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GIRLHOOD<\/h2>\nGIRLHOOD<\/h2>\n| 2015 – 102′ –\u00a0\u00a0Drama, Coming of Age. Fed up with her abusive family situation, lack of school prospects and the \u201cboys\u2019 law\u201d in the neighborhood, Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of three free-spirited girls. Her encounter changes everything. She changes her name, her style, drops out of school and starts stealing to be accepted into the gang. When her home situation becomes unbearable, Marieme seeks solace in an older man who promises her money and protection. Realizing this sort of lifestyle will never result in the freedom and independence she truly desires, she finally decides to take matters into her own hands. One of the best Coming-Of-Age films in years by the director of TOMBOY, WATER LILIES and PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n GIRLHOOD | 2015 – 102′ –\u00a0\u00a0Drama, Coming of Age. Written &\u00a0Directed by C\u00e9line Sciamma. Starring\u00a0Karidja Tour\u00e9,\u00a0Assa Sylla,\u00a0Lindsay Karamoh, Mari\u00e9tou Tour\u00e9, Idrissa Diabat\u00e9. Official Selection Director’s Fortnight Cannes Film Festival, Toronto International\u00a0Film Festival, Sundance\u00a0Film Festival. In French with English subtitles. A Strand Releasing release.| Trailer Fed up with her abusive family situation, lack of school prospects […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8037,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,11,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coming-of-age","category-drama","category-women-directors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8036"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18104,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8036\/revisions\/18104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWritten &\u00a0Directed by C\u00e9line Sciamma.
\nStarring\u00a0Karidja Tour\u00e9,\u00a0Assa Sylla,\u00a0Lindsay Karamoh, Mari\u00e9tou Tour\u00e9, Idrissa Diabat\u00e9.
\nOfficial Selection Director’s Fortnight Cannes Film Festival, Toronto International\u00a0Film Festival, Sundance\u00a0Film Festival.
\nIn French with English subtitles.
\nA Strand Releasing release.|<\/span><\/p>\nTrailer<\/a><\/h4>\n
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