensions escalate and silence spreads, an ordinary lesson turns into a fatal spiral. In the aftermath, conflicting voices confront a devastating truth: how rumor, a click, and collective inaction can lead to the irreparable.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (48)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producers : Outside Films, Les Films du Kiosque
- Foreign production company : Umedia
- Film exports/foreign sales : UGC Distribution, STUDIO TF1 Cinéma
- French distribution : UGC Distribution
Full credits (16)
- Executive Producers : Stéphane Simon, Marion De Blaÿ, François Kraus, Denis Pineau-Valencienne
- Director of Photography : Renaud Chassaing
- Music Composer : Nicolas Errèra
- Assistant Director : Thierry Verrier
- Editor : Aurique Delannoy
- Sound Recordist : Rémi Daru
- Foreign producers : Cloé Garbay, Bastien Sirodot
- Author of original work : Stéphane Simon
- Production Manager : Alain Monne
- Press Attaché (film) : Laurent Renard
- Sound editors : Serge Rouquairol, Hélène Lelardoux
- Continuity supervisor : Yannick Charles
- Casting : Mathilde Snodgrass, Julie Gandossi
- Sound Mixer : Jean-Paul Hurier
- Unit Production Manager : Emmanuel Pihan
- Post-production supervisors : Coralie Cournil, Chantal Guyot
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : French
- Premier pays de production : France
- Production country : France (100.0%)
- Original French-language productions : Yes
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2026
- French release : 23/05/2026
- Runtime : 1 h 40 min
- Current status :
- Visa number : 162.213
- Approval : Yes
- Color type : Color
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