'No Waves') is a 2024 drama film[7] directed by Teddy Lussi-Modeste from a screenplay he co-wrote with Audrey Diwan inspired by a true story that happened to the director in 2020, starring François Civil as a high school teacher who is wrongfully accused of sexual harassment by one of his students, a teenage girl, and must fight to prove his innocence.
At the same time, Julien is hiding his homosexuality from his students and colleagues, until an intimate video that reveals his secret is leaked and begins circulating in the school, which ends up amplifying the spiral of violence against him.
The screenplay was co-written by Teddy Lussi-Modeste and Audrey Diwan,[1] inspired by Lussi-Modeste's own experience when he was a French teacher at a school in Aubervilliers, in the Seine-Saint-Denis department in the northeastern suburbs of Paris, and was wrongfully accused of harassing a 13-year-old female student in 2020.
[11] "All the teachers then went on strike, there were death threats, complaints to the police station...", explained the film's producer, Jean-Christophe Reymond, on what happened to Lussi-Modeste at the time.
[11] The film is part of the movement for teachers' freedom of speech in the face of the feeling of abandonment by their hierarchy.