Céline Sciamma
Directing
- Born
- November 12, 1978 (age 47) · Pontoise, Val-d'Oise, France
Céline Sciamma is a French screenwriter and film director. Sciamma's work is strikingly minimalist. She is known for her transformational work with themes of gender fluidity, sexual identity among girls and women, and the female gaze.
Sciamma's considers her first three feature films, Water Lilies (2007), Tomboy (2011) and Girlhood (2014) to constitute a coming-of-age trilogy. Her 2019 film, Portait of a Lady on Fire, won her the Queer Palm and Best Screenplay at 2019 Cannes Film Festival. The film was widely acclaimed and was also named the 30th greatest film of all time in the Sight & Sound 2022 critics' poll. She has written screenplays for André Téchiné and Claude Barras, the latter of which won her the Best Adapted Screenplay at the 42nd César Awards.
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Sciamma is also an activist and a founding member of the 50/50 collective, an advocacy association that promotes gender parity, diversity, and inclusion in the film and audiovisual industry.
Known for
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
September 6, 2019
My Life as a Zucchini
September 22, 2016
Tomboy
April 20, 2011
Petite Maman
June 2, 2021
Water Lilies
May 17, 2007
Paris, 13th District
November 3, 2021
Girlhood
October 22, 2014
Being 17
February 27, 2016
The Balconettes
November 15, 2024
Bird People
June 4, 2014
With the Wind
September 26, 2018
Pauline
October 1, 2009
Behind the camera18
- 2026Tutti Frutti Director, Cinematography, Original Music Composer, Songs
- 2024The Balconettes Writer
- 2023This Is How a Child Becomes a Poet Director, Writer
- 2021Paris, 13th District Writer
- 2021Petite Maman Costume Designer, Director, Writer
- 2019Portrait of a Lady on Fire Director, Screenplay
- 2018With the Wind Writer
- 2018La Coupe Bernard Tapine Writer, Director, Director of Photography
- 2016My Life as a Zucchini Screenplay
- 2016