Nana

Intimate and sensitive – and completely devoid of sentimentality – Valérie Massadian’s debut feature Nana is about the basic questions of life and death as experienced directly in the middle of the process of awakening. Four-and-a-half year old Nana lives in the French countryside, apart from all other children, on a daily basis only interacting with her mother, her reserved grandfather and the natural world itself, its beauty and its violence. Massadian’s extremely confident camera is often placed low, on the eye level of the child, a device that might stem from the filmmaker’s attempting to gain confidence from her lead, but one that also places the audience as if we, too, were children, sense-remembering the experience of discovery. Mark Peranson
France
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2011


Script
Valérie Massadian

Cinematography
Léo Hisntin
Valérie Massadian

Editing
Dominique Auvray
Valérie Massadian

Production
Gaijin

Cast
Alain Sabras
Kelyna Lecomte
Marie Delmas

Awards
Best First Feature Film Locarno
Best International Film Valdivia

Festivals
17th Festival on Wheels
WORLD CINEMA