TOMBOY
2011, 78’
Director: Céline Sciamma
Country: France
Distributor: Teodora Film
Language: OV French, with Italian subtitles
Laure (Zoé Héran), a 10-year-old girl, has recently moved to a new district in Paris with her parents and younger sister, Jeanne. Half for fun and half to cope with the difficulties she suffers of integrating, she pretends to be a boy called Mickaël. But the school year is about to start and the game of disguises becomes complicated.
Céline Sciamma’s second feature film, Tomboy was a sensation in France with over 260,000 viewers and positive reviews from the critics. At once a gentle, serious, and cheerful film, it explores the complex theme of the search for sexual identity in the pre-adolescent phase of life with delicate sensitivity, avoiding all the clichés of films about childhood.
Winner of the Teddy Award at the 2011 Berlin Film Festival.
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