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Celine Sciamma is a French film director, screenwriter and costume designer known for her strikingly minimalist body of work, which commonly features very little dialogue and stylized mise-en-scene.
Sciamma frequently casts non-professional actors in her films. She also designs the costumes for all of her films, though she is uncredited, because she believes that fashion and style are crucial in characterization.
In 2019, Sciamma's film Portrait of a Lady on Fire won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay.
Three of Sciamma's most famous works, Girlhood, Tomboy and Water Lilies, focus on coming-of-age and form, in her mind, a trilogy of sorts. A common theme in these works is the fluidity of gender and sexual identity of girls during the formative period of adolescence.
Sciamma is a graduate of the acclaimed French film school La Fémis.
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