30/5 — 5/6/2024
64th International Film Festival
for Children and Youth

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Section: Festival Laurels from around the World

Girl (2023) 15

United Kingdom | 2023 | 87 min.

Eleven-year-old Ama and her mother, Grace, take solace in the gentle but isolated world they obsessively create. But Ama’s thirst for life and her need to grow and develop challenges the rules of their insular world and gradually forces Grace to reckon with a past she struggles to forget.

CountryUnited Kingdom
Year2023
Duration87 min
Rating15
LanguageEnglish
SubtitleCzech
Directed by Adura Onashile
Screenplay Adura Onashile
Director of Photography Tasha Back
Music Ré Olunuga
Edited by Stella Heath Keir
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Biography

British actress, playwright, director and screenwriter. Having long worked in theatre, she established herself by directing many plays presented in prestigious contexts. Her first film was the short Expensive Shit (2020). She later made the feature romantic drama Girl (2023).

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