Jeanne, a 16-year-old orphan, runs away from her foster home and ends up sleeping at a studio where a film adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic fairytale The Snow Queen is being shot, starring Cristina (Cotillard) in the lead role. Her beauty instantly bedazzles the young impressionable girl and while her obsession for the Queen grows, reality and imagination start merging into a magical realm.
Winning a Silver Bear at the 2025 Berlinale, Lucile Hadžihalilović’s surreal fable is a vibrant and compelling story of lost innocence, “utterly beautiful in every frame with a breakout lead performance by young French actress Clara Pacini” (Screen Daily).
Filmography: Earwig (2022), Evolution (2015), Innocence (2004), Mimi (1996).