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A high-achieving school prefect experiences desire for the first time in this drama, that's a two-time Sundance Film Festival award winner, that's an honest and universal version of the coming-of-age tale.

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00:00Director Tsuchi Delaty's debut feature Girls Be Girls won two awards at the Sundance Film

00:04Festival this year, and it's easy to see why. It's a refreshingly candid take on the coming-of-age

00:09film. Set in the 90s, Mira is a prefect at a strict boarding school in the Himalayas.

00:14She falls for a boy who's recently moved from Hong Kong, but she butts heads with her mother,

00:19Anila. Although it is quite culturally specific, there's also something quite universal and

00:23relatable about the transition from girlhood to womanhood that the film depicts, and it's

00:28very honest and thoughtful without being sentimental. The way it depicts young love

00:33and lust and that kind of awakening is quite sweet and humorous at times, but it also doesn't shy

00:38away from the harsh realities of that. There's a subplot where Mira is harassed by predatory

00:43teenage boys that's a reminder that the onus is put on girls for boys' worst impulses.

00:49But the heart of the film is the fraught relationship that Mira has with her mother,

00:52who's only trying to protect her while still giving her some trust, and that desire for

00:56connection is truly what the film is about.

Girls Will Be Girls (REVIEW) | Projector Shorts | A frank, Sundance winning coming-of-age film

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