M ontreal actor Charlotte Le Bon is set to launch her feature directorial debut in the Cannes Film Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight section.

Le Bon’s coming-of-age drama Falcon Lake (pictured) is a France-Canada coproduction produced by France’s Onzecinq, Cinefrance Studios and Montreal’s Metafilms. Tandem Films is handling French distribution and Sphère Films (formerly MK2 | Mile End) is the Canadian distributor for the film.

Le Bon (The Hundred-Foot Journey, Mood Indigo, The Walk) also wrote the majority French production, which is adapted from the Bastien Vives’ French graphic novel A Sister, about a Parisian teenager who falls in love while on a family summer trip to a Quebec lake where his mother grew up.

Falcon Lake was shot in the Laurentians of Quebec. The cast includes Monia Chokri, Jeff Roop, Karine Gonthier-Hyndman, Joseph Engel, Sara Montpetit, and Pierre-Luc Lafontaine.

The film received €250,000 (about C$340,000) in support from Eurimages in Europe as well as support from Quebec’s Société de développement des entreprises culturelles.

Le Bon previously wrote and directed a music video for recording artist Mottron and helmed the short film Judith Hotel.

The Directors’ Fortnight is the independent selection of Cannes, which runs May 18 to 27.

Last week Cannes announced Toronto-based auteur David Cronenberg’s sci-fi thriller Crimes of the Future will world premiere in competition at the festival.