French Touch: Girls of Summer

Feeling smothered by both the stifling heat and their parents, these young women long for a dip in the enticing pool of adulthood. An anthology of award-winning French Shorts.

Blind Sex dir. Sarah Santamaria-Mertens

At the end of the summer holiday, Louise, blind since birth, is smothered between her mother and her sister. After getting lost in the forest, a chance encounter on a naturist campsite will upset her habits.

Family Dancing (Bal de famille) dir. Stella Di Tocco

Today, Julie is strong. She is independent. She can go home. All her family are waiting, they love her: her mother, her brother, her sister and her father.

Summer of Sarah (Belle gueule) dir. Emma Benestan

It is summer, in the South. Everyday, Sarah, aged sixteen, sells doughnuts with her father on the beach. One evening she meets Baptiste.

Dirty South dir. Olivier Strauss

In the dog days of summer, two sisters and their mother move into a concrete tower surrounded by farmland as far as the eye can see. Twelve-year-old Violette innocently concentrates her budding desires on Franklin, while Isa, her older sister, staves off her sadness with short-lived romances.