{"id":803714,"date":"2026-08-05T17:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T17:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/803714\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T17:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T17:14:08","slug":"the-green-eyes-film-trailer-refugee-adventure-drama-opens-locarno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/803714\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Green Eyes’ Film Trailer: Refugee Adventure Drama Opens Locarno"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMaybe we would all benefit from getting a chance to see the world through a child\u2019s eyes every now and then. And maybe we would question some of our views and feel more empathy if we got a chance to see the world through a refugee child\u2019s eyes. French writers-directors Fanny Liatard and J\u00e9r\u00e9my Trouilh are giving us the chance to experience this child\u2019s perspective in\u00a0Les Yeux Verts\u00a0(The Green Eyes), which opens the 79th edition<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0Locarno Film Festival<\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday evening. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe refugee adventure drama, world-premiering on the big square, the Piazza Grande, of the Swiss city, after the presentation of the Excellence Award to Isabella Rossellini<\/a>, is inspired by Resignation Syndrome, a rare condition that sees psychologically traumatized refugee children fall into a coma-like state of deep withdrawal and unresponsiveness.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Green Eyes revolves around Chaya, 11, and her family. The refugee family lives in the Landes region of France. When it faces deportation, Chaya\u2019s older brother Nour falls into a deep and mysterious sleep. \u201cChaya will do everything she can to wake him up, even going so far as to dive into his dreams to find him,\u201d a synopsis teases the journey ahead.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cLes Yeux Verts\u00a0is an adventure, a story of resilience told from a child\u2019s perspective and set against the backdrop of a turbulent world in which they are trying to find their place,\u201d Liatard and Trouilh highlight in a joint directors\u2019 note.<\/p>\n

\n\tStarring newcomer Douae Butarbuch M\u2019Zaouki, Sayyid El Alami (Messiah,\u00a0A Gentleman in Moscow) and Anamaria Vartolomei (Happening,\u00a0Mickey 17), the co-production between France, Belgium, and Sweden is based on a screenplay that the directors (Gagarine) wrote together with Guillaume Laurant (Am\u00e9lie). With cinematography by Victor Seguin and editing by Tina Baz and Daniel Darmon, the film has a Swiss distributor in Filmcoopi Z\u00fcrich. Kinology is handling\u00a0international<\/a>\u00a0sales.<\/p>\n

\n\tAhead of its world premiere that will kick off Locarno 2026<\/a>, THR can exclusively premiere a trailer for The Green Eyes below. You will get a first look at Chaya and a first sense of the adventure that awaits her. The only question left to answer is: Are you ready to dive into a cinematic experience that allows you to see a chaotic world through a child\u2019s eyes?<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maybe we would all benefit from getting a chance to see the world through a child\u2019s eyes every…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,2091,325692,44825,206],"class_list":["post-803714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-international","tag-locarno-2026","tag-locarno-film-festival","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}