"Mentored through Jane Campion's film program A Wave In The Ocean, writer-director Paloma Schneideman's " Big Girls Don't Cry" is a wry and intimate queer coming-of-age tale filled with as much desire as it has rebellion. Set in the summer of 2006, the film centers on Sid (Ani Palmer, in a wonderfully layered and subtle debut performance), an angsty youngster as she navigates that uneasy space between childhood and what lies beyond."
"You'll cringe with painful recognition as Sid tries on different identities as she interacts with different people, like piercing her own belly button to impress the vapid hot girls she desperately wants to think she's cool. Or trying pot for the first time with Freya (Rain Spencer, always a breath of fresh air), an exchange student from America who already knows Sid is cool. While she tests the boundaries of youthful recklessness, Sid also pushes away her older sister, her childhood best friend."
Three World Dramatic Competition premieres at Sundance focus on teens navigating difficult emotional and social transitions. Big Girls Don't Cry follows 14-year-old Sid in mid-2000s New Zealand as she explores queer desire, experiments with identity and rebels against family and peers. Hold Onto Me centers on 11-year-old Iris from Cyprus attempting to reconnect with her estranged father. Tell Me Everything features 12-year-old Israeli Boaz in the early AIDS-era 1980s discovering a life-altering secret about his father. Big Girls Don't Cry was mentored through Jane Campion's A Wave In The Ocean program and features Ani Palmer in a layered debut performance.
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