Outburst: Céline Sciamma in Conversation + shorts

Outburst: Céline Sciamma in Conversation + shorts showing at Queen's Film Theatre, Belfast.

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Outburst: Céline Sciamma in Conversation + shorts

Outburst: Céline Sciamma in Conversation + shorts

Showing: 15 November 2026

Show Times
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Sun 15 Nov 2026
17:00

CertificateNot Rated

LanguageFrench, English

Running Time1HR 30MINS

Season
Main Programme,
Outburst Queer Arts Festival

This is Céline Sciamma as you’ve never seen her: solo shooting, raw, unfiltered, singing, documenting herself on screen, as well as our grieving, loving times, in these two delicate new film-poems.

This is How a Child Becomes a Poet, her first entirely self-made film, is a love letter and an elegy, filmed at the house of Italian poet Patrizia Cavalli just after her death, when her vivid creative spirit is still palpable in her manuscripts – and her prized signed photograph of Kim Novak, the screen presence who awoke her desire to write and to love women. Amid the memories, Sciamma enacts a ritual of cinematic time travel, dancing across eras and forms.

Work-in-progress Tutti Frutti is full of world travel, time travel and travel into the unique vision of a filmmaker reinventing herself. Montaging powerful protests for Palestine and the bitter end of the #MeToo movement with moments of reflectiveness and intimacy in a world on fire, the film’s meditative, gentle angry carrier bag gathers us together in our moment, asking how (in Ursula K. Le Guin’s words) to be mud – tactile and tactical – for a frightening future.

After the screening, Céline Sciamma will join us to offer her thoughts on what’s now and next, and how we create it together, in conversation with writer and feminist film curator So Mayer.

Text by So Mayer.

Show Times
Select a time below to book


Sun 15 Nov 2026
17:00

CertificateNot Rated

LanguageFrench, English

Running Time1HR 30MINS

Season
Main Programme,
Outburst Queer Arts Festival