EXCLUSIVE: Warsaw-based New Europe Film Sales has acquired world sales rights for Adura Onashile’s feature debut Girl, starring rising French actress Déborah Lukumuena and big screen debutant Le’Shantey Bonsu.
The buzzy title, which was unveiled at the 2022 BFI London Film Festival’s Works in Progress showcase, was announced today as having been selected for the World Dramatic Competition of Sundance’s upcoming edition, running January 19-29, 2023 The Scotland-set drama tells the story of eleven-year-old Ama and her mother, Grace, who 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.
Established Glasgow-based theatre actress and director Onashile (Expensive Shit) wrote the screenplay and directs. It marks the first English-language role for Lukumuena, who broke out internationally with her César-winning performance in Cannes Caméra d’Or winner Divines and has since won praise for roles in The Braves and opposite Gérard Depardieu in Robust.
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