Girls Will Be Girls | |
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Directed by | Shuchi Talati |
Written by | Shuchi Talati |
Produced by |
Richa Chadha Claire Chassagne Shuchi Talati |
Starring |
Preeti Panigrahi Kesav Binoy Kiron Kani Kusruti |
Cinematography | Jih-E Peng |
Edited by | Amrita David |
Music by | Pierre Oberkampf Sneha Khanwalkar |
Production companies | Pushing Buttons Studios Blink Digital Cinema Inutile Crawling Angel Films Dolce Vita Films |
Distributed by | Luxbox |
Running time | 118 minutes |
Countries |
India France |
Languages |
Indian English Hindi |
Girls Will Be Girls (stylized in all-lowercase; Hindi: गर्ल्स विल बी गर्ल्स) is a 2024 Indo- French coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Shuchi Talati. [1] [2] [3] It stars Preeti Panigrahi, Kani Kusruti, and Kesav Binoy Kiron. [4] The film is director Talati's first feature, and the debut of Panigrahi and Kiron. [5] The film is set in a boarding school in the Himalayan foothills, and centers around the teenage protagonist Mira's romance with a charming new student, her subsequent sexual-awakening, and at times strained relationship to her protective mother. [6]
Talati conceived the story of the film in 2018, drawing from her own experiences as a young girl, her school in Vadodara, and Enid Blyton's book series Malory Towers and St. Clare's. At the direction of Talati, the film was produced by a majority female crew in order to create a safe space where "girls could be girls." The female crew include producers Claire Chassange and Richa Chadha, Taiwanese cinematographer Jih-E Peng, production designer Avyakta Kapur, and editor Amrita David. [1] The film was produced by Pushing Buttons Studios, and received a production grant from the French Aide aux Cinemas du Monde in 2021. [7] It was shot over 45 days in the northern Indian region of Uttarakhand, and in the capital Dehradun. [8] [9]
The film was selected for the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, participating in the competition section of the festival. [10] It was also entered for the 47th iteration of the Gothenburg Film Festival. [11]
Girls Will Be Girls | |
---|---|
Directed by | Shuchi Talati |
Written by | Shuchi Talati |
Produced by |
Richa Chadha Claire Chassagne Shuchi Talati |
Starring |
Preeti Panigrahi Kesav Binoy Kiron Kani Kusruti |
Cinematography | Jih-E Peng |
Edited by | Amrita David |
Music by | Pierre Oberkampf Sneha Khanwalkar |
Production companies | Pushing Buttons Studios Blink Digital Cinema Inutile Crawling Angel Films Dolce Vita Films |
Distributed by | Luxbox |
Running time | 118 minutes |
Countries |
India France |
Languages |
Indian English Hindi |
Girls Will Be Girls (stylized in all-lowercase; Hindi: गर्ल्स विल बी गर्ल्स) is a 2024 Indo- French coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Shuchi Talati. [1] [2] [3] It stars Preeti Panigrahi, Kani Kusruti, and Kesav Binoy Kiron. [4] The film is director Talati's first feature, and the debut of Panigrahi and Kiron. [5] The film is set in a boarding school in the Himalayan foothills, and centers around the teenage protagonist Mira's romance with a charming new student, her subsequent sexual-awakening, and at times strained relationship to her protective mother. [6]
Talati conceived the story of the film in 2018, drawing from her own experiences as a young girl, her school in Vadodara, and Enid Blyton's book series Malory Towers and St. Clare's. At the direction of Talati, the film was produced by a majority female crew in order to create a safe space where "girls could be girls." The female crew include producers Claire Chassange and Richa Chadha, Taiwanese cinematographer Jih-E Peng, production designer Avyakta Kapur, and editor Amrita David. [1] The film was produced by Pushing Buttons Studios, and received a production grant from the French Aide aux Cinemas du Monde in 2021. [7] It was shot over 45 days in the northern Indian region of Uttarakhand, and in the capital Dehradun. [8] [9]
The film was selected for the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, participating in the competition section of the festival. [10] It was also entered for the 47th iteration of the Gothenburg Film Festival. [11]