The Successor

Director: Xavier Legrand

Cast: Marc-André Grondin, Yves Jacques, Laetitia Isambert-Denis

Ellias Barnès, 30, is the newly-announced artistic director of a famous Parisian fashion house. But as expectations are high, he starts experiencing chest pain. Out of the blue he is called back to Montreal to organise his estranged father's funeral and discovers that he may have inherited much worse than his father's weak heart.

Awards: San Sebastian International Film Festival in Competition