Naman Ramachandran A first trailer has been unveiled for feature directing debutant Shuchi Talati‘s “Girls Will Be Girls,” world premiering at Sundance’s world cinema dramatic competition.
The film is set in an elite boarding school in a small Himalayan hill town in northern India and follows the story of Mira, a 16-year-old girl whose sexy, rebellious awakening is hijacked by her mother who never got to come-of-age.
Malayalam cinema actor Kani Kusruti (“Pada”) is playing one of the leads. The film marks the debut of emerging actors Preeti Panigrahi and Kesav Binoy Kiron who also have lead roles. “Girls Will Be Girls” is an India-France-Norway coproduction.
Producers include India’s Pushing Buttons Studios and Crawling Angel Films and France’s Dolce Vita Films (2019 Venice and Cairo winner “A Son”).
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