3rd i SFISAFF — Girls Will Be Girls

  • Two girls looking at their reflection at a tailor store

Director Shuchi Talati’s brilliant, richly layered romantic film masterfully explores the subtle complexities of a 16-year-old girl’s coming-of-age desires and sexual awakening. Set in the 1990s at a strict boarding school atop a Himalayan mountainscape in India, straitlaced Mira must navigate getting good grades, a budding romance with a handsome 17-year-old boy, and an unwelcome emotional love triangle involving her mother.

Runtime
1h 58m
Year
2024
Director
Shuchi Talati
Format
DCP
Country
INDIA/FRANCE/USA/NORWAY
Language
Hindi with English subtitles
First Showing
October 20, 2024