Shot over a period of three years and as intimate and confessional as a teenage sleepover, this strikingly cinematic vérité documentary follows a group of adolescent girls poised between childhood and the adult world. Stumbling into life on unsteady colts’ legs, and finding their voices in a society that is still more interested in what they look like than what they have to say, we see young women blossom in the safe space that film-maker Jenny Gage has created in front of her camera. A wisp of a thing at 79 minutes, the film punches above its weight when it comes to quietly life-changing insights into the tricky business of growing up.
