Fifteen-year-old Jeanne runs away from the orphanage and finds refuge in a film studio, where an adaptation of Andersen’s The Snow Queen is being shot. Cristina (Marion Cotillard), the mysterious and inscrutable Snow Queen, captivates the girl, and a mutual attraction and dangerous trust develop between them. In Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s film, reality and fiction blur, resulting in a work that is at once ethereal and hauntingly hypnotic.

Berlin International Film Festival 2025 - Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution

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Lucile Hadžihalilović was born in Morocco and later studied art history and film in Paris. In the early 1990s, she co-founded the production company Les Cinémas de la Zone with Gaspar Noé, collaborating with him on Carne, Seul contre tous, and Enter the Void. In 1996, she made her first major work, La Bouche de Jean-Pierre (Mimi), which screened in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes. Her feature debut, Innocence (2004), won the Best New Director award at the San Sebastián Film Festival. In 2015, she released Evolution, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and won two awards at San Sebastián. Her fourth feature, The Ice Tower, co-written with Geoff Cox, premiered in the competition at the 2025 Berlin International Film Festival.

La Bouche De Jean-Pierre / Mimi (1997)
Innocence (2004)
Evolution (2015)
Earwig (2022)

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Director: Lucile Hadžihalilović
Cast: Marion Cotillard, Clara Pacini, August Diehl, Gaspar Noé
Cinematography: Jonathan Ricquebourg
Screenwriter: Geoff Cox, Lucile Hadžihalilović
Producer: Muriel Merlin
Editor: Nassim Gordji-Tehrani
Music: Ken Yasumoto
Hungarian Distributor: -
Colour: colour
min: 118 mins

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