Young French Cinema 2024: Ama Gloria (2024)
Director: Marie Amachoukeli Run Time: 84 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2023
Starring: Ilça Moreno Zego, Louise Mauroy-Panzani
Country: France
Language: French, Creole
Young French Cinema 2024
Discover a new generation of directors, presented at the Film Center from Sept 6 – 12, 2024.
About the film:
Official Selection, 2023 Cannes Film Festival
Best International Film Prize, 2023 Jerusalem Film Festival
Six-year-old Cléo loves her nanny Gloria more than anything. When Gloria must suddenly return to Cape Verde to care for her own children, Cléo makes her promise that they will see each other very soon. Gloria invites Cléo to her island and the two must make the most of their last summer together. From the producers of Petite Maman and Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Àma Gloria exquisitely captures themes of family and human connection.
“Deeply moving. A debut made dazzling by an astonishingly intricate performance from its six-year-old star.”
— Jessica Kiang, Variety
About the filmmaker:
Marie Amachoukeli is a French film director and screenwriter of Georgian descent. She was trained at La Fémis, the French film school that trains students in all aspects of the industry of cinema. She made her feature film debut with Party Girl (2014) in collaboration with Samuel Theis and Claire Burger, which won the Caméra d’Or at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. Her film I Want Pluto to Be a Planet Again (2016), an animated short made with Vladimir Mavounia-Kouka, competed at the 2018 César Awards. In 2020, she wrote the script for Franco Lolli’s Litigante, which opened the 2019 edition of La Semaine de la Critique in Cannes. She works as a consultant for several production companies and writing workshops, including those in partnership with the Semaine de la Critique in Cannes.
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