EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based Losange Films has acquired international sales rights to Lila Pinell’s French title Shana, set to world premiere in Directors’ Fortnight at its upcoming 58th edition at the Cannes Film Festival.
Pinell’s second feature and her first solo effort stars Eva Huault as the titular Shana, a young woman who inherits a ring from her late grandmother that is meant to protect her from bad luck, which turns out to be ideal timing as her toxic partner has been released from prison and her misfortunes are piling up. Veteran actress Noemie Lvovsky co-stars.
Shana is produced by Emmanuel Chaumet of France’s Ecce Films and Charles Gillibert for his CG Cinema. Les Films du Losange will release the film in France.
The film is a feature adaptation of Pinell’s short Le Roi David, also starring Huault in the role that won the Grand Prix at the Clermont-Ferrand festival and the Jean Vigo Prize in 2021. Pinell previously co-directed the documentary Nos Fiancailles in 2012 and Kiss & Cry, which premiered in Cannes’ ACID strand in 2017 with long-time collaborator Chloe Mahieu.
Directors’ Fortnight artistic director Julien Rejl called the film “the type of comedy we like to see more of” when unveiling the selection’s 2026 line-up earlier today (April 14).
Losange Films is also heading to Cannes with Manuela Martelli’s The Meltdown in Un Certain Regard.
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