June Screenings

PETITE MAMAN

• Director: Céline Sciamma
• FRANCE / 2021 / DCP / Colour / 72’ / French; Turkish s.t.

• Screenplay: Céline Sciamma
• Director of Photography: Claire Mathon
• Editing: Julien Lacheray
• Music: Jean-Baptiste de Laubier
• Cast: Joséphine Sanz, Gabrielle Sanz, Nina Meurisse, Stéphane Varupenne, Margot Abascal
• Producer: Bénédicte Couvreur
• Production Co.: Lilies Films
• World Sales: MK2
• Turkish Rights: MUBI

This film is screened within the Galas section.

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Expanding her fan base with the success of The Portrait of A Lady on Fire, Céline Sciamma returns to the sweet though challenging years of childhood as in Tomboy and My Life as a Courgette. Premiering within the main competition at the 2021 Berlin Film Festival, Petite Maman opens with the death of eight-year-old Nelly’s grandmother. As Nelly plays along the places where her mother Marion used to play when she was a child, Marion suddenly disappears, and Nelly meets a girl her own age, called Marion. Delving into the mysteries of life from a female perspective, Sciamma this time draws inspiration from the films of Hayao Miyazaki and Chantal Akerman to turn her camera towards the intersection of remembrance and imagination to tell a unique coming-of-age story. Young Marion and Nelly are played by twin sisters Gabrielle and Joséphine Sanz.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.