In just over one hour, with a film that is already imbued with magic and whimsy, Céline Sciamma (PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE) performs a powerful trick: she breaks your heart and then compassionately mends it. Following the death of her beloved grandmother, young Nelly accompanies her bereaved parents to her mother’s childhood home to clean it and prepare it to be sold. While wandering in the woods near the house she meets another young girl, and the two become fast friends. Through this new relationship, Nelly becomes closer to her mother in surprising and enchanting ways. Tender, ethereal, and quietly miraculous, PETITE MAMAN is a gentle breeze of a film that—without an ounce of pretension—explores grief, childhood, memory, and even time travel, leaving the audience feeling that deeper connections with one another are not only possible, they are the very purpose of life.