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. 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.

Filmography

• 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
• 2018La Coupe Bernard Tapine — Writer, Director, Director of Photography
• 2018With the Wind — Writer
• 2016Being 17 — Writer
• 2016My Life as a Zucchini — Screenplay
• 2015Young Tiger — Script Consultant
• 2014Bird People — Script Consultant
• 2014Girlhood — Costume Designer, Director, Writer
• 2014Mademoiselle — Fille boîte
• 2011Tomboy — Director, Writer
• 2010Ivory Tower — Writer
• 2009Pauline — Director
• 2007Water Lilies — Caissier de McDonald's (uncredited), Director, Screenplay
• Brume — Screenplay

Appearances as themselves (5)

• 2026No Mercy — Self
• 2022Marilyn, a woman of today — self
• 2017Les cinéphiles — Self
• Esprit critique — Self
• 2013Cinéast(e)s — Self