Job Film Days 2026 awards ceremony – Closing film

Ulysse (France, 2026, 97′)

Italian subtitles / English subtitles

Sunday 11 October, 8 p.m., Cinema Massimo, Screen 1, Via Giuseppe Verdi, 18

The closing night of the seventh edition of Job Film Days takes place on Sunday 11 October at 8 p.m. at Cinema Massimo, Screen 1.

The evening includes the awards ceremony for the Festival’s competitive sections: the international competition for documentaries and fiction features exploring different aspects of the world of work, the “Lavoro 2026” JFD – INAIL Piemonte International Film Award; and the competition for short films made in the European Union by directors under 40, exploring emerging jobs and the challenges of contemporary work, the “Job for the Future 2026” JFD – Camera di commercio di Torino Award.

Prizes will also be awarded to the best film treatments on the theme of work developed during the “Dall’idea al soggetto Job Film Days 2026” writing workshop. The awards are supported by Ordine dei Consulenti del Lavoro di Torino and Aurora Penne – Officina della scrittura.

The audience will then be able to watch the closing film, Ulysse (France, 2026, 97′) by Laetitia Masson, presented in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival. Inspired by the director’s personal story, the film follows Ulysse, who was born with a genetic syndrome that limits his movement, and his mother Alice as she strives to give her son the possibility of an independent future. The adult Ulysse is played by the director’s son, Alphonse Roberts, who brings his own experience to the screen through fiction.

The evening is hosted by Stefania Rosso (actress).

Admission: free, subject to seat availability.

Original title: Ulysse 
International title:Ulysse 
Director, screenplay: Laetitia Masson 
Photography: Emmanuelle Collinot 
Edit: Alexandre Auque 
Cast: Élodie Bouchez, Stanislas Merhar, Alphonse Roberts, Romane Bohringer 
Production: ARP Sélection

In the spirit of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, Laetitia Masson’s ninth long feature film as a director centers the story on Ulysse, born with a genetic syndrome. His physical disability needs to be always monitored; the exercises and the examinations must be constant. His parents – the mother, Alice, a sociology researcher, the father, Vladimir, a pianist – understand soon enough their son is different from others, with a size and weight below average. A red sand hourglass marks the passing years. The situation seems like a labyrinth without an exit, but in the end, a glimmer of hope appears when Ulysse is hired at a local bar. Inspired by the director’s life story, the movie stars Masson Alphonse Roberts’ son as the adult Ulysse who, through fiction, brings his true self to the screen. The cast presents a compelling Élodie Bouchez, one of the contemporary French movie stars, as the mother. Ulysse it was presented at Cannes Film Festival 2026 in the ‘Un certain regard’ section.

Laetitia Masson.Born in Épinal in 1966, she is a French director, actress and screenwriter, daughter of cinephile teachers. She spent her childhood and teenage years in Nancy. She moved to Paris to study literature and cinema before enrolling herself to Femis. Co-writer of Cédric Kahn’s Les Bar des Binaires (1991), in 1993, after several short films, she directed the medium-length film Nulle Part.  Her debut long feature film from 1995, En avoir (ou pas), is the first movie of a trilogy starring Sandrine Kiberlain. 

Partial filmography: En avoir (ou pas) (1995), À vendre – In vendita (1998), Love Me (2000), La repentie (2002), Pouquoi (pas) le Brésil (2004), Coupable (2008), GHB: To Be or Not to Be (2014), Un hiver en été (2022), Ulysse (2026).