LITTLE GIRL // PETITE FILLE

Director:  Sébastien Lifshitz

Sasha is an eight-year-old French girl who loves ballet, playing with her siblings and trying out her colorful dresses. But according to her social number, Sasha is not a girl but a boy. Directed by Sébastien Lifshitz.



CONTACT

DENMARK
Final Cut for Real – Producer Monica Hellström
monica@final-cut.dk - +45 26270275

PRESS & PUBLICITY:
MK2

WORLD SALES
MK2

AWARDS


FESTIVALS

Berlinale 2020, Germany - 3d place of the Panorama Audience award for Best Documentary Film

Gent Film Festival, Belgium - Grand Prix for Best Film

Chicago International Film Festival, USA - Silver Hugo award

Osnabrück FilmFest, Germany - Award for Children’s Rights

Seville European Film Festival, Spain - New Waves-Non Fiction Best Film Award (Ex Aequo) + Ocaña Award (LGBTQI Film Award)

Saint Petersburg Side by Side LGBT International Film Festival, Russia - Best Documentary Award

BIG - Bari International Gender Film Festival, Italy - Best Feature Film

Festival du Film et Forum International sur les Droits Humains, Genève, Switzerland - Prix du Jury Artopie, Meilleur Film

Ljubljana Documentary Film Festival, Slovenia - Main Prize, Human Rights competition

Seattle International Film Festival, USA - Grand Jury Award + the FIPRESCI Award, Official competition

Festival Imagésanté, Belgium - Prix de la santé mentale positive, International competition

Budapest International Documentary Film Festival, Hungary - Main Award in the section Empire of Love & Senior Jury Award, International competition

Zinegoak, Bilbao International LGTB Film Festival, Spain - Honorary Award for Sébastien Lifshitz's career

Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival, Canada - Audience award for Best Documentary Feature

Festival In & Out (Nice & Cannes), France - Audience Award

Inconvenient Films, International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Lithuania - Audience Award

Everybody's Perfect, Geneva International Queer Film Festival, Switzerland - Perfect Award from the audience

MixBrasil Festival of Diversity, Brazil - Audience award for best international film

RIDM Montréal, Canada - People's Choice Award, Devenir soi-même

Rendez Vous with French Cinema, New-York USA - Audience Award

CPH:DOX 2020, Denmark

Istanbul Film Festival, Turkey

Endinburgh International film Festival, UK

Kyiv International Film Festival Molodist, Ukraine

Zurich Film Festival, Switzerland

Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival, Poland

Seoul International Women's Film Festival, South Korea

Queer Lisboa - International Queer Film Festival, Portugal

One International Women's Film Festival, China

Hong Kong International Film Festival

Luststreifen Film Festival Basel, Switzerland

Bogota International Film Festival, Colombia

Vladivostok International Film Festival PACIFIC MERIDIAN, Russia

SILBERSALZ International Science, Film and Media Festival, Germany

Queerfimfest Rostock, Germany

FIFF Tübingen Stuttgart, Germany

Tokyo International Film Festival, Japan

Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Greece

Queer Film Festival Mezipatra, Czech Republic

Free Zone Film Festival, Serbia

PinkPanorama FF, Switzerland

Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Germany

European Film Festival of Segovia, Spain

Filmmaker Festival in Milan, Italy

AFI European Union Film Showcase, USA

Jerusalem Film Festival, Israel

Cine Doc, Switzerland

International Film Festival of India, Goa, India

Ciné Fierté, Canada

Panorama of the European Film, Egypt

Spring Film Festival - Network of Festivals in the Adriatic Region, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro

Screenwave International Film Festival, Australia

Sacramento French Film Festival, FRENCH FILM FRIDAY SERIES, USA

International Human Rights Film Festival, Argentina

Lovers FF - Torino LGBTQ Film Festival, Italy



PRODUCTION FACTS

Duration: 86 min
Release: Berlin Film Festival 2020
Language: French, uk subs

Director Sébastien Lifshitz
Producer Muriel Meynard
Co-producer Monica Hellström

Supported by

ARTE
CNC
Danish Film Institute
DR

Danish premiere - cph:dox 2020