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Little Girl review – a tender film of Sasha’s struggle over gender – The Guardian
Sébastien Lifshitz’s lovely documentary follows a year in the life of seven-year-old Sasha
From the age of two and a half, Sasha has insisted shell grow up a girl. She was born in a boys body. In his tender observational documentary, film-maker Sébastien Lifshitzs (Les Invisibles, Bambi, Adolescentes) spends a year following seven-year-old Sasha and her family as they struggle to navigate her gender dysphoria in their provincial French home town. Cinematographer Paul Guilhaume captures Sasha in widescreen, his camera watchful as she pads delicately across the room in ballet class, gro…
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