Mia Hansen-Løve

Directing

Mia Hansen-Løve

Born 1981-02-05 · Paris, France

Mia Hansen-Løve (born 5 February 1981) is a French film director, screenwriter and former actress. Her film The Father of My Children, won the Special Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. In 2016, she won the Silver Bear for Best Director for her film Things to Come at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival.

Acting credits

Late August, Early September poster
5.9

A book editor juggles relationships with two women while coping with his best friend's terminal illness.

Late August, Early September

1999

Searching for Ingmar Bergman poster
5.9

A meaningful account of the personal and professional life of the great Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) that explores his film legacy, with interviews with his closest collaborators and a new generation of filmmakers.

Searching for Ingmar Bergman

2018

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Is there such a thing as strictly feminine cinema? Is it more difficult for a woman than for a man to direct a film? Is gender parity necessary in the industry? Actress and producer Julie GAYET and actor and director Mathieu BUSSON ask these questions to twenty French woman filmmakers, who face a camera together for the first time. After over an hour of lively, informal, spontaneous and funny interviews, it becomes obvious that these issues are still problematic and definitely worthy of a documentary. As Mia HANSEN-LØVE remarks, “In the eyes of the people, a woman’s film is always a woman’s film, while a man’s movie is simply… a movie”.

Cinéast(e)s

2013

Being Bo Widerberg poster
8.0

The documentary chronicles Bo Widerberg's journey from 1960s Malmö, where he worked as a writer and film critic, to his successes as a director in Stockholm and international adventures in Cannes and New York. The film also explores the personal costs of his artistic vision and how his pursuit of life and authenticity affected both himself and those around him.

Being Bo Widerberg

2025

Sentimental Destinies poster
5.5

In late nineteenth century Charante, Protestant minister Jean Barnery causes local disquiet when he arranges a separation from his obsessive wife. He and his lover keep their love strong as the world changes around them.

Sentimental Destinies

2000

Gérard Blain : adultes, je vous hais poster
NR

A portrait of Gérard Blain, actor and film-maker, an unclassifiable artist, a lard-head and a free spirit. This documentary, packed with eyewitness accounts and archive footage, looks back at his brief career as an actor, his stormy relationship with the Nouvelle Vague and his uncompromising work as a filmmaker. Above all, it paints the portrait of a man with an irreducible character who claims to have always hated adults and their cynicism, ever since his damaged childhood.

Gérard Blain : adultes, je vous hais

2019

Isabelle Huppert, une vie pour jouer poster
6.7

Serge Toubiana spent a year in the company of Isabelle Huppert. Where she went, he followed. Huppert is an around-the-clock actress so she doesn't need the cinema to exist – she embodies the cinema. When she's not performing, she doesn't exist. From film to film, on stage as on screen, Huppert invites us to survey those inner landscapes of hers that we don't yet know.

Isabelle Huppert, une vie pour jouer

2001

Bergman's Ghosts poster
5.0

Super-8 footage captured while filming Bergman Island. In voice-over, filmmaker Mia Hansen-Løve offers intimate reflections on her creative process on the island of Fårö and her relationship with Bergman and Swedish cinema.

Bergman's Ghosts

2021

Behind the camera

One Fine Morning poster
6.4

With a father suffering from neurodegenerative disease, a young woman lives with her eight-year-old daughter. While struggling to secure a decent nursing home, she runs into an unavailable friend with whom she embarks on an affair.

One Fine Morning

2022

One Fine Morning poster
6.4

With a father suffering from neurodegenerative disease, a young woman lives with her eight-year-old daughter. While struggling to secure a decent nursing home, she runs into an unavailable friend with whom she embarks on an affair.

One Fine Morning

2022

Bergman Island poster
6.3

An English-German filmmaking couple retreat to Fårö for the summer to each write screenplays for their upcoming films in an act of pilgrimage to the place that inspired Ingmar Bergman. As the summer and their screenplays advance, the lines between reality and fiction start to blur against the backdrop of the Island's wild landscape.

Bergman Island

2021

Bergman Island poster
6.3

An English-German filmmaking couple retreat to Fårö for the summer to each write screenplays for their upcoming films in an act of pilgrimage to the place that inspired Ingmar Bergman. As the summer and their screenplays advance, the lines between reality and fiction start to blur against the backdrop of the Island's wild landscape.

