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
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2011
Script
Valérie Massadian
Valérie Massadian
Cinematography
Léo Hisntin
Valérie Massadian
Léo Hisntin
Valérie Massadian
Editing
Dominique Auvray
Valérie Massadian
Dominique Auvray
Valérie Massadian
Production
Gaijin
Gaijin
Cast
Alain Sabras
Kelyna Lecomte
Marie Delmas
Alain Sabras
Kelyna Lecomte
Marie Delmas
Awards
Best First Feature Film Locarno
Best International Film Valdivia
Best First Feature Film Locarno
Best International Film Valdivia
Festivals
17th Festival on Wheels
WORLD CINEMA
17th Festival on Wheels
WORLD CINEMA