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Girlhood
​Bande de filles

Céline Sciamma  •   France  • ​  2014
113 mins  •  HD  •   M offensive language
In French with English subtitles

From the director of Portrait of a Lady on Fire, this energetic and deeply empathetic drama follows a shy Parisian teenager drawn into a black girl gang.

“Empowering and electrifying” – Observer
DIRECTOR/SCREENPLAY: Céline Sciamma
PRODUCER: Bénédicte Couvreur
PRODUCTION CO: Hold Up Films, Lilies Films

PHOTOGRAPHY: Crystel Fournier
EDITOR: Julien Lacheray
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MUSIC: Para One
WITH: Karidja Touré (Marieme/Vic), Assa Sylla (Lady/Sophie), Lindsay Karamoh (Adiatou), Mariétou Touré (Fily), Idrissa Diabaté (Ismaël), Simina Soumare (Bébé), Cyril Mendy (Djibril), Djibril Gueye (Abou)

FESTIVALS: Cannes, Venice, Toronto

REVIEWS

“Bursting onto the screen in a blast of buzzing power pop, Girlhood from Céline Sciamma (Water Lilies, Tomboy) is marked from the outset by its energetic embrace of the complexity and contradictions of underprivileged, urban teenage life. An (American) football game is in progress, but the players beneath the pads are all female, mostly black, and speak a slangy colloquial French: they are, as the French title has it, a ‘Bande de filles’, a gang of girls from the same notorious Parisian suburbs that spawned La Haine.

Choosing to locate her story in these drab, socio-economically depressed surroundings and to tell it through the eyes of a young black girl is not only a departure for Sciamma, whose previously equally well-observed coming-of-age tales have played out in mostly white middle class settings, but a risk, and yet it pays off in absolutely triumphant fashion. Girlhood is a fascinatingly layered, textured film that manages to be both a lament for sweetness lost and a celebration of wisdom and identity gained, often at the very same moment.”

— Jessica Kiang, The Playlist


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Monday, 04 September, 7.00pm​

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Tuesday, 26 September, 6.00pm​​

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