Adolescent girls learn to confront the sexual power wielded by men in these coming-of-age snapshots, both set in tough economic circumstances and observed with a sharply sympathetic directorial eye.
Directed by Annie Silverstein • 2014 • United States
Raised by a single mother on an isolated subdivision in rural Texas, fourteen-year-old Leila's deepest connection is with her pack of rescued dogs. On a hot summer morning, she wakes to find that her beloved pit bull Bubba has eviscerated a sk...
Directed by Andrea Arnold • 2009 • United Kingdom
Starring Katie Jarvis, Michael Fassbender, Kierston Wareing
British director Andrea Arnold won the Cannes Jury Prize for the intense and invigorating FISH TANK, about a fifteen-year-old girl, Mia (electrifying newcomer Katie Jarvis), who lives wi...