Girls Will Be Girls
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Winner, World Cinema Audience Award, 2024 Sundance Film Festival
Winner, Special Jury Award for Acting, 2024 Sundance Film Festival
Winner, Grand Jury Award for Best Feature, 2024 Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles
Southeast Premiere!
In a strict boarding school nestled in the Himalayas, Mira is a successful student shouldering high expectations from her parents and her teachers. But as she wrestles with new desires and ample curiosity inspired by the handsome Sri, she finds herself at odds with the school’s strict rules and her mother’s incessant involvement in her new romance. As Mira strives to escape the watchful eyes of her teachers, mother and fellow students and find time alone with Sri, she approaches learning about love with the same dedication that she applies to her studies, resulting in sometimes comic and shocking conclusions. Winner of two prizes at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival–the World Cinema Drama Audience Award and a Special Jury Award for Acting–this sublime coming-of-age tale deeply understands girlhood and is a masterclass in mother -daughter tension during awkward adolescence.
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2024, 118 minutes, India/France/USA/Norway, In English and Hindi with English subtitles, Directed by Shuchi Talati
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“A resonant and impeccably written film on generational female awakening, mother-daughter affection and rivalry, and bodily autonomy, Girls Will Be Girls is exactly the kind of feminine coming-of-age film (for any age) that we need more of.”
– Tomris Laffly, HARPER’S BAZAAR -
“Talati’s work with her young cast is first-rate; this sensitively handled coming-of-age picture deservedly won an audience prize at Sundance earlier this year.”
– Wendy Ide, OBSERVER (UK) -
“Girls Will Be Girls is a modest work, but like some of the greatest films, it comes to vivid life before our eyes.”
– Bilge Ebiri, NEW YORK MAGAZINE/VULTURE -
“A profoundly moving document of generational girlhood.”
- Peyton Robinson, ROGEREBERT.COM -
“It’s a perceptive, first-rate drama and an auspicious directorial debut.”
– Dennis Harvey, 48 HILLS -
“A tender, unflinching and engrossing coming-of-age story. Preeti Panigrahi gives a breakthrough performance.”
– Avi Offer, NYC MOVIE GURU
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