Innocence takes place in an unusual, all-girls boarding school. Innocence is not told in a conventional start-to-finish manner. It begins with the end titles as a young girl arrives in a coffin at a mysterious boarding school. A gaggle of other girls opens her coffin; assigns her a special color and a team to belong to. From there, the film follows three separate girls and their regular routines. Alongside young Iris, there’s the ballet-obsessed, ever curious Alice, desperate to get out and see what lies beyond the wall, and Bianca, in her last year at the school, who often makes surreptitious nighttime trips up to the main house. This coming of age, mysterious narrative displays dazzling cinematography and immaculate performances by the young actresses.

“David Lynch meets Picnic at Hanging Rock in a girls’ school. Pleasurably allusive and provocative in its dense symbolism.” – French Film Festival


Born in Lyon, France in 1961. Lucile Hadzihalilovic directed her first feature, La Bouche de Jean-Pierre in 1996. Her other film, Good Boys Use Condoms was made in 1998. Hadzilhalilovic has written all of her feature films.

Producers: Patrick Sobelman Screenwriter: Lucile Hadzihalilovic Cinematographer: Benoît Debie Editor: Adam Finch Music: Richard Cooke Cast: Zoé Auclair, Bérangère H
aubruge, Lea Bridarolli, Marion Cotillard