Mia Hansen-Løve

Turn it up. Mia Hansen-Løve wrote this story of the French electronic music scene with her brother, the DJ its hero is based on, and once Daft Punk let her have their music for the minimum fee, the other acts followed. It’s about a generation that keeps dancing even after the music dies down. — French house is only just getting going in 1990s Paris, and Paul, a teenager with a bag full of records, is playing his first sets in basements. He and his best friend start a duo called Cheers and find a crowd almost straight away. From then on, the nights only get longer. — Official Selection | San Sebastián Film Festival | 2014

Léa Seydoux (“Blue Is the Warmest Colour”) plays a woman who falls in love just as her father, a man who has lived his whole life among books, can no longer read them. In Mia Hansen-Løve’s film, grief and happiness arrive in the same week, and there’s no planning for either. — Sandra is bringing up a young child on her own while looking after her ageing father, Georg. He lives surrounded by books he can no longer read, and now he’s losing his sight and his speech too. While she and Georg’s ex-wife search for a care home that will take him, and for somewhere his books can go, Sandra runs into Clément, an old friend of her late husband’s, in a park. — Label Europa Cinemas Award | Cannes Film Festival | 2022 Official Selection - Directors' Fortnight | Cannes Film Festival | 2022 Nominated for Best European Actress (Léa Seydoux) | European Film Awards | 2022

Ingmar Bergman wrote and shot many of his films on Fårö, and that’s where Mia Hansen-Løve brings Vicky Krieps and Tim Roth, while Mia Wasikowska and Anders Danielsen Lie star in a film that’s still taking shape in someone’s head. Slowly, one story starts to seep into the other. — Chris and Tony, a married couple who both make films, rent a house for the summer on Fårö, the island where Ingmar Bergman lived and worked. Tony writes with ease and finds an audience already waiting for him, while Chris can’t even get her screenplay started. So she slips out of a screening and goes exploring the island with a young Swedish film student. — Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 2021

Mia Hansen-Løve (“Bergman Island”) won the Silver Bear for Best Director at Berlin for this story of a Paris philosophy teacher, played by Isabelle Huppert, who loves teaching people to think. One by one she loses everything her life was built on, until all she has left is her freedom. — Nathalie has taught philosophy at a Paris lycée for years when, over dinner, her husband announces he’s leaving her for another woman. Her publisher loses interest in her books, and her mother dies, leaving her an old black cat called Pandora. A former student of hers now lives in a commune of young anarchists in the mountains, so Nathalie goes to see him. — Best Director | Berlin International Film Festival | 2016