I Am Jonas

I Am Jonas (Jonas, 2018) is a French drama you can watch online on iFILM. Christophe Charrier's feature debut runs two timelines of the same man side by side: a guarded teenager in 1995 and, eighteen years on, an impulsive thirty-something who never found his footing.

At fourteen, one summer, Jonas falls in with the new kid Nathan — charming, reckless, trailing some shadow you can't quite name. The friendship becomes his first love and his first wound; something breaks that night and never sets right. As an adult, played by Félix Maritaud, Jonas drinks, lashes out at the people close to him, and keeps digging into the past to learn what really became of Nathan.

This is a quiet film about memory, guilt and growing up gay in nineties provincial France — closer to an investigation of one's own trauma than to nostalgia. Maritaud holds both eras on a raw edge, and the cutting stitches them so the reveal genuinely lands. For viewers who like intimate European drama with no sugar on top. Stream I Am Jonas (2018) online on iFILM.