Jeanne Herry's 2023 French drama All Your Faces puts victims of violent crime in the same room as the people who hurt them, and asks what happens next.
What is All Your Faces about?
The film follows a restorative justice circle where survivors of assault, robbery, and other violent offenses sit down with perpetrators who did not harm them directly but share their category of crime. Over a series of sessions, the group works through anger, shame, and the slow, uneven process of being heard. Jeanne Herry structures the film as an ensemble piece, moving between several parallel storylines rather than following a single lead, so the practice of restorative justice itself becomes the throughline. The cast includes Adèle Exarchopoulos, Élodie Bouchez, and Leïla Bekhti, alongside Dali Benssalah, Birane Ba, Suliane Brahim, Anne Benoît, and Jean-Pierre Darroussin, playing both sides of these encounters.
About the cast
The ensemble draws from a wide bench of contemporary French performers, with Adèle Exarchopoulos and Leïla Bekhti among the more internationally recognized names in a cast built around group scenes rather than a single star turn.
Context & significance
Restorative justice programs, which bring victims and offenders together in facilitated dialogue rather than through the courtroom alone, have grown as a subject for French cinema in recent years. All Your Faces arrived in 2023 to strong critical notice, part of a broader run of French dramas examining the justice system from angles beyond conviction and sentencing. The approach favors close, observational conversation over dramatic incident, letting each character's account of harm and responsibility unfold at its own pace across the film's 118 minutes.
Watching All Your Faces on Ktime
All Your Faces streams on K-Time with a Persian dub, so Farsi-speaking viewers can follow the group's conversations without relying on subtitles. Watching requires a free K-Time account login; the film's page itself is open to read without one. K-Time's interface and recommendations are built around Persian-language viewers in the diaspora.