Girl

2023

1 hr. 27 min.

Drama

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96%

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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.

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Adura Onashile

Director

Déborah Lukumuena

Actor

Danny Sapani

Actor

Le'Shantey Bonsu

Actor

Liana Turner

Actor

Adura Onashile

Screenwriter

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Wendy Ide

Observer (UK)

Small and slight in scale but sensitively drawn, this thoughtful feature debut from Adura Onashile has a quiet power, much of which is channelled through the wary eyes of the remarkable Lukumuena.

Rated: 3/5

Nov 26, 2023

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Leslie Felperin

Guardian

Writer-director Adura Onashile evokes the squelching intimacies between women, be they friends or blood relatives, bonds that can be both thrilling and suffocating.

Rated: 3/5

Nov 22, 2023

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Dwight Brown

DwightBrownInk.com

What’s on view is way too sad for way too long as this small drama is overshadowed by its fancy production elements. Yet, the directing technique exhibited by filmmaker Adura Onashile, in her first film, is promising.

Rated: 2.5/4

Feb 1, 2023

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Eddie Harrison

film-authority.com

‘…in a media where immigrants are regularly demonised for political gain, Girl makes a point just be existing in the mainstream at all; it’s not hard to empathise with Grace’s situation and easy to be moved by her fragile predicament…

Rated: 4/5

Dec 8, 2023

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Sophie Terakes

FILMINK (Australia)

… a rich, moving and complex story of love and hope; the film merely lacks the depth to properly convey it.

Rated: 16/20

Nov 22, 2023

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Damon Wise

Deadline Hollywood Daily

As a calling card, Girl is an impeccable achievement for everyone involved, but for audiences, it’s a rewarding study of alienation that refracts the immigrant experience through a refreshingly different lens.

Oct 4, 2023

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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, challenges the rules of their insular world and gradually forces Grace to reckon with a past she struggles to forget.

Director: Adura Onashile
Screenwriter: Adura Onashile
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English