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\n\tDUBAI: \u201cIn Waves\u201d director Phuong Mai Nguyen\u2019s animated adaptation of AJ Dungo\u2019s graphic novel will open the 65th edition of Cannes Critics\u2019 Week. The film\u2019s French-language version, which will screen alongside the English feature, features voice work by French-Algerian actress Lyna Khoudri.<\/p>\n
\n\tCannes Critics\u2019 Week is a sidebar that runs alongside the main Cannes festival from May 13 – 21.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cIn Waves\u201d is one of 11 features that will run in the section.<\/p>\n
<\/blockquote>\n\n\tWill Sharpe and Stephanie Hsu head up the voice cast for the English-language version, while Khoudri, Rio Vega, Paul Kirscher and Biran Ba can be heard in the French take.<\/p>\n
\n\tInspired by Dungo\u2019s real-life love story, the film is set in California and follows a skateboarder and a surfer who find their relationship tested by illness.<\/p>\n
\n\tKhoudri is a regular at the Cannes Film Festival and was on hand in the French Riviera in 2025 when her film \u201cEagles of the Republic\u201d premiered at the 78th iteration of the event.<\/p>\n
\n\tDirected by Swedish-Egyptian filmmaker Tarik Saleh, the film is the final chapter in his acclaimed \u201cCairo Trilogy,\u201d which includes \u201cThe Nile Hilton Incident\u201d (2017) and \u201cBoy from Heaven\u201d (2022), the latter earning him the award for best screenplay at Cannes.<\/p>\n
\n\tSet in Cairo, \u201cEagles of the Republic\u201d follows George El-Nabawi, a fading movie star who reluctantly agrees to play a role in a political biopic.<\/p>\n
\n\tKhoudri, 33, first rose to prominence in her role as Nedjma in Mounia Meddour\u2019s critically acclaimed drama \u201cPapicha.\u201d For her work in the film, she won the Orizzonti Award for best actress at the 74th Venice Film Festival, and she was nominated in the Cesar Awards\u2019 most promising actress category.<\/p>\n
\n\tKhoudri also starred in the 2019 mini-series \u201cLes Sauvages\u201d and in 2016\u2019s \u201cBlood on the Docks.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tShe was also cast in Wes Anderson\u2019s 2021 comedy \u201cThe French Dispatch\u201d alongside Timothee Chalamet, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton and Owen Wilson.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe actress also stars in Martin Bourboulon\u2019s Afghanistan evacuation drama \u201cIn the Hell of Kabul: 13 Days, 13 Nights,\u201d alongside Danish Bafta-winning \u201cBorgen\u201d star Sidse Babett Knudsen, Roschdy Zem (\u201cChocolat,\u201d \u201cOh Mercy!\u201d), and theater actor Christophe Montenez.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n