Albert appears opposite lead actress Grace Van Dien in the feature film Silver Star, which will have its world premiere at the 50th edition of Deauville Festival du Cinéma Américain in France. Amongst the over 100 films presented at three screen­ing sites are Sean Baker’s 2024 Cannes Palme d’Or winner Anora, Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Chris Sanders’ animated The Wild Robot, and Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis.

Directed by Lola Bessis and Ruben Amar, Silver Star stars Grace Van Dien (Stranger Things) as a pregnant teenager taken hostage by Billie (Troy Leigh-Anne Johnson), a young African American tomboy whose attempt at a bank robbery goes wrong. Togeth­er, they run away, embark­ing on a twist­ed jour­ney, clash­ing and strug­gling for com­mon ground, until Fran­ny offers Bil­lie an unex­pect­ed deal…

The film will screen on Wednesday, September 11, 2024, 4:30pm, at Cen­ter Inter­na­tion­al de Deauville, where Lola Bessis, Ruben Amar, and Grace Van Dien will be in attendance. The film will screen a second time on Thursday, September 12, 2024, 8:30pm, at Ciné­ma le Morny 2.

Deauville Festival du Cinéma Américain high­lights the diver­si­ty of Amer­i­can cin­e­ma, from major Hol­ly­wood pro­duc­tions to inde­pen­dent films. Over the past 50 years, the fes­ti­val has discovered films which have marked cin­e­ma his­to­ry: Dar­ren Aronof­sky’s Pi, Spike Jonze’s Being John Malkovitch, Christo­pher Nolan’s Memen­to, Todd Solondz’s Wel­come to the Doll­house, Paul Hag­gis’s Crash, John Cameron Mitchell’s Hed­wig and the Angry Inch, Valerie Faris and Jonathan Day­ton’s Lit­tle Miss Sun­shine, Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash, Matt Ross’s Cap­tain Fan­tas­tic, and Ben Zeitlin’s Beasts of the South­ern Wild.