Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar

Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar (born January 26, 1963) is a French film director, producer and screenwriter. She is most noted for her 2016 film Heaven Will Wait (Le Ciel attendra), for which she was a nominee for the Lumières Award for Best Screenplay at the 22nd Lumières Awards. Her newest film, A Good Man, was named as an Official Selection of the 2020 Cannes Film Festival. Source: Article "Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Bowling (2012)

The story takes place in Carhaix, in the heart of Brittany. A small hospital, with a calm maternity clinic, where few births take place. Mathilde, a mid-wife, Firmine, a pediatric nurse, and Louise, the owner of the Carhaix bowling alley, are all friends and lead a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar
CAST:  Catherine Frot  •  Mathilde Seigner  •  Firmine Richard  •  Laurence Arné

The story takes place in Carhaix, in the heart of Brittany. A small hospital, with a calm maternity clinic, where few births take place. Mathilde, a mid-wife, Firmine, a pediatric nurse, and Louise, the owner of the Carhaix bowling alley, are all friends and lead a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar
CAST:  Catherine Frot  •  Mathilde Seigner  •  Firmine Richard  •  Laurence Arné

Heaven Will Wait (2016)

Mélanie, 16 years old, lives with her mother. She likes going to school, her friends, playing the cello, and she wants to change the world. But when she meets a boy on the Internet and falls in love with him, her world changes as she is gradually recruited by Daesh ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar
CAST:  Clotilde Courau  •  Sandrine Bonnaire  •  Noémie Merlant  •  Naomi Amarger

Mélanie, 16 years old, lives with her mother. She likes going to school, her friends, playing the cello, and she wants to change the world. But when she meets a boy on the Internet and falls in love with him, her world changes as she is gradually recruited by Daesh ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar
CAST:  Clotilde Courau  •  Sandrine Bonnaire  •  Noémie Merlant  •  Naomi Amarger

Once in a Lifetime (2014)

Based on a true story. In Léon Blum high school in Créteil (France), a history teacher decides to have her weakest 10th grade class take a national history competition. This will change them.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar
CAST:  Ariane Ascaride  •  Ahmed Dramé  •  Noémie Merlant  •  Geneviève Mnich

Based on a true story. In Léon Blum high school in Créteil (France), a history teacher decides to have her weakest 10th grade class take a national history competition. This will change them.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar
CAST:  Ariane Ascaride  •  Ahmed Dramé  •  Noémie Merlant  •  Geneviève Mnich

My First Time (2012)

Zachary is 20 years old. Dark and independent, he collects amorous conquests and school failure. Sarah is 18 years old. First class, fragile, she fills her emotional gaps with perfect control of his life. Nothing should close and yet, the year of the tank, for six ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar
CAST:  Esther Comar  •  Martin Cannavo  •  Vincent Perez  •  Judith El Zein

Zachary is 20 years old. Dark and independent, he collects amorous conquests and school failure. Sarah is 18 years old. First class, fragile, she fills her emotional gaps with perfect control of his life. Nothing should close and yet, the year of the tank, for six ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar
CAST:  Esther Comar  •  Martin Cannavo  •  Vincent Perez  •  Judith El Zein

La fête des mères (2018)

They are the President of the Republic, a nanny, a baker, an actress, a teacher, a florist, a journalist, unemployed, a pediatrician. They are possessive, benevolent, clumsy, absent, omnipresent, overwhelmed, guilty, indulgent, loving, fragile, in full possession ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar
CAST:  Audrey Fleurot  •  Clotilde Courau  •  Olivia Côte  •  Nicole Garcia

They are the President of the Republic, a nanny, a baker, an actress, a teacher, a florist, a journalist, unemployed, a pediatrician. They are possessive, benevolent, clumsy, absent, omnipresent, overwhelmed, guilty, indulgent, loving, fragile, in full possession ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar
CAST:  Audrey Fleurot  •  Clotilde Courau  •  Olivia Côte  •  Nicole Garcia

A Good Man (2021)

Benjamin and Aude have loved each other for 7 years. They live together on a small island in Brittany. Benjamin dreams of starting a family but the couple learns that Aude is sterile. So Benjamin has an idea. He is the one who will bear their child because before ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar
CAST:  Noémie Merlant  •  SoKo  •  Vincent Dedienne  •  Gabriel Almaer

Benjamin and Aude have loved each other for 7 years. They live together on a small island in Brittany. Benjamin dreams of starting a family but the couple learns that Aude is sterile. So Benjamin has an idea. He is the one who will bear their child because before ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar
CAST:  Noémie Merlant  •  SoKo  •  Vincent Dedienne  •  Gabriel Almaer

Divertimento (2023)

’95–’96, year of high school. Only 17 years old, Zahia Ziouni becomes aware that her dream of becoming a conductor and her ambition to make symphonic music accessible to all and in all territories, will go through the creation of an orchestra unique in its ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar
CAST:  Oulaya Amamra  •  Lina El Arabi  •  Niels Arestrup  •  Zinedine Soualem

’95–’96, year of high school. Only 17 years old, Zahia Ziouni becomes aware that her dream of becoming a conductor and her ambition to make symphonic music accessible to all and in all territories, will go through the creation of an orchestra unique in its ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar
CAST:  Oulaya Amamra  •  Lina El Arabi  •  Niels Arestrup  •  Zinedine Soualem