Join Film Forum, AAWW, and New York Women in Film (NYWIFT) for a screening of the award-winning Girls Will Be Girls! Film Forum will also host two conversations with the film’s director, Shuchi Talati, on Friday, September 13th, and Saturday, September 14th. The conversations will be moderated by filmmaker Shruti Ganguly.

Please note, this is a ticketed screening! For more information on how to purchase discounted tickets, see below.

A model student, 16-year-old Mira (Preeti Panigrahi in a radiant debut performance) is the first-ever female prefect in charge of enforcing rules at a straitlaced Indian boarding school in the Himalayas. Despite her ambition and primness, she can’t help but fall for new student Sri (Kesav Binoy Kiron), and steals away with him to flirt and stargaze. With frankness and sensitivity, writer-director Shuchi Talati uncovers the contradictory layers of Mira’s sexual awakening, the complicated feelings triggered in her protective, unfulfilled mother, and the school’s lax penalties for boys’ transgressive behavior. Winner of two prizes at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival: the World Cinema Drama Audience Award and a Special Jury Award for Acting for Panigrahi.

Film Forum has generously offered our community members a discount for up to two regular admission tickets to all screenings of the film! To receive the discount:

• Go to https://filmforum.org/film/girls-will-be-girls
• Scroll to your desired screening(s) and click PURCHASE
• In the top right corner of the screen, click PROMO CODE
• Enter code AAWWSEPT, then click submit
• Select 1 or 2 General $17.00 tickets (Note: you may purchase multiple tickets, but discount will apply only to the first 2)
• Click Add to Cart – the discount will be applied at checkout