Petite maman

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, built the tree house 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 tree house. Her name is Marion.

“Spellbinding... A moving jewel of a film about memory, friendship and kin... Céline Sciamma’s beautiful fairytale reverie is occasioned by the dual mysteries of memory and the future: simple, elegant and very moving. An artistic masterstroke on Sciamma’s part. What a superb movie” - Peter Bradshaw, the Guardian

Filmography: Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), Girlhood (2014), Tomboy (2011), Water Lilies (2007).