Girl

Lara is a 15-year-old girl, born in the body of a boy, who dreams of becoming a ballerina.

One of the many standout films at this year’s Sundance Film Festival was Adura Onashile’s feature debut Girl. The film follows the mother-daughter unit Grace and Ama as they try to adapt to life in Scotland after escaping unspeakable violence in their native Republic of the Congo.

With the support of her loving father, Lara, (Victor Polster) a transgender teenager, pursues her dream of becoming a professional ballerina. Assigned male at birth, Lara has to overcome more than blistered, bloody feet to realize her dream, and leads a painful trajectory, full of frustrations, as she struggles to come to terms with her more complex journey to womanhood.