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Céline Sciamma
Director

Céline Sciamma

Country France · Pontoise
Born 1978-11-12
Birthplace Pontoise, Val-d'Oise, France

A filmmaker of whispered intimacy and female desire — her camera lingers on glances, touches, the spaces between words where longing lives. She makes cinema about how women look at each other, about love as recognition, about the past as a country we can revisit but never quite reclaim.

Films like 'Fanny and Alexander' or 'The Spirit of the Beehive' showed me that you can be very specific and also very universal when depicting the inner world of children.

On Variationen (Variations  ·  Sight & Sound Interview