Onassis Channel | Girlhood by Vania Turner and Maria Sidiropoulou
Three teenage girls find refuge in their friendship as they struggle with gender expectations, eating disorders, and an addiction to social media amid a long, emotionally stifling quarantine in Greece.
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“Girlhood” is an exemplary anatomy of a teenage girl’s psyche, revealing in a firsthand and absolutely non-didactic manner that the most dangerous form of sexism lays in the everyday and subtle details.”
Following its successful course in Greek and international film festivals and having earned significant awards and nominations, such as the 3rd Best Short Documentary Film award at the 15th Greek Documentary Festival – Docfest, “Girlhood” is having its digital premiere at the YouTube Onassis Channel. The film is a production of Onassis Culture.
Tough, responsible, and mature beyond her years, Christina shares a room with her brother, helps her mother with the housework, and yearns more than anything to gain her independence. Vera is insecure about her weight and longs for acceptance, while also yearning for a more inclusive world. And Nefeli discovers feminism and stops hanging out with boys, while she escaped through books and social media.
This coming-of-age story shows teenage girls trying to figure out how to love themselves as they transition from girls to women in a society that remains deeply patriarchal. Even as their faces are glued to a screen during quarantine, they find refuge in their friendship as they finish school and begin the road to adulthood.
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We wanted to capture how the pandemic’s isolation shaped the ups and downs of adolescence for three girls who come of age in a society that remains deeply patriarchal. We want to get people to think about the pervasiveness of everyday sexism; to show how subtle and harmful it can be, and its lasting impact on girls’ lives; to spark honest, necessary conversations about how girls and boys are raised.
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