Petite fille

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Movie
German title Petite fille (Little girl)
Original title Petite fille
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 2020
length 85 minutes
Rod
Director Sébastien Lifshitz
script Sébastien Lifshitz
production Muriel Meynard
camera Paul Guilhaume
cut Pauline Gaillard

Petite fille is a documentary film under the direction of Sébastien Lifshitz . The film premiered on February 22, 2020 the Berlin world premiere in the section Panorama documents . The international title is Little Girl .

content

Petite fille is the portrait of seven year old Sasha and her family. Sasha has to wear boys' clothes at school, but she has been certain that she will be a girl since childhood. In interviews with parents it becomes clear that they take their daughter's identity seriously and work tirelessly for her to be recognized in their small-town environment. Outside of the family, however, Sasha encounters some negative reactions from a society that still thinks in a biological boy-girl pattern. Sasha does not dare to invite other children to her home for fear that they might not accept their identity as girls.

With the help of a doctor who specializes in children's gender identities, the parents convince Sasha's headmaster to let Sasha attend school as a girl from the next school year. This is a milestone for Sasha. For the first time, she invites a friend from school and shows her her children's room. The children in Sasha's class, as well as Sasha's three siblings, accept her without difficulty. The management of the ballet school behaves differently, which does not allow Sasha to take part in her beloved ballet lessons as a girl. Sasha's mother comments that it is probably not asking too much of adults to show the same acceptance as children.

production

Sébastien Lifshitz was responsible for the conception of the film and also directed it. He accompanied Sasha for a year. The camera was mainly directed by Paul Guilhaume, partly also by Celine Bozon .

The production company was Agat & Cie and the Danish company Fine Cut For Real . The film was made with the support of ARTE France .

reception

Cineuropa praised the film as moving and instructive on the subject of gender dysphoria and particularly praised the work of the cameraman Paul Guilhaume. Boyd van Hoeij in the Hollywood Reporter called Lifshitz a masterful documentary filmmaker. He compared Petite fille with Lifshitz's earlier films and noted that his work had gained both lightness and depth.

Awards

At the Berlinale 2020, Petite fille was nominated for the Berlinale Documentary Film Prize and the Teddy Award . At Panorama Audience Award in the category Panorama documents the film was 3rd.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Petite Fille . In: berlinale.de (accessed on February 11, 2020).
  2. ↑ Petite fille (2020) - IMDb. Retrieved February 10, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Petite fille on the website of the film distributor m2k , accessed on February 23, 2020.
  4. ↑ a b c Fabien Lemercier: Critique: Petite fille (French); Little Girl '(' Petite fille '): Film Review (English). In: Cineuropa. February 22, 2020, accessed February 23, 2020.
  5. ↑ ARTE with 31 co-productions at the 70th Berlinale. In: ARTE press. February 19, 2020, accessed February 23, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Boyd van Hoeij: 'Little Girl' ('Petite fille'): Film Review | Berlin 2020. In: The Hollywood Reporter . February 22, 2020, accessed on February 23, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Berlinale Documentary Film Prize - donated by the rbb. In: berlinale.de. February 10, 2020, accessed February 5, 2020 .
  8. ^ Teddy Award - The official queer award at the Berlin International Film Festival. Retrieved February 10, 2020 .
  9. ↑ The Panorama Audience Awards go to Otac (Father) and Welcome to Chechnya. In: berlinale.de. February 29, 2020, accessed February 29, 2020 .