Tournées Festival – Bande de filles (Girlhood)

Set in the impoverished French-African banlieues of Paris, sixteen-year-old Marieme cares for her two sisters while their mother works the night shift.  She falls in with a triad of tough girls, abandoning her braids for straightened hair, her hoodie for a leather jacket – while learning the pleasures of raising hell.

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All films are Free and Open to the Public.

Movies are in French with English Subtitles.

The Tournées Festival is sponsored by the Department of Romance Studies in collaboration with The Center for European Studies and the Department of Asian Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill.