Director: Abdellatif Kechiche

Cast: Shaïn Boumedine, Jodi Taylor, Salim Kéchiouche, André Jacobs, Ophélie Bau

Mektoub My Love Canto Due is a 2025 French drama-romance film directed by Abdellatif Kechiche, continuing his sun-drenched Mediterranean saga. Set on the beaches and in the bars of Sète, it follows Amin as his quiet creative ambitions collide with the unpredictable currents of desire, friendship, and chance encounters.

What is Mektoub My Love Canto Due about?

Back in the seaside town of Sète after a stint studying in Paris, Amin carries his filmmaker's eye everywhere — watching, waiting, finding stories in the people around him. A lucky encounter brings an American producer into his orbit, a man whose wife Jess strikes the producer as the ideal lead for Amin's unfinished project. What follows is a summer charged with possibility and hesitation: creative doors creak open while personal entanglements multiply. Kechiche frames these days in the unhurried rhythms of beach life, afternoon wine, and conversations that blur into flirtation. The film refuses easy resolution, trusting instead in accumulation — in the weight of glances, the pull of music, the particular texture of wanting something without knowing whether to reach for it.

Cast & crew

The film is directed by Abdellatif Kechiche, the French-Tunisian auteur known for immersive, naturalistic ensemble work. Shaïn Boumedine returns as the reflective Amin, anchoring the film's observational gaze. Jodi Taylor, Salim Kéchiouche, Ophélie Bau, André Jacobs, Dany Martial, Delinda Kechiche, and Alexia Chardard fill out an ensemble that Kechiche draws into extended, loosely choreographed scenes.

Context & significance

For Persian-speaking viewers in the diaspora, Mektoub My Love Canto Due offers something beyond its French-beach setting: the story of an artist caught between where he studied and where he grew up, between ambition and the pull of a slower life, echoes experiences many diaspora viewers know intimately. Kechiche's North African roots give the film a Mediterranean sensibility that resonates with Iranian viewers attuned to that in-between cultural space. The film is available with both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles on K-Time, so viewers can choose the experience that suits them.

Where & how to watch

Mektoub My Love Canto Due is available now on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles. Watch on the web, on your TV, or on your phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, no extra download required. Start watching anytime and cancel anytime.