Petite Maman

Eight-year-old Nelly has just lost her beloved grandmother and is helping her parents clean out her mother’s childhood home. She explores the house and the surrounding woods where her mum, Marion, used to play and where she built the treehouse Nelly has heard so much about. One day her mother suddenly leaves. That is when Nelly meets a girl of her own age in the woods, building a treehouse.

Keywords

  • Berlinale
  • Cine-Short: 90 Minutes of cinema
  • Céline Sciamma
  • Female Filmmakers
  • From 10 Years Old
  • TIFF - Toronto International Film Festival
  • Childhood
  • family
  • friendship
  • mourning

Actors

  • Joséphine Sanz
  • Gabrielle Sanz
  • Nina Meurisse
  • Stéphane Varupenne
  • Margot Abascal

Director

  • Céline Sciamma

Drama

1h 12min

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France
2021
Eight-year-old Nelly has just lost her beloved grandmother and is helping her parents clean out her mother’s childhood home. She explores the house and the surrounding woods where her mum, Marion, used to play and where she built the treehouse Nelly has heard so much about. One day her mother suddenly leaves. That is when Nelly meets a girl of her own age in the woods, building a treehouse.

Eight-year-old Nelly has just lost her beloved grandmother and is helping her parents clean out her mother’s childhood home. She explores the house and the surrounding woods where her mum, Marion, used to play and where she built the treehouse Nelly has heard so much about. One day her mother suddenly leaves. That is when Nelly meets a girl of her own age in the woods, building a treehouse.


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