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Gessica Généus’s second feature film, Marie Madeleine, was showing at the Cannes Festival for its world premiere on Thursday, May 14, 2026.
The second feature film by Gessica Généus, Marie Madeleine, was showing at the Cannes Film Festival for its world premiere on Thursday, May 14, 2026. Screened in the Debussy room at the Palais des Festivals, Marie Madeleine was sold out at Cannes Première.
Just out of the Debussy room, where the film was shown to an audience of 1,200 cinephiles, Frantz Duval found a Gessica Généus both moved and overjoyed on the Croisette that Thursday evening. “I feel relieved. I am relieved that the screening went well,” the director reacted immediately, admitting that she experienced the full range of emotions during the screening.After Freda in 2021, Marie Madeleine won over the festival-goers who had the opportunity to see the film. The 103-minute feature dives into the atmosphere of Jacmel, in the Southeast of Haiti, where Marie Madeleine, a free woman, played by Gessica Généus, lives off prostitution, without worrying about the rules of those who intend to impose a certain morality on her. In this setting, where a church and a brothel coexist, Marie Madeleine forms a relationship with Joseph, the putative son of the pastor. A rapprochement between two diametrically opposed worlds. From this relationship, desire, belief, and the quest for freedom are depicted.
