EXCLUSIVE: Celluloid Dreams has taken international sales rights for French director Paul Nouhet’s Rewind Barcelona ( Barça Zou ) ahead of its world premiere in Cannes parallel section ACID .

The film follows a trip to Barcelona, the mecca of skateboarding, by four friends on their first independent trip to together as they turn 18. A decade later, they reunite and reminisce about the holiday which helped shaped them and their friendships today.

Rewind Barcelona grew out of Nouhet’s 2023 medium-length autobiographical work Salut Les Zins , in which he revisited his adolescence as an avid skateboarder in Bordeaux.

Nouhet and his real-life friends Emile Pierre, Edouard Hascoët and Léo Cholet appeared as themselves with actors playing them as 13-year-olds.…