2023
year
87
Minutes
SCHEDULE
02.03.2024
/ 10:20 AM/
Audi 5 PVR INOX ORION MALL
04.03.2024
/ 03:10 PM/
Audi 4 PVR INOX ORION MALL
Synopsis
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 challenge the rules of their insular world and gradually force Grace to reckon with a past she struggles to forget.
Producer(s) or Production Company: Rosie Crerar, Ciara Barry
Screenplay: Adura Onashile
Director of Photography: Tasha Back
Editor: Stella Heath Keir
Music: Ré Olunuga
Sound: William Aikman
Cast: Déborah Lukumuena, Danny Sapani, Le’shantey Bonsu, Liana Turner
Awards - Winner: Blackstar FF (Jury Award - Best Feature Narrative)
Awards - Nominations | Screened | Official Selection: Sundance FF (Grand Jury Prize - World Cinema Dramatic), Goteborg FF (Best Debut Feature), British Independent Film Award (Breakthrough Performance - Le'Shantey Bonsu, Best Original Music)
Director's Biography
ADURA ONASHILE
Adura Onashile is an award-winning Glasgow-based artist. She has directed two productions, HELA AND EXPENSIVE S**T, for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, winning a Fringe First and Edinburgh Guide Best Scottish Contribution to Drama. In 2020, she wrote and directed her screen debut, EXPENSIVE SHIT, a BAFTA Scotland-nominated short produced by Barry Crerar, which premiered at the BFI London Film Festival 2020. GIRL is her first feature film.
- Asian Cinema Competition
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- Country Focus - Germany
- Critics Week
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- Kannada Cinema of Popular Entertainment
- Women Power in Filmmaking
- Unsung Incredible India - Films from little known languages
- Retrospective
- Centenary Tributes
- Homages & Remembrances
- Thematic Films on Human Resilience, Rights and Values