Peur de Rien

The 18-year old Lebanese Lina leaves her native Beirut in order to escape from the tightness of her estranged family and to enjoy the freedom of the life as a college student in modern Paris. However, as exciting as this new world may seem to her, she is suddenly also confronted with racist prejudices and the macho behaviour of her first lovers – until she starts to take her destiny into her own hands. Carried by the impressive screen presence oft he Lebanese-French leading actress Manal Issa, who was discovered for the film through her social media profile, Peur de Rien excels “fearlessly“, as promised by the film title with the unsparing display of modern everyday sexism which we all have got used to way too much.