K.O.

K.O. (2025) follows a retired fighter haunted by a deadly blow that cost an opponent his life. Years later he is pulled back into the ring of the city’s streets when the opponent’s son vanishes, and the man—driven by guilt and a need to make amends—must track the boy through Marseille’s shadowy neighborhoods. As he digs deeper, he clashes with a brutally violent crime gang that controls the docks and answers to no one, forcing him to use the skills he vowed to leave behind while confronting the consequences of his past.

The film is a tense, character-driven thriller about redemption and the cost of violence, balancing adrenaline-fueled confrontations with quieter moments of regret and reckoning. Against the sunbaked, graffiti-streaked backdrop of Marseille, alliances shift and loyalties are tested as he pieces together why the boy was taken and what the gang is hiding. In the end, K.O. is less about winning a fight than about trying to save a life and finally facing the man he once was.