At Cannes 2026, coming-of-age stories dominate the program, with Marine Atlan's **La Gradiva** standing out as the winner of the Critic's Week Grand Prize. The film follows French graduating students on a school trip to Naples and Pompeii, with Atlan's documentary style credibly capturing the subtle shifts between teenagers. Maxence Voiseux's documentary **Gabin** traces ten years in the life of a boy trapped between his father's butcher shop and his mother's cattle farm, while Kohei Kadowaki, in the animated film **We Are Aliens**, transforms school memories into an intelligent portrait of minor cruelties. Bruno Dumont's **Les roches rouges** brings together four- and five-year-old preschoolers in a colorful landscape drama.

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