In her feature film Portrait of a Young Girl on Fire, Céline Sciamma tells the story of the relationship between a painter and her model on a Breton island in the late 18th century.

Here, the conventions are turned on their head: it is the women who look at one another, who observe and gently reveal themselves to each other. Céline Sciamma explores female desire from the inside out in an intimate film that offers a deeper understanding of the concept of the female gaze.

The story of a little girl who dreams of becoming a beauty queen, surrounded by a dysfunctional family: when she receives her invitation to a pageant, her entire family accompanies her.

The film questions the societal expectations surrounding beauty and femininity, constructed and internalized from a very young age, but also, and above all, explores the family as a space for empowerment and trust. It is by embracing her uniqueness that everything comes together.

An adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s novel by Greta Gerwig, in which we follow the journeys of four sisters as they grow up and choose their paths in 19th-century America.

Here, the film celebrates sisterhood and the diversity of women’s life paths, reminding us that there are many ways to live one’s life, embrace one’s body, and express one’s femininity. As we follow these women’s lives over several years, we see them build their identities, step by step.

In this 1962 film, we follow a young singer during the two-hour wait before receiving a medical diagnosis. Filmed in real time, we observe her wanderings through Paris and watch her self-perception transform as the minutes tick by. 

Agnès Varda depicts the journey of a woman who ceases to be an observed image and once again becomes the subject of her own story. 

In this 1959 Franco-Japanese film, with a screenplay by Marguerite Duras, we follow the encounter between a French actress and a Japanese architect.

Here, the body serves as a repository of memory, bearing within it the invisible traces and wounds left by each person’s personal history. Intimacy and desire intertwine in a narrative that explores the fragility of bonds and identities.