ROBIN CAMPILLO ENZO

France, Belgium, Italy 2025, directed by Robin Campillo 102 minutes, starring Eloy Pohu, Pierfrancesco Favino, Élodie Bouchez, Maksym Slivinskyi, Nathan Japy, Original French version with German subtitles, for ages 16 and up

Garden of the vPST Ethnological Museum, Hauptstraße 235, 69117 Heidelberg, admission €12, reduced rate €9, members Media Forum €8; advance ticket sales online: www.fi lmtagemittelmeer.de

It’s the height of summer on the Côte d’Azur, in a house with a pool and a view of the sea. Enzo, 16, is supposed to finish high school and go to college, as is customary. But in silent protest against his own bourgeois background, he takes a job on a construction site—much to his family’s dismay. But his new boss is also dissatisfied with Enzo, because even
he struggles with the simplest manual tasks. The boy feels much more at ease with his older colleague Vlad from Ukraine. The worker becomes the male role model that the sheltered, privileged child may have always lacked—but entirely different feelings come to the surface and complicate everything.

Who am I if I don’t really belong anywhere? The sun-drenched, wistful images of a Southern European summer are vaguely reminiscent of *Call Me by Your Name*, but ENZO offers a fundamentally honest look at coming of age—with all the youthful unease that comes with it: regarding one’s own identity, one’s own feelings, and one’s own political awareness. In 2025, the film opened the Quinzaine des Cinéastes section at Cannes.