CÉLINE SCIAMMA PRESENTS AT GENDER BENDER:

Céline Sciamma, French director and screenwriter and one of the most influential voices in contemporary arthouse cinema, will be a guest at the Gender Bender Festival in Bologna, presenting This Is How a Child Becomes a Poet, a delicate and profound exploration of the home of the great Italian poet Patrizia Cavalli, and the feature film TUTTI FRUTTI, produced as part of the renowned Où en êtes-vous? series of artist portraits commissioned by the Centre Pompidou.

THIS IS HOW A CHILD BECOMES A POET (France, Italy, 2023, 16′)
With an intimate and deeply felt gesture, Céline Sciamma enters the Roman apartment where the great Italian poet Patrizia Cavalli lived, shortly after her death. The short film is a delicate and sensory exploration of the spaces she left behind, where objects, light, dust and memories evoke what remains of the poet’s artistic and human legacy. An independent production accompanied by music from Chiara Civello, the film lingers on each object as a witness to a life that has passed, yet remains present – preserved in the memory of the wooden floorboards, or in a book worn by time.

TUTTI FRUTTI (France, 2026, 40′)
Produced as part of the renowned Où en êtes-vous? series of artist portraits commissioned by the Centre Pompidou, TUTTI FRUTTI is a free-flowing, personal cinematic essay by Céline Sciamma. The film brings together private archive footage, documentary images and visual notes filmed by the director entirely on her own. Through fluid, rhythmic editing, Sciamma reflects on the practice of making films alone, the urgency of capturing reality and the search for hope through images. A creative logbook becomes a work of rediscovery, memory and the reinvention of fiction.

With the support of Fondazione Nuovi Mecenati