Stella is 2008 French autobiographical film directed by Sylvie Verheyde.
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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