Overflowing with tenderness that can break your heart, yet soaked in the truth of experiences that feel lived, visceral, and real, Àma Gloria attempts to explore the material from which the bonds of love are made and finds it complex, intricate, harsh, and ever so fragile. Six-year-old Cleo holds a deep affection for her nanny, Gloria, beyond anything else. When Gloria returns to her homeland, Cleo pays her a visit for one last transformative summer they will share together. It's not certain you can talk about a ‘coming-of-age‘ movie when the heroine is only six years old, but here you experience an almost literal emotional odyssey, full of depth and power, without a single saccharine moment, only dense, compelling truth. Which is made all the greater by the stirring performance of the young lead, Louise Mauroy-Panzani.
Àma Gloria
Àma Gloria
64th TIFF: Greek Premiere
Screening Schedule
No physical screenings scheduled. |
- Direction: Marie Amachoukeli
- Script: Marie Amachoukeli
- Cinematography: Inès Tabarin
- Editing: Suzana Pedro
- Sound: Yolande Decarsin, Fanny Martin, Daniel Sobrino
- Music: Fanny Martin
- Actors: Louise Mauroy-Panzani, Ilça Moreno Zego, Arnaud Rebotini, Fredy Gomes Tavares, Abnara Gomes Varela, Domingos Borges Almeida
- Production: Lilies Films
- Producers: Bénédicte Couvreur
- Costumes: Agathe Meinnemare
- Production Design: Zoé Carré
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color
- Production Country: France
- Production Year: 2023
- Duration: 84'
- Distribution in Greece: Ama Films
- Contact: Pyramide International
- Awards/Distinctions: The Nechama Rivilin Award for Best International Film – Jerusalem Film Festival (2023)
Marie Amachoukeli
A French director and writer of Georgian descent, born in Paris in 1979. She made her writing debut in 2005 with the short film Tantalus. Among her most famous films, C’est gratuit pour les filles (2009), Raw (2016), and Savage (2018). She won the Golden Camera award at the Cannes Festival in 2014 for her film Party Girl, whereas her latest feature Ama Gloria opened the 2023 Semaine de la Critique.
Filmography
2009 It’s Free for Girls (co-direction, short)
2013 Demolition Party (co-direction, short)
2014 Party Girl (co-direction)
2022 Àma Gloria
2013 Demolition Party (co-direction, short)
2014 Party Girl (co-direction)
2022 Àma Gloria