Girlhood

Story

Marieme lives with her family in the banlieue. The shy girl’s parents are always fighting, the neighbourhood is ruled by boys and school is a cul-de-sac. But then Marieme joins a gang of three other girls and begins to skip school, roam the local shopping centres and skirmish with rival gangs. The shy teenager becomes a self-confident young woman pushing her limits ever further into dangerous areas. The coming-of-age drama’s unusual form is carried well by its four amateur protagonists.

Director

CÉLINE SCIAMMA (*1980) studied screenplay writing at the Paris film school La fémis and presented her debut Water Lilies in 2007. It was followed by Tomboy (2011) which won several prizes, Girlhood (2014) and Portrait of a Lady on Fire, which ran in competition at Cannes and won Best Screenplay. Sciamma has also written many screenplays, including Claude Barras‘ My Life as a Courgette and André Téchiné’s Being 17.

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