GIRLS

Three pubescent girls on the edge of Moscow. The hand camera follows them around throughout their days, restlessly, directly, but with great care, while they hang out in the stairwell, in the park, at the riverside; while they sing, dance, kiss boys, smoke, drink and har-bour doubts; while they fight and while they take drugs. Basically while they do everything that girls did during the first decade of our new century. Valeriya Gai Germanika’s intimate portrait, completely absent of any moralising or passing of judgement, was the first true foil to the Soviet educational narrative – GIRLS represents a break-through to an entirely different kind of cinema.