Céline Sciamma
☼ Born on 12 December 1978, in Pontoise, Val-d'Oise, France
BiographyCéline Sciamma was born on November 12, 1978 in Pontoise, Val-d'Oise, France. She is a writer and director, known for Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), Petite Maman (2021) and Tomboy (2011).


In the role of director

Petite Maman (14/05/2022)

An eight-year-old girl makes a new friend in the woods surrounding her mother’s childhood home in Petite Maman. After the death of her grandmother, eight-year-old Nelly (Joséphine Sanz) travels with her mother (Nina Meurisse) and father (Stéphane Varupenne) to clean out the former’s childhood home. While venturing into the woods surrounding the house, Nelly meets […]

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (20/02/2020)

A young artist develops a romantic connection with the woman she was hired to paint a portrait of in Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Marianne (Noémie Merlant) is a young painter, who travels to an island in eighteenth-century Brittany, where she is hired by La Comtesse (Valeria Golino) to paint a portrait of her […]