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Girls Lost (2015)

Girls Lost poster
Original title
Pojkarna
Directed by
Alexandra-Therese Keining
Genre
drama film, LGBTQ-related film
Country
Sweden, Finland
Runtime
1h 46m
Rated
NR
Rating
5.7 of 10 from 35 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Three teenage girls discover a flower that temporarily transforms them into boys. They use this power to explore new perspectives on gender and desire.

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What happens

Girls Lost (Swedish: Pojkarna) is a 2015 Swedish drama film directed by Alexandra-Therese Keining. It's based on the August Prize-winning novel Pojkarna (literary The Boys) by Jessica Schiefauer. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. The film draws on elements of magical realism to explore notions of fluid sexuality and identity. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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