Arenas
18-year-old Brahim is a rising football star. Represented by his cousin, Mehdi, as his agent, his dream is within reach: he is about to sign his first professional contract at his prestigious hometown club in Lyon. But the arrival of a powerful foreign agent disrupts the negotiations. In a world where anything goes, even loyalty comes at a price.
Cast
- Brahim
- Iliès Kadri
- Mehdi
- Sofian Khammes
- Francis
- Edgar Ramirez
- Carmine
- Lorenzo Zurzolo
- Ariel
- Côme Levin
- Philippe Mattel
- Grégoire Colin
- Kian Kadjavi
- Tim Seyfi
- Yasmine
- Carima Amarouche
- Ilyan
- Chahine Brahim
- Samira
- Meriem Serbah
- Hawa
- Fatim-zahra Alam
Arenas
Camille Perton
- Fiction
- Production Country / Year
- France 2025
- Language
- frz. OF m. engl. UT
- Format
- DCP, Color, 100min
1.85:1, Discrete 5.1
- Original Title
- Les Arènes
Director & Crew
Camille Perton
Born in 1991 in Lyon/France. Studied Political Science. Worked as a director’s assistant in the theater. Studied Screenwriting at the Atelier Scénario of the Fémis film school. Active as a director and screenwriter.
Filmography
| 2016 | Passer les champs | Kurzfilm Co-Regie |
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| 2025 | Les arènes | Spielfilm | 2025 |
“I’ve always been a big football fan, and this project came about in
2015-2016, right after my short film. Back then, French clubs started
getting involved in trading. They began buying very young players, for
whom they had to pay outrageous bonuses even at the time the contracts
were signed. Their age and the sums involved really caught my attention.
I researched the background and focused on young players signing their
first contract. When they come to the training academies, they are
drilled to have only one dream and are told they are doomed to fail if
they get too distracted. While I understand the idea from a sporting
perspective, it is also destructive: most of them will never become
professionals. And what happens if it doesn’t work out? I felt like I had really stumbled upon an important topic here.”
- Writer
- Camille Perton
- Director of Photography
- Martin Roux
- Editor
- Cyrielle Thélot
- Production Designer
- Laurent Baude
- Costume Designer
- Léa Forest
- Cécile Laborda
- Casting Director
- Julie Allione
- Sound
- Margaux Peyre
- Music Composer
- Emmanuel Jessua
- Maurice Marius
- Make-up
- Béatrice Legal
- Producer
- Judith Lou Levy
- Eve Robin