Girls Will Be Girls (15)
Shuchi Talati, 2024 1h 59m
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Standard £10
Concessions & Towner Members £9
Under 25s £7
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The award-winning feature debut from Shuchi Talati – one of a new wave of young filmmakers in India making fresh, distinctive and boundary pushing cinema – Girls Will Be Girls is a stirring, complex and beautifully performed portrait of girlhood and the weight of a culture that polices female sexuality.
In a strict boarding school nestled in the Himalayas, 16-year-old high achiever Mira (Preeti Panigrahi) discovers love and desire when she meets new boy Sri (Kesav Binoy Kiron) But their covert romance is at odds with her good girl reputation, and her rebellious sexual awakening is curiously disrupted by her mother (Kani Kusruti), who never got to come of age herself.
“A head prefect’s burgeoning romance is one more thing she needs to excel at in Shuchi Talati’s Sundance audience prize-winning tale of sexual awakening” ★★★★ The Guardian