Schoolgirls | |
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Spanish | Las niñas |
Directed by | Pilar Palomero |
Written by | Pilar Palomero |
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Starring |
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Cinematography | Daniela Cajías |
Edited by | Sofia Escudé |
Music by | Carlos Naya |
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Distributed by | BTeam Pictures |
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Running time | 97 minutes |
Country | Spain |
Language | Spanish |
Budget | €1.2 million |
Box office | €0.6 million |
Schoolgirls (also known as The Girls; Spanish: Las niñas) is a 2020 Spanish coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Pilar Palomero, starring Andrea Fandos and Natalia de Molina. [1] [2] [3]
The film won the Goya Award for Best Film, along with Best New Director and Best Original Screenplay for Palomero, and Best Cinematography for Daniela Cajías, from a total of nine nominations, at the 35th Goya Awards. [4] [5] [6] Cajías became the first woman to win the Cinematography Goya. [7] At the 8th Feroz Awards, the film won Best Drama Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay from a total of six nominations.
Celia, an 11-year-old girl, studies at a nuns' school in Zaragoza in 1992. Celia is a good girl: a responsible student and a considerate daughter. The arrival of a new classmate opens a small window through which Celia discovers a whole new world. Together with her new friend and some older girls, Celia enters a new stage of her life: adolescence, a period of firsts. She feels the need to experiment, try new things, and stop being a little girl, even if that entails confronting her mother and everything that once meant comfort and security.
The film is an Inicia Films ( Valérie Delpierre) and BTeam Prods (Alex Lafuente) production, with the participation of RTVE, TVC, Televisión de Aragón, and Movistar+, and backing from ICAA and ICEC. [8] [9] It boasted a €1.2 million budget. [8]
The film premiered in the 'Generation K Plus' section of the 70th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2020. [10] Its festival run also included screenings at the Brussels International Film Festival (winning the Jury Prize in Directors' Week), [11] and the 23rd Málaga Film Festival (winning the Golden Biznaga). [12] Distributed by BTeam Pictures, [9] Schoolgirls was released theatrically in Spain on 4 September 2020.
Schoolgirls holds a 90% approval rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes based on 10 reviews, with an average rating of 8.1/10. [13] [14]
Awards | Category | Nominated | Result |
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Forqué Awards [15] [16] | Best Fiction Picture | Won | |
Best Actress | Andrea Fandos | Nominated | |
Cinema and Education in Values | Nominated | ||
Feroz Awards | Best Drama Film | Won | |
Best Trailer | Nominated | ||
Best Director | Pilar Palomero | Won | |
Best Screenplay | Won | ||
Best Actress | Andrea Fandos | Nominated | |
Best Supporting Actress | Natalia de Molina | Nominated | |
Goya Awards | Best Film | Won | |
Best New Director | Pilar Palomero | Won | |
Best Original Screenplay | Won | ||
Best Supporting Actress | Natalia de Molina | Nominated | |
Best Cinematography | Daniela Cajías | Won | |
Best Editing | Sofia Escudé | Nominated | |
Best Art Direction | Mónica Bernuy | Nominated | |
Best Costume Design | Arantxa Ezquerro | Nominated | |
Best Original Song | "Lunas de papel" by Carlos Naya | Nominated | |
Ariel Awards [17] [18] | Best Ibero-American Film | Nominated | |
Platino Awards [19] | Best Ibero-American Film | Nominated | |
Best Ibero-American Debut Film | Pilar Palomero | Won | |
Best Screenplay | Nominated | ||
Best Cinematography | Daniela Cajías | Nominated | |
Best Editing | Sofia Escudé | Nominated | |
Best Art Direction | Mónica Bernuy | Nominated |