ARI (France-Belgium, 2025, 88′)

Thursday, September 25th, at 9 p.m.; Cinema Teatro Monterosa, Via Brandizzo, 65

Pre-opening of Job Film Days 2025 in partnership with Cinema Teatro Monterosa

The collaboration with Cinema Teatro Monterosa is consolidated this year with the pre-opening of the Festival in its historic theater. On Thursday, September 25th, at 9:00 p.m., Job Film Days presents Ari by Léonor Sérraille , screened at the last edition of the Berlinale. This movie depicts an intense portrait of a young man and of the generation of twenty-and thirty-year-olds whose lives are suspended in uncertainty and divided between the desire for freedom and the weight of modern life. The screening will be preceded by greetings from the Authorities of Districts 1 and 6 of the City of Turin.

Admission method : you can access it by purchasing tickets at the Cinema Teatro Monterosa box office.

International title: Ari
Original title: Ari
Director, screenplay: Léonor Serraille
Photography: Sébastien Buchmann
Editing: Clémence Carré
Starring: Andranic Manet, Pascal Rénéric, Théo Delezenne, Ryad Ferrad, Eva Lallier
Production: Geko Films, Blue Monday Productions

Ari is 27 years old and is doing an internship in an elementary school to become a teacher. He has his own way of dealing with kids and one day, while he is in the classroom, he faints. His seniors prevent him from continuing his internship training and not only does Ari lose the job, but he also gets kicked out of the house by his father, who deems him an incompetent. Holding the memory of his mother very dear, now Ari has to rethink his entire life and manage to confront himself with different challenges. Emotionally raw and alone, he reluctantly forces himself to rebuild a relationship with his old friends who, now adults, took different paths. However, Ari is keeping a secret that progressively makes room in his days in search of social, working and sentimental inclusion.

Léonor Serraille (Lyon, 1986), director and screenwriter, studied at La Fémis school of cinema in Paris. After graduating, she shot the medium length film Body in 16mm. Based on her screenplay thesis, in 2017 her debut long feature film Montparnasse – Femminile singolare (Jeune femme) won the Caméra d’or Award for Best Debut at Cannes Festival. At Cannes she also presented her second movie, Due fratelli (Un petit frère). Ari competed in the Berlinale 2025.

Filmography: Body (mlf, 2016), Montparnasse – Femminile singolare (2017), Due fratelli (2022), Ari (2025).