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No More Flowers

GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS

• Director: Shuchi Talati
• INDIA, FRANCE, USA, NORWAY / 2024 / DCP / Colour / 118’ / English, Hindi; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Shuchi Talati
• Director of Photography: Jih-E Peng
• Editing: Amrita David
• Music: Pierre Oberkampf, Sneha Khanwalkar
• Cast: Preeti Panigrahi, Kani Kusruti, Kesav Binoy Kiron
• Producer: Richa Chadha, Claire Chassagne, Shuchi Talati
• Production Co.: Dolce Vita Films, Pushing Buttons Studio, Crawling Angels Films
• World Sales: Luxbox

2024 Sundance Special Jury Award–Acting, Audience Award–World Cinema, Dramatic | 2024 Sofia Best Director

Is there a sure way to grow up? Even when girls will be girls in a men’s world? In a strict boarding school nestled in the Himalayas, Mira discovers desire and romance; but her sexual, rebellious awakening is disrupted by her mother who never got to come-of-age herself. To Mira, her best years are hijacked. The tension rises and rises. First-time feature director Shuchi Talati portrays a complex mother-daughter relationship and adolescent self-discovery with all its conflicting emotions. Director Talati shot Girls Will Be Girls by a mostly female crew to ensure the comfort of the cast, ‘open up mental space,’ and ‘totally out of spite.’ ‘I went to a school where we were heavily policed. We were made to feel ashamed of our sexuality and our bodies. So I would say I started writing from a place of rebellion.’

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.