Little Girl
With this tender, unsensational exploration of hot-button trans and gender issues, French documentarian Sébastien Lifshitz paints a deeply compassionate portrait of 7-year-old Sasha, who was assigned male at birth but identifies as a girl. Maintaining a discreet and nonjudgmental tone, Lifshitz gets revealingly close to his subject and her family, meticulously recording her meetings with medical professionals, her challenges at school, and the conflicted emotions of her loving parents. Clothed in ravishing widescreen cinematography, LITTLE GIRL (PETITE FILLE) couches a heartwarming story in richly hued, lyrical visuals.
Sasha
- Notes From Lukas DhontSébastien proves time and time again that he is one of the most humanist filmmakers working today. LITTLE GIRL shows so elegantly how a norm to some is an alien concept to another. It is about finding home in our bodies, about protecting the truest form of ourselves, even if it comes with sacrifice. A maestro of the moving image.