Bergman Island

2021

Eden poster
5.8

Paul, a teenager in the underground scene of early-nineties Paris, forms a DJ collective with his friends and together they plunge into the nightlife of sex, drugs, and endless music.

Eden

2014

Eden poster
5.8

Paul, a teenager in the underground scene of early-nineties Paris, forms a DJ collective with his friends and together they plunge into the nightlife of sex, drugs, and endless music.

Eden

2014

Things to Come poster
6.5

Nathalie teaches philosophy at a high school in Paris. She is passionate about her job and particularly enjoys passing on the pleasure of thinking. Married with two children, she divides her time between her family, former students and her very possessive mother. One day, Nathalie’s husband announces he is leaving her for another woman. With freedom thrust upon her, Nathalie must reinvent her life.

Things to Come

2016

Things to Come poster
6.5

Nathalie teaches philosophy at a high school in Paris. She is passionate about her job and particularly enjoys passing on the pleasure of thinking. Married with two children, she divides her time between her family, former students and her very possessive mother. One day, Nathalie’s husband announces he is leaving her for another woman. With freedom thrust upon her, Nathalie must reinvent her life.

Things to Come

2016

All Is Forgiven poster
6.5

A father and daughter are reunited some 11 years after the father's drug addiction tore the family apart.

All Is Forgiven

2007

All Is Forgiven poster
6.5

A father and daughter are reunited some 11 years after the father's drug addiction tore the family apart.

All Is Forgiven

2007

Goodbye First Love poster
6.2

A 15-year-old discovers the joys and heartaches of first love with an older teen, but in the ensuing years, cannot seem to move past their breakup.

Goodbye First Love

2011

Goodbye First Love poster
6.2

A 15-year-old discovers the joys and heartaches of first love with an older teen, but in the ensuing years, cannot seem to move past their breakup.

Goodbye First Love

2011

Father of My Children poster
6.7

Grégoire Canvel has everything a man could want. A wife he loves, three delightful children, and a stimulating job. He's a film producer. Discovering talented filmmakers and developing films that fit his conception of the cinema-free and true to life-is precisely his reason for living. Yet his prestigious production company, Moon Films, is on its last legs.

Father of My Children

2009

Father of My Children poster
6.7

Grégoire Canvel has everything a man could want. A wife he loves, three delightful children, and a stimulating job. He's a film producer. Discovering talented filmmakers and developing films that fit his conception of the cinema-free and true to life-is precisely his reason for living. Yet his prestigious production company, Moon Films, is on its last legs.

Father of My Children

2009

Maya poster
5.3

After 30-year-old French war reporter Gabriel Dahan is taken hostage in Syria, he heads to India following months in captivity.

Maya

2018

Maya poster
5.3

After 30-year-old French war reporter Gabriel Dahan is taken hostage in Syria, he heads to India following months in captivity.

Maya

2018

A Pure Spirit poster
4.6

On a wintery January afternoon, a girl walks in a park by herself. As groups of boys play football, she strolls about, observing the activities of her fellow park-goers.

A Pure Spirit

2004

A Pure Spirit poster
4.6

On a wintery January afternoon, a girl walks in a park by herself. As groups of boys play football, she strolls about, observing the activities of her fellow park-goers.

A Pure Spirit

2004

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NR

Mary Wollstonecraft, an impoverished young Englishwoman on the eve of the French Revolution, makes the bold decision to lead her life according to the ideals of the Enlightenment.

If Love Should Die

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Mary Wollstonecraft, an impoverished young Englishwoman on the eve of the French Revolution, makes the bold decision to lead her life according to the ideals of the Enlightenment.

If Love Should Die

After Much Thought poster
5.0

Jacques summons to lunch his two children, adults already. He is about to break up with their mother and the time has come for him to return, in a most honest possible way, on the stories of his past and present love life.

After Much Thought

2004

After Much Thought poster
5.0

Jacques summons to lunch his two children, adults already. He is about to break up with their mother and the time has come for him to return, in a most honest possible way, on the stories of his past and present love life.

After Much Thought

2004