Girls Will Be Girls

Girls Will Be Girls (2024) is a coming-of-age drama you can watch online on iFILM. Set in a strict boarding school tucked into the Himalayan foothills of northern India, it follows 16-year-old Mira, a model student and head prefect used to controlling everything around her.

Then desire arrives, and her careful world tilts. Her first romance and first taste of rebellion get tangled up with her own mother (Kani Kusruti), a woman who never quite got to have a girlhood of her own. What grows between them is a quiet, uneasy rivalry over the same boy.

Writer-director Shuchi Talati's first feature took the Audience Award at Sundance and treats teenage longing with honesty instead of shame or scandal. It is small, hushed and watchful — best for viewers who love intimate dramas about mothers, daughters and first love. Stream Girls Will Be Girls online on iFILM.