SCHOOLGIRLS

LAS NIÑAS

By Pilar PALOMERO

SPAFAX UK - as BUYER REP

Drama - Completed 2020

SCHOOLGIRLS is a delicate coming-of-age drama set in the contradictory Spain of the 90s. A story of a confused generation of young women delivered by first-time director Pilar Palomero and by the producers of critically acclaimed Summer 1993.

Festivals
& Awards

Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2020
Generation
San Sebastian FF 2020
Made in Spain
Ventana Sur 2020
European Screenings
Festival de Málaga 2020
Official Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2020
    • Genres
    • Drama, Female director
    • Countries
    • SPAIN
    • Languages
    • SPANISH
    • Duration
    • 97 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Pilar PALOMERO
    • Writer(s)
    • Pilar PALOMERO
    • Producer(s)
    • Valérie DELPIERRE (INICIA FILMS), Álex LAFUENTE (BTEAM PICTURES)
    • Synopsis
    • Schoolgirls is the story of Celia, an 11-year-old girl who studies at a nuns’ school in 1992. Celia is a good girl; she is a responsible student and a considerate daughter. The arrival of a new classmate will open a little window through which Celia will discover a whole new world.

      Together with her new friend and some older girls, Celia will enter a new stage in life: adolescence, the stage of first-times. Her body needs to experiment, try new things, and stop being a little girl, even if that entails confronting her mother and everything that meant comfort and security.