Paris-based sales company Luxbox has swooped on feature debutant Shuchi Talati’s “Girls Will Be Girls” and will represent the film at Berlin’s upcoming European Film Market (EFM).The film is set in an elite boarding school in a small Himalayan hill town in northern India and follows the story of Mira, a 16-year-old girl whose sexy, rebellious awakening is hijacked by her mother who never got to come-of-age.“Girls Will Be Girls” is an Indo-French official coproduction between India’s Pushing Buttons Studios and Crawling Angel Films and France’s Dolce Vita Films (2019 Venice and Cairo winner “A Son”).
Pushing Buttons is an outfit founded by Indian actors Ali Fazal (“Death on the Nile”) and Richa Chadha (“Gangs of Wasseypur”).
Sanjay Gulati’s Crawling Angel has credits including 2020 Berlinale selection “The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs.” Dolce Vita is headed by Claire Chassagne and Marc Irmer.Malayalam cinema
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