Tomboy
– A French family with two daughters, 10-year-old Laure and 6-year-old Jeanne, moves to a new neighbor..
A French family with two daughters, 10-year-old Laure and 6-year-old Jeanne, moves to a new neighborhood during the summer holidays. With her tomboy ways, Laure is immediately mistaken for a boy by the local kids and passes herself off as Mickaël.
20 Apr 2011
French
Céline Sciamma
Céline Sciamma (screenplay)
Zoé Héran, Malonn Lévana, Jeanne Disson, Sophie Cattani
A family moves into a new neighborhood, and a 10-year-old named Laure deliberately presents as a boy named Mikhael to the neighborhood children. It is heavily implied that Mikhael is a closeted transgender boy. This film follows his experiences with his newfound friends, his potential love interest, Lisa, his younger sister and his parents. It focuses in on the significance of gender identity in social interaction from an early age, the difficulties of being transgender and young, and how Mikhael navigates these in the background of childhood play and love.
7 wins & 5 nominations.
$100,000
Dada Films