Uptown Art Hop: Featuring PETITE MAMAN for Mother’s Day

Watch Trailer Director: Céline Sciamma
Language: French

Join us for a special screening as part of the May Uptown Art Hop. In honor of Mother’s Day, we are featuring PETITE MAMAN, from the acclaimed, contemporary French filmmaker Céline Sciamma. The film explores girlhood and mother daughter relationships with an enchanting twist.

About the film

Céline Sciamma continues to prove herself as one of the most accomplished and unpredictable contemporary French filmmakers with her follow up to PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE, the uniquely emotional, PETITE MAMAN. Following the death of her beloved grandmother, 8-year-old Nelly accompanies her parents to her mother’s childhood home to begin the difficult process of cleaning out its contents. As Nelly explores the house and nearby woods, she is immediately drawn to a neighbor her own age building a treehouse. What follows is a tender tale of childhood grief, memory and connection.

Uptown Art Hop

Taking place the second Sunday of every month, the purpose of the Art Hop is to provide greater visibility for artists and art projects in the Uptown area through simultaneous art offerings.

Starting May 8th, several artist studios located in the 8 North Court building and the Athena Cinema will be hosting events during the Hop. Both of these locations add a wonderful connectivity to sites of the Art Hop project and we are excited to include two historic buildings to the event. The complete list of participating venues now include The Union, The Athena, Donkey Coffee, 8 Court Studios and Casa Nueva.

The 8 Court artist studios host a wide variety of artists– fabric arts, ceramics, broom-making, acrylics and more. Visitors can begin visiting the 8 Court Studios as early as 2PM. The Athena will screen BAFTA Best Film nominee PETITE MAMAN at 5:30PM.

From director Céline Sciamma:

I really always try to think and to visualize what kind of impact I want a film to have because, the film art is opportunity to for a moment have a glimpse of another reality. But I’m also really obsessive about how it stays with you. And, for instance, with “Petite Maman,” I had, like, one image. What I wanted the film to have as an impact was, like, a mother and a daughter are in a cinema. The film ends. Credit rolls. They get out of the room. They have to go home. There’s the bus. They have to run to catch the bus. And they will run differently together.