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.
Preserved in our collections
Laure is 10 years old. Laure is a tomboy. On her arrival in a new neighborhood, she lets Lisa and her crowd believe that she is a boy. Truth or dare? Dare. Summer becomes a big playground and Laure pretends to be Michael, a boy like the others... different enough to get the attention of Lisa who falls in love with him. Laure takes advantage of her new identity as if the end of the summer would never reveal her unsettling secret.
Céline Sciamma
Born in France in 1978, Céline Sciamma studied literature before attending the prestigious La Fémis film school, where she specialized in screenwriting. She achieved international success with her first three films, Water Lilies (2007), Tomboy (2011) and Girlhood (2014), which established her as one of the most prominent feminist and queer filmmakers. Her fourth film, Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), won the Best Screenplay Award at the Cannes Film Festival and sparked significant discussion around the female gaze and the representation of lesbian desire on screen. As a screenwriter, she contributed to Claude Barras’ My Life as a Courgette (2016), André Téchine’s Being 17 (2016), and Jacques Audiard’s Paris, 13th District (2021). Petite Maman, her latest film, was release in 2021.
.jpg){kind=link}