Placés

Placés (2022) is a French comedy-drama you can watch online on iFILM. It's the debut feature from director Nessim Chikhaoui, about a young man whose plans get derailed by one small slip-up. Shaïn Boumedine plays the lead.

Elias is set to sit the entrance exam for the prestigious Sciences Po — then forgets his ID card and misses his shot. With months to kill before he can try again, he takes a job as a youth worker at a children's home. The place is foreign to him, the rules unclear, and the kids, each carrying a rough past, are quick to test the new guy. What he expects to be a stopgap quietly starts to rewrite his future.

Warm and bittersweet, shot with real feel for the inside of France's group homes. It never turns saccharine — the troubled teens are people, not props for a tidy lesson. One for fans of humane French drama. Stream Placés (2022) online on iFILM.