The Hill Where Lionesses Roar (2021)

Original title

La Colline où rugissent les lionnes

Directed by

Luàna Bajrami

Genre

drama film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

Kosovo, France

Runtime

1h 23m

Rated

16

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 16 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Three teenage girls in a small town in Kosovo form a gang and commit petty crimes. They are waiting for the chance to leave for university and escape their stagnant lives.

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What happens

The Hill Where Lionesses Roar (French: La colline où rugissent les lionnes; Albanian: Luaneshat e kodrës) is a drama film, directed by Luàna Bajrami and released in 2021. A coproduction of companies from France and Kosovo, the film centres on Qe (Flaka Latifi), Jeta (Urate Shabani) and Li (Era Balaj), three teenage girls in Kosovo who form a gang and engage in petty crime as they impatiently await their opportunity to go away to university and escape the boredom of their smalltown life. An excerpt from the film was screened in the Work in Progress section of the Les Arcs Film Festival in 2019. The film premiered in the Directors' Fortnight program at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, where it was a nominee for the Queer Palm. It had its North American premiere at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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