With SMALLTOWN GIRL, director Hille Norden establishes herself as a rising star in the world of young German cinema. With its radical stylistic approach, her autobiographical film links the realities of young people's lives today with timeless questions about trauma that echo through the generations. Her film creates spaces for remembrance that only great cinema can achieve with such unflinching honesty and sensitive precision. A thrilling cinematic journey that dares to go where it hurts.

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Followed by a discussion with director and screenwriter Hille Norden.