Title: Girl
Original Title: Girl
Year: 2018
Info
- Country: Belgium Holland
- Length: 105 Minutes (1 hour 45 min)
- Genre: Drama
- Distributor: Vértigo Films
- Age rating: 15 (Suitable only for 15 years and over)
Release Dates
- UK: March 15 2019
- United States: January 18 2019
Plot
The film debut of Lukas Dhont with Victor Polster as the protagonist (and winner of the Un Certain Regard for best actor) is called 'Girl' and comes stomping. Adolescence is a hard stage for everyone, but when you belong to an oppressed collective the world becomes an even worse place. Spectators who go to see 'Girl' will find a surprising and sensitive portrait of what it is like to be a trans girl. The struggle for acceptance ends up becoming the day to day of this young woman whose only dream is to become the great dancer she has always dreamed of. The metaphor reads by itself.
We hope that in the future trans women films will also have trans women or women as main characters, since not many films manage to talk about this reality without having trans people on the team.
Awards
- 2019 Golden Globes: 1 0
- 2019 Goya Awards: 1 0
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Trivia
Race for the Oscar
This film has been selected to represent Belgium for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 91st Academy Awards.
Inspiration
Lukas Dhont got his inspiration for the film in 2009 when he read a newspaper article about a Belgian girl assigned male at birth who aspired to become a ballerina. In 2018, she attended the Cannes premiere.
Genderless casting
The casting call for the protagonist was genderless, i.e. open for girls, boys, and those who were neither. 500 people between 14 and 17 auditioned but none of them could both dance and act well, so the filmmakers decided to cast the rest of the dancers first, and there they found Victor Polster.
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