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Céline Sciamma

Film Director / Screenwriter / Actor | * 11/12/1978 (45) | Pontoise, Val-d'Oise (France)
Céline Sciamma (French: [selin sjama]; born 12 November 1978) is a French screenwriter and film director. She wrote and directed Water Lilies (2007), Tomboy (2011), Girlhood (2014), Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), and Petite Maman (2021). Sciamma has won many nominations and awards for her films. A common theme in Sciamma's films is the fluidity of gender, sexual identity among girls and women, and female gaze. ()
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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.

Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Romance / Love | Documentaries

Known for these Movies & Shows

A French family moves to a new neighborhood with during the summer holidays. The story follows a 10-year-old gender non-conforming child, Laure, who experiments with their gender presentation, adoptin ...

Tomboy

NR

2011 | 3.7/5 | 1h 22min
Drama
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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

R

2019 | 4.1/5 | 2h
Drama, Romance / Love
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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 ...

Water Lilies

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2007 | 3.2/5 | 1h 25min
Drama, Romance / Love
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Nelly has just lost her grandmother and is helping her parents clean out her mother's childhood home. She explores the house and the surrounding woods. One day she meets a girl her same age building a ...

Petite Maman

PG

2021 | 3.6/5 | 1h 12min
Drama, Fantasy, Kids & Family
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Awards & Nominations for Céline Sciamma

European Film Award for Best Animated Feature Film European Film Award for Best Screenwriter European University Film Award Chevalier Des Arts Et Des Lettres Officer of Arts and Letters César Award for Best First Feature Film European Film Award for Best Animated Feature Film European Film Academy Young Audience Award European Film Award for Best Director European Film Award for Best Screenwriter European University Film Award
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Movies with Céline Sciamma as Actress(3)

as Fille boîte2014 Mademoiselle
as herself2013 Cinéast(e)s
as McDonalds Attendant2007 Water Lilies

Movies with Céline Sciamma as Crew(21)

Directing/Director2023 This Is How A Child Becomes A Poet
Writing/Writer2021 Paris, 13th District
Costume & Make-Up/Costume Designer2021 Petite Maman
Directing/Director2021 Petite Maman
Writing/Writer2021 Petite Maman
Directing/Director2019 Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Writing/Screenplay2019 Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Writing/Writer2018 With the Wind
Writing/Screenplay2016 My Life as a Zucchini
Writing/Writer2016 Being 17
Writing/Script Consultant2015 Young Tiger
Writing/Script Consultant2014 Bird People
Costume & Make-Up/Costume Designer2014 Girlhood
Directing/Director2014 Girlhood
Writing/Writer2014 Girlhood
Directing/Director2011 Tomboy
Writing/Writer2011 Tomboy
Writing/Writer2010 Ivory Tower
Directing/Director2010 Pauline
Directing/Director2007 Water Lilies
Writing/Screenplay2007 Water Lilies

Full Name: Céline Sciamma
Citizenship: France
Born: Sunday, 11/12 1978 (November) in Pontoise, Val-d'Oise (France) (current age: 45 years + 165 days)
Zodiac sign: Scorpio (Chinese zodiac sign: Horse)
Languages: French (FR)
Educated at: La Fémis
Member of: Collectif 50/50
Siblings: Laurent Sciamma
Other names for Céline Sciamma (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"셀린 시아마"
Céline Sciamma frequently works together with these people:
Christel Baras (9x, Crew)
Bénédicte Couvreur (6x, Crew)
Julien Lacheray (6x, Crew)
Marie Luiset (5x, Crew)
Jean-Baptiste de Laubier (5x, Crew)
Pierre André (5x, Crew)
Daniel Sobrino (4x, Crew)
Claire Langmann (3x, Crew)
Jacques Audiard (3x, Crew)
Rémi Burah (3x, Crew)
Crystel Fournier (3x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:494400, Added: 10/04/2018, Last updated: 03/31/2024