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Chiara Civello

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

2023 This Is How a Child Becomes a Poet (short)
2021 Petite maman
2019 Portrait de la jeune fille en feu
2014 Bande de filles
2011 Tomboy
2007 Naissance des pieuvres

Céline Sciamma (Cergy-Pontoise, Francia, 1980), after receiving a degree in French, studied screenwriting at l’École Nationale Supérieure des Métiers de l’Image et du Son (FEMIS) in Paris. From 2004 to 2006, she co-wrote two short films by Jean-Baptiste de Laubier: Les premières communions and Cache ta joie. At the same time, she also wrote Naissance des pieuvres, which won the 9th Prix Junior for Best Screenplay and would turn into her feature directorial debut, Water Lilies, in 2007, selected for the Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard), as well as Toronto, London and Rotterdam. Sciamma’s 2011 film Tomboy won numerous accolades, including the Teddy Jury Award at the Berlinale. In 2014, her film Bande de filles (Girlhood) premiered at Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight. Two years later, she scripted Quand on a 17 ans (Being 17) by André Téchiné and Ma vie de Courgette (My Life as a Courgette), an animated film by Claude Barras that attracted considerable audience and critical acclaim, won numerous awards and received an Oscar® nomination. Sciamma returned to directing in 2019 with Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (Portrait of a Lady on Fire), another title in a string of successes, earning her an array of prizes, among them Best Screenplay at Cannes. Two years after that feat, Sciamma co-wrote Les Olympiades, Paris 13e (Paris, 13th District) with Léa Mysius and Jacques Audiard, the latter of whom also directed the film. That same year, in 2021, she directed Petite maman, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2018, with many of her fellow filmmakers, Sciamma co-founded Collectif 50/50, a French association promoting equality between men and women and inclusion of sexual and gender diversity in the film and audiovisual industry.