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REST IN PEACE.. IF YOU CAN !

REPOSE EN PAIX, SI TU PEUX!

By Charly ONGOLO, Michel NOGARA

VISIBLE FILM - as SALES All rights, World

Family - Completed 2025

A sharp-edged but heartful, fast-paced hood comedy about death, diversity, identity, and the absurd politics of how to bury your loved ones.

- Year of production
- 2025
- Genres
- Family, Black comedy
- Countries
- FRANCE
- Languages
- FRENCH
- Duration
- 84 mn
- Director(s)
- Charly ONGOLO, Michel NOGARA
- Cast
- Waly DIA, Walid BEN MABROUK
- Producer(s)
- Charly ONGOLO (Shaolin Shadow), Dosimao MPUNGA, Nyobe NYAME
- Synopsis
- Karim, a bright student straddling two worlds— the business school and his life in the suburbian Projects—has learned to navigate between ambition and loyalty, prestige and roots. But everything tilts when he discovers that his childhood friend died a violent death, caught up in a shady cryptocurrency scheme. What should be a solemn moment of mourning quickly spirals into a tug-of-war. Karim is pulled into a tense family standoff, where the funeral becomes a pretext for settling old scores and unearthing hidden truths. Everyone wants to bury Franck, but no one agrees on how—or where : Franck's devout African mother, Philomène, requests a traditional burial in Cameroon, while his secular white father, Pascal, insists on an interment in the family vault. Each claims a piece of the young man, and the tiny apartment becomes a battlefield where faith, culture, class, and ego collide. Meanwhile, Karim, first shocked, is soon faced with the necessity of helping Nadir, his rough but honest, hardworking cousin, often protective of his friends. He is now broke from giving Franck money to invest in crypto, and asks Karim to secretely spending time searching the apartment for the disappeared crypto-currency. Karim is consequently soon confronted by his girlfriend Alice who feels neglected when she needs his support as she is about to take a pregnancy test. Around the deceased orbit a cast of hilarious and poignant characters: Jeanne, Franck's young sister, stays distant from her father since his separation from Philomène, she sways between anger and grief; Muriel, the tact-challenged and upper class stepmother multiplies the missteps of a tensed and uncomfortable France; Steve, a split-personality local thug who also lost his crypto investment and sees it slip away; Romain, an anxious homeboy appreciated and welcomed by everyone despite his mental challenges; Riad, a mechanic at heart who turned away from stolen vehicles and wants to stay out of trouble now that he runs a community garage; Aïcha, the "neighbourhood mother" who cooks for everyone and manages a community organization, upholding dignity. Karim, initially a bystander, has entered the eye of the storm— and has become the mediator between worlds, between Philomène and Pascal's families, as the emotional compass in the house is spinning out of control. Before cultural rituals clash and long-buried grievances would erupt, and to the invitation of Uncle Pierre who calls for a family sit-down, Karim steps out of his inner turmoil ... what unfolds is more than a debate over burial rights—it's a raw, comedic, and deeply human reckoning with identity, love, and legacy.
  
  "Rest in Peace, If You Can!" is a sharp, human comedy that lays bare a fractured society, probing what we inherit, what we bury, and what we might still rebuild—on the edge of a void.