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Céline Sciamma

Céline Sciamma

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Biography

Céline Sciamma is a French screenwriter and film director. Sciamma's work is strikingly minimalist, partly the legacy of her mentor, Xavier Beauvois, who advised her while she was a student at the major French film school, La Fémis.

Known For

Portrait of a Lady on Fire
8.1

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.

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

2019
Esprit critique
N/A

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Esprit critique

2016
Water Lilies
6.5

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.

Water Lilies

2007
Tomboy
7.3

Ten-year-old Laure isn't like most girls. She prefers football to dolls and sweaters to dresses. When Laure and her family move to a new neighbourhood, local girl Lisa mistakes Laure for a boy. Indulging in this exciting new identity, Laure becomes Mickaël, and so begins a summer of long sunny afternoons, playground games and first kisses. Yet with the school term fast approaching, and with suspicions arising amongst friends and family, Laure must face up to an uncertain future.

Tomboy

2011
Paris, 13th District
6.9

Émilie meets Camille who is attracted to Nora, who crosses paths with Amber. Three girls and a boy – They're friends, sometimes lovers and often both.

Paris, 13th District

2021
The Balconettes
6.3

As a heat wave brings a Marseille neighborhood to a boil, three roommates gleefully meddle in the lives of their neighbors from their balcony. Until a late night drink turns into a bloody affair.

The Balconettes

2024
My Life as a Zucchini
7.8

After his mother’s death, Zucchini is befriended by a kind police officer, Raymond, who accompanies him to his new foster home filled with other orphans his age. There, with the help of his newfound friends, Zucchini eventually learns to trust and love as he searches for a new family of his own.

My Life as a Zucchini

2016
Petite Maman
7.1

After the death of her beloved grandmother, eight-year-old Nelly meets a strangely familiar girl her own age in the woods. Instantly forming a connection with this mysterious new friend, Nelly embarks on a fantastical journey of discovery which helps her come to terms with this newfound loss.

Petite Maman

2021
Being 17
6.8

Damien lives with his mother Marianne, a doctor, while his father, a pilot, is on a tour of duty abroad with the French military. At school, Damien is bullied by Thomas, who lives in the farming community up in the mountains. The boys find themselves living together when Marianne invites Thomas to come and stay with them while his mother is ill in hospital. Damien must learn to live with the boy who terrorized him.

Being 17

2016
Girlhood
6.5

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.

Girlhood

2014
Bird People
5.9

An overstressed American businessman and a French chambermaid make a connection at an airport hotel in Paris.

Bird People

2014
With the Wind
5.8

An isolated farm in a remote part of the Jura region: this is where Pauline and Alex are living in complete self-sufficient harmony with nature. Their life project is sealed by their love, their ideals and their work. The couple is now ready to take the step towards total independence, and start producing their own electricity. The arrival of Samuel, who comes to install a wind turbine, deeply troubles Pauline, upsetting their relationship and their values.

With the Wind

2018
No Mercy
N/A

From the starting point of her admiration for the pioneering Ukrainian filmmaker Kira Muratova (1934-2018), the director poses a question: is cinema made by women really tougher, more violent? Seeking answers, she talks to great contemporary filmmakers like Catherine Breillat, Virginie Despentes, Alice Diop, Céline Sciamma, Ana Lily Amirpour, and Monika Treut, among others. It becomes obvious that the cinema screen is a space for the projection of real social problems and power relations.

No Mercy

2026
No image
N/A

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”.

Cinéast(e)s

2013
Pauline
6.0

A young woman chronicles her childhood of neglect and isolation.

Pauline

2009
Ivory Tower
6.4

The film revolves around a sibling rivalry between two brothers, Hershell and Thadeus Graves (played by Gonzales and Tiga, respectively), as they compete during a game of chess. Peaches plays Marsha Thirteen, a former performance artist and the shared love interest of both brothers.

Ivory Tower

2010
Marilyn, a woman of today
7.0

Marilyn, a woman for today: Sixty years after her death, Marilyn Monroe remains very much a woman of today. Behind the legendary Hollywood sex symbol, lies a modern woman, mistress of her destiny, building her own image, never hesitating to denounce certain producers, an act ahead of its time. A powerful, free and emancipated woman.

Marilyn, a woman of today

2022
Brume
N/A

Brume, a feisty 7-year-old girl, dreams of becoming a powerful witch. When a thick fog envelops her village, she sets out, accompanied by her best friend Hugo and her pet pig Hubert, on an adventure into the heart of the forbidden forest.Through this coming-of-age journey, Brume uncovers a mysterious bond with Naïa, a legendary witch, and realizes she must face Ankou, a haunting figure tied to death itself.

Brume

This Is How a Child Becomes a Poet
N/A

The last day of Patrizia Cavalli’s home. Before it’s all gone.

This Is How a Child Becomes a Poet

2023
Young Tiger
6.4

Bébé Tigre is Many, a 17-year-old Indian boy who has been living in France for two years. A teenager like any other, he divides his time between school, friends, and his girlfriend. But the pressures placed on him by his parents in India force him to put his own life at risk...

Young Tiger

2015