Film
Girls Will Be Girls (15)
Dir. Shuchi Talati, India, 2024, 118 minutes. In English and Hindi with English subtitles. Cast. Preeti Panigrahi, Kani Kusruti, Kesav Binoy Kiron.
Mira is a perfect teenage student in her final year at a strict boarding school in the Himalayas. However, her life is thrown off course by her sexual awakening, as she becomes passionately involved with a new student, recently arrived from abroad. Tensions rise when Mira brings him home and finds herself competing with her overbearing mother for his attention, creating a bizarre yet captivating love triangle. A beautiful coming-of-age tale, Girls Will Be Girls is a sensitive and warm depiction of female awakening.
This stellar debut feature from Shuchi Talati won the World Cinema Audience Award at Sundance this year.
For detailed information about the film's age rating and content notices, you can visit the BBFC website and search the film title, then scroll down to the “Content Advice” section: www.bbfc.co.uk
The 8pm screening on Saturday 19 October will be preceded by a short film from the Artist Moving Image Programme “Moving Waters”:
Three Waters: Tears, Tea, Sea (Alma and Brett Studholme, 5 mins)
The film documents a tea ceremony by a mother and daughter. While facing the seas that separate them, they are cradling warm teacups cast from each other’s hands. This evokes the warmth of each other’s touch and the ritual becomes a way of both confronting and overcoming their physical distance. Alma Studholme and Brett Studholme are collaborative life partners working in a multidisciplinary art context which includes video, animation, sound, performance and installation. They are based in Sydney, Australia.
Mira is a perfect teenage student in her final year at a strict boarding school in the Himalayas. However, her life is thrown off course by her sexual awakening, as she becomes passionately involved with a new student, recently arrived from abroad. Tensions rise when Mira brings him home and finds herself competing with her overbearing mother for his attention, creating a bizarre yet captivating love triangle. A beautiful coming-of-age tale, Girls Will Be Girls is a sensitive and warm depiction of female awakening.
This stellar debut feature from Shuchi Talati won the World Cinema Audience Award at Sundance this year.
For detailed information about the film's age rating and content notices, you can visit the BBFC website and search the film title, then scroll down to the “Content Advice” section: www.bbfc.co.uk
The 8pm screening on Saturday 19 October will be preceded by a short film from the Artist Moving Image Programme “Moving Waters”:
Three Waters: Tears, Tea, Sea (Alma and Brett Studholme, 5 mins)
The film documents a tea ceremony by a mother and daughter. While facing the seas that separate them, they are cradling warm teacups cast from each other’s hands. This evokes the warmth of each other’s touch and the ritual becomes a way of both confronting and overcoming their physical distance. Alma Studholme and Brett Studholme are collaborative life partners working in a multidisciplinary art context which includes video, animation, sound, performance and installation. They are based in Sydney, Australia.
