# ‘The Green Eyes’ Is a Refugee Adventure Drama for Our Time (Exclusive Trailer)

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/the-green-eyes-is-a-refugee-adventure-drama-for-our-time-exclusive-trailer/
- Published: 2026-08-05T14:50:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-08-05T15:51:52+00:00
- Original publisher: The Hollywood Reporter
- Original article: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/the-green-eyes-film-trailer-les-yeux-verts-locarno-2026-1236664672/
- Topics: Americas, World

## Key points

- "The Green Eyes" opens Locarno Film Festival's 79th edition on Wednesday
- Drama tells a refugee child's story via Resignation Syndrome-inspired plot
- France-Belgium-Sweden co-production stars Douae Butarbuch M'Zaouki, Sayyid El Alami

## Summary

"The Green Eyes" ("Les Yeux Verts"), a refugee adventure drama by French writer-directors Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh, will open the 79th Locarno Film Festival on Wednesday evening with its world premiere on the Piazza Grande. The film matters as a rare attempt to tell a refugee story from a child's point of view, drawing on Resignation Syndrome, a real but rare condition in which traumatised refugee children fall into a coma-like withdrawal state, to explore themes of displacement and resilience.

The story follows 11-year-old Chaya and her family, refugees living in France's Landes region, whose brother Nour falls into a mysterious sleep when the family faces deportation; Chaya sets out to enter his dreams and wake him. The cast includes newcomer Douae Butarbuch M'Zaouki alongside Sayyid El Alami and Anamaria Vartolomei, with the screenplay co-written by the directors and Guillaume Laurant (Amélie). It is a France-Belgium-Sweden co-production, with Kinology handling international sales, and its Locarno premiere follows the presentation of an Excellence Award to Isabella Rossellini.

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