Director: Sébastien Tulard
Pastry making pulls a boy raised between foster homes toward one clear goal in Under the Stars, Sébastien Tulard's 2023 French drama about ambition built out of an unstable childhood.
What is Under the Stars about?
Yazid grew up moving between foster placements and group homes, but one thing stayed constant: his fascination with pastry making. As a teenager he sets his sights on training alongside some of the country's most respected pastry chefs, hoping the craft can give him the stability and identity his childhood never provided. The film follows his uneven path toward that goal, tracking the mentors, setbacks, and small victories that shape a kid without a steady home into a serious chef.
Cast & crew
Riadh Belaïche plays Yazid, supported by Loubna Abidar, Patrick d'Assumçao, Christine Citti, Alioune Sané, Frédéric Fix, Pascal Légitimus, and Dicosh. Sébastien Tulard directs, keeping the camera close to Yazid's daily routines in the kitchen rather than turning his story into a simple rags-to-riches montage.
Context & significance
Released in 2023, Under the Stars is a French production that treats the pastry world with the same seriousness other films reserve for elite sports or music competitions. Its interest in the foster-care system and in a young man building a craft identity from scratch places it alongside a wider run of European coming-of-age dramas that look past family structure to focus on mentorship and skill. The kitchen scenes double as a workplace drama, showing how exacting standards and small daily routines can become the backbone of a life that otherwise lacked one.
Where & how to watch
K-Time streams the film with a Farsi dub, giving Persian-speaking viewers a way to follow Yazid's story in their own language. This page is free to read without logging in, and watching the film only requires a free K-Time account, part of a Farsi-first streaming experience built for the Iranian diaspora. The dub keeps the kitchen dialogue and mentorship scenes easy to follow without needing to read along.