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Nana

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Directed by Valérie Massadian
France, 2011
Drama
  • French
  • English

Synopsis

Nana is four years old and lives in a stone house beyond the forest. Back from school one late afternoon, all she finds in her house is silence. A journey into the night of her childhood. The world at her height.

Our take

French filmmaker Valérie Massadian won the Best First Feature prize in Locarno for this hypnotic study set in the deep recesses of nature. Nana is a work full of quiet patience, observation, and subtle revelations: the world of a young girl seen from the outside and with exquisite sensitivity.

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Awards & Festivals

Locarno International Film Festival

2011 | Winner: Best First Feature

International Film Festival Rotterdam

2012

Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente

2012

Istanbul Film Festival

2012

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Cast & Crew

Articles from the Notebook

People Should Be Taken Care Of: Valérie Massadian Discusses “Milla”

An interview with the French director of the prize-winning drama of a poor 17-year-old girl who has to mature faster than nature intended.
Matt Turner
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Notes Around “Nana,” Part 1

With Valérie Massadian’s film debuting on MUBI, quotes from Jean Epstein, Antonin Artaud, Élie Faure, Rivette, Huillet, and others.
Andy Rector

Naked Childhood: Valérie Massadian’s “Nana”

In Valérie Massadian’s Nana, childhood is redrawn as a time of beautiful and disquieting solitude.
Blair McClendon

First Look 2012

A guide to New York’s new film festival of overlooked treasures playing at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens.
Jesse Cataldo
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