Love According to Dalva
From one year to the next, the** Cinémathèque québécoise** takes the pulse of recent and current French cinema, in partnership with the Institut français, in order to follow the evolution of an increasingly diversified French production.
Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at Critics' Week, 2022 Cannes Film Festival
Although Dalva is 12, she dresses, wears make-up and lives like a woman. One evening, she’s suddenly taken away from her father’s house. Dumbfounded and outraged at first, she later meets Jayden, a social worker, and Samia, a strong-willed teenager. A new life seems to start for Dalva, that of a girl her age.

Emmanuelle Nicot
Emmanuelle Nicot is a French director and screenwriter. She is also a casting director, specializing in street casting. She studied at the Institut des Arts de Diffusion in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. In 2012, after graduating, she presented her first short film, Rae, which won around fifteen awards. She then directed the short film Snatched (À l’arraché, 2016) after immersing herself in a shelter for teenage girls and presented it at more than 60 festivals. She eventually directed her first feature film, Dalva (2022), in Charleville-Mézières, Reims, and Sedan. This film, depicting the journey of a 12-year-old girl recovering from incest, was selected at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize of the Critics' Week and the Rail d'Or award.
