International Panorama · 43rd Edition
PETITE MAMAN
Director
Céline SCIAMMA
Country
France
Runtime
1 h 12 min
Language
French
Premiere
Egyptian Premiere
Synopsis
8-year-old Nelly has just lost her beloved grandmother and is helping her parents clean out her mother’s childhood home. She explores the house and the surrounding woods where her mom, Marion, used to play and built the treehouse she’s heard so much about. One day her mother abruptly leaves. That’s when Nelly meets a girl her own age in the woods building a treehouse. Her name is Marion.
Cast
Joséphine SANZ, Gabrielle SANZ, Nina MEURISSE, Margot ABASCAL, Stéphane VARUPENNE
Screenplay
Céline Sciamma
Producers
Bénédicte Couvreur
About the Director
Born in 1978, she studied French literature at Paris Nanterre University and then screenwriting at the film school La Fémis. Her debut feature film, "Water Lilies", premiered at Cannes in 2007; her second, "Tomboy", opened the 2011 Panorama and won the Teddy Award. "Portrait of a Lady on Fire", her fourth feature film for which she also wrote the screenplay, premiered in competition at Cannes and again won numerous prizes, including the European Film Award for Best European Screenwriter.
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