Tomboy

Name: Tomboy
Genre: Social Issues, Drama
Released: 2011
Duration: 82 min
Cast: Zoé Héran, Malonn Lévana, Jeanne Disson, Sophie Cattani, Mathieu Demy

Céline Sciamma20111h 22mSocial Issues, Drama

Why we chose it

Conservatives called for strikes, but more than 46,000 French pupils still watched it at school. Before she made “Portrait of a Lady on Fire”, Céline Sciamma told the story of a ten-year-old girl who moves to a new neighbourhood and introduces herself to the kids there as a boy.

Synopsis

When a ten-year-old girl moves to the Paris suburbs with her parents and little sister, she sets out to make friends with the only girl in a gang of boys. Seeing the short hair, the clothes and the way she carries herself, the girl takes her for a boy. That will make things easier, so she introduces herself to the rest of the gang as a boy as well.