Stella is 2008 French autobiographical film directed by Sylvie Verheyde.
Plot The film chronicles the daily life of an 11-year-old Parisian girl. Her unhappily married parents run a lively working-class bar, marked by infidelity and alcoholism, and she interacts with its rough and sometimes violent clientele. At school she performs poorly and is bullied. During the holidays she is left with her grandmother and aunt in the countryside. Throughout, she struggles as an outsider but finds support in her two friends.
Cast Léora Barbara as Stella Mélissa Rodrigues as Gladys Laëtitia Guerard as Geneviève Benjamin Biolay as Stella's father Karole Rocher as Stella's mother Thierry Neuvic as Yvon Guillaume Depardieu as Alain-Bernard Anne Benoît as Madame Douchewsky
Festivals and awards Official selection at the 2009 Seattle International Film Festival The Lina Mangiacapre Award, and also a Christopher D. Smithers Foundation Special Award for education about the disease of alcoholism, at the 65th Venice International Film Festival
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