Céline Sciamma

Cinéast(e)s

Julie Gayet, Mathieu Busson

Mona Achache, Lisa Azuelos

Is there such a thing as strictly feminine cinema? Is it more difficult for a woman than for a man to direct a film? Is gender parity necessary in the industry? Actress and producer Julie GAYET and actor and director Mathieu BUSSON ask these questions to twenty French woman filmmakers, who face a camera together for the first time. After over an hour of lively, informal, spontaneous and funny interviews, it becomes obvious that these issues are still problematic and definitely worthy of a documentary. As Mia HANSEN-LØVE remarks, “In the eyes of the people, a woman’s film is always a woman’s film, while a man’s movie is simply… a movie”.

Portrait de la jeune fille en feu

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Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel

On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.

Petite maman

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Joséphine Sanz, Gabrielle Sanz

Nelly has just lost her grandmother and is helping her parents clean out her mother's childhood home. She explores the house and the surrounding woods. One day she meets a girl her same age building a treehouse.

Tomboy

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Zoé Héran, Malonn Lévana

A French family moves to a new neighborhood with during the summer holidays. The story follows a 10-year-old gender non-conforming child, Laure, who experiments with their gender presentation, adopting the name Mikäel.

Girlhood

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Karidja Touré, Assa Sylla

Oppressed by her family setting, dead-end school prospects and the boys law in the neighborhood, Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of three free-spirited girls. She changes her name, her dress code, and quits school to be accepted in the gang, hoping that this will be a way to freedom.

Mademoiselle

Guillaume Gouix

Céline Sallette, Fanny Touron

“I can’t remember the last time a guy got vulgar with me. When was the last time a guy did that thing… you know, with his lips, like damn girl, you’re hot. Of course I used to hate it. But Lady, c’mon, that’s a whole other ballgame! The little prick called me Lady.”

Water Lilies

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Pauline Acquart, Adèle Haenel

Set during a sultry summer in a French suburb, Marie is desperate to join the local pool's synchronized swimming team, but is her interest solely for the sake of sport or for a chance to get close to Floriane, the bad girl of the team? Sciamma, and the two leads, capture the uncertainty of teenage sexuality with a sympathetic eye in this delicate drama of the angst of coming-of-age.

Pauline

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Anaïs Demoustier, Adèle Haenel

A young woman chronicles her childhood of neglect and isolation.

Les cinéphiles

Maxime Solito

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La Coupe Bernard Tapine

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Céline Sallette, Rebecca Zlotowski

Renowned French filmmaker Celine Sciamma turns her camera inwards in 2018 for a rare documentary output celebrating her love of women's football. Following her own team, Baston & Courtoisie, as well as many others competing for the Bernard Tapine cup, the short is an ode to the group of players in it for the love of the sport, and as a gathering place, who have made Parisian women's football a lesbian haven. Cameos from several within the film industry make the film a unique but personal work for Sciamma