GIRL
Directed by Adura Onashile
UK | 87 min | 2023 | Drama | English
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.
Credits
Director: Adura Onashile
Screenplay: Adura Onashile
Cinematography: Tasha Back
Editing: Stella Heath Keir
Production Design: Soraya Gilanni Viljoen
Costume Design: Kirsty Halliday
Music / Composer: Ré Olunuga
Sound on set: Becky Thomson
Sound design: William Aikman
Production company: barry crerar
Cast: Déborah Lukumuena, Danny Sapani, Le’shantey Bonsu, Liana Turner
With the financial support of:
THE BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE, BBC FILM, CREATIVE SCOTLAND
Adura Onashile
Festivals & Awards
- Sundance Film Festival 2023 – World Dramatic Competition
- Goteborg Film Festival 2023 – European premiere / Ingmar Bergman Competition
press quotes
“Tender Mother And Daughter Story”
“There are shades of Lynne Ramsay’s Ratcatcher in Onashile’s affecting film”
“As a calling card, Girl is an impeccable achievement for everyone, but for audiences, it’s a rewarding study of alienation that refracts the immigrant experience through a refreshingly different lens”
“the visual richness of this nonetheless spare, economical work has a gorgeously mesmeric quality”
“Confidently establishes its own mode of visual poetry”
“A central asset of GIRL is Lukumuena’s performance”
“GIRL should have healthy prospects in a receptive climate for contemplative, aesthetically fine-tuned UK cinema following the success of AFTERSUN.”
“A thoughtful and emotional approach to trauma (…) explores the weight of trauma with care and respect”
“an assured feature debut with excellent performances that refuses to skirt around difficult conversations.”
“a delicate and poignant film.”
