“I’ll Be Gone in June”, the debut feature by Katharina Rivilis, has been selected for the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival 2026.

Katharina participated and developed the project in MFI’s Script2Film Workshops 2021, is a German-Swiss co-production by Road Movies, Wolfskind Films and 8horses. It is produced by Léa Germain and Wim Wenders alongside Clemens Köstlin, Andrea Kuehnel and Vincent Savino. Co-produced by Katharina Rivilis, Olga Lamontanara and Simon Jaquemet.

The film was also recently acquired by sales company Luxbox and is distributed in Germany and Switzerland by DCM.

The story follows Franny, a sixteen-year-old German student in search of freedom and the American dream. Assigned to a small town in the New Mexico desert, her stay unfolds against the backdrop of the September 11 attacks, in a context shaped by both personal and collective transformation.

Congratulations to Katharina and everyone involved in the creation of the film!