In the woods behind the house of her late grandmother, eight-year-old Nelly goes searching for the tree fort where her mother, Marion, played as a child. There she encounters a girl who could be her own mirror image. Her name is also Marion, and when she takes Nelly home with her, the house looks almost the same as her grandma’s, and Marion’s mother walks with the same limp as Nelly’s beloved grandmother. Best not to say any more about the plot of the enchanting Petite Maman, whose mysteries unfold with the matter-of-fact simplicity of a fable. In her first film since Portrait of Lady on Fire (PSIFF 2020), the brilliant Céline Sciamma filters her themes of loss, grief and the complex bond between mothers and daughters through the eyes of her imaginative child protagonist.