Innocence
Giants, fairies, magicians, ghosts, dragons, and monsters of all kinds… Here’s what your Cinémathèque has in store this summer! Since Méliès, filmmakers have embraced the fanstastic potential of cinema, creating infinite phantasmagorias and extraordinary spectacles where the unreal becomes real. Step into a world of fantasy and boundless imagination: whatever your generation, the monsters and wonders that once filled your childhood dreams are back this summer 2025!
Winner of the Bronze Horse, 2004 Stockholm International Film Festival
In an isolated boarding school, girls aged six to twelve receive a mysterious education from their teachers, Mademoiselle Eva and Mademoiselle Edith, which combines dancing in the forest and learning about the natural sciences. In her first feature film, Lucile Hadžihalilović has already established her unusual style, characterized by an atmosphere that is at once unsettling and dreamlike, where malaise and uncanniness lurk behind a luminous tranquility.
Lucile Hadžihalilović
Lucile Hadžihalilović is a French film director and screenwriter of Bosnian descent. She wrote and directed the short film La bouche de Jean-Pierre (1996), and the feature films Innocence (2004), for which she became the first woman to win the Stockholm International Film Festival's Bronze Horse Award for Best Film, Evolution (2015) and Earwig (2021). Her latest film, The Ice Tower, won the Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2025.
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