Tomboy is a 2011 French film directed by Céline Sciamma

Céline Sciamma

Céline Sciamma is a French screenwriter and film director.-Filmography:Director* 2007 : Water Lilies* 2009 : Pauline * 2011 : TomboyScreenwriter...

. It tells the story of a 10-year-old girl who, after moving to a new place, has all her new acquaintances believe she is a boy. The film opened to critical acclaim, with many critics praising the directing as well as the acting.

Plot

Laure (Zoé Héran), 10 years old, moves in to a new place one summer. When she introduces herself to her new neighbours, she claims to be a boy named Mickaël. The deception works, even to the point that one of her friends, Lisa (Jeanne Disson), falls in love with "Mickaël", until she gets into a fight to protect her little sister, and the truth is exposed. The film ends with the protagonist introducing herself to Lisa (as she did at the beginning), only this time as Laure.

Cast

• Zoé Héran as Laure
• Jeanne Disson as Lisa
• Malonn Lévana as Jeanne, Laure's sister
• Sophie Cattani as the mother
• Mathieu Demy
  Mathieu Demy
  Mathieu Demy is a French actor and director, born 15 October 1972 in Paris. He is the son of Agnès Varda and Jacques Demy.- Filmography :*1988 : Kung-Fu Master*1993 : À la belle étoile with Julie Gayet, Chiara Mastroianni...
  
   as the father

Awards

Tomboy won the Jury award at the 2011 Teddy Award

Teddy Award

The Teddy Award is an international film award for films with LGBT topics, presented by an independent jury as an official award of the Berlin International Film Festival . Here, an "independent jury" implies that its members are not officially selected by the committee of the Berlinale...

s, given for the best film with LGBT

LGBT

LGBT is an initialism that collectively refers to "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender" people. In use since the 1990s, the term "LGBT" is an adaptation of the initialism "LGB", which itself started replacing the phrase "gay community" beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, which many within the...

 themes at the Berlin film festival.

The film also collected the Golden Duke, the main prize of the official competition of the 2011 Odessa International Film Festival

2nd Odessa International Film Festival

The second Odessa International Film Festival took place in Odessa from the 15th to the 23rd of July, 2011.71 films were screened at the festival, and the total number of audience members was tallied at over 70 thousand...

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It also won the Audience Award at the 2011 San Francisco Frameline Gay & Lesbian Film Festival.

The 2011 Philadelphia QFest Lesbian and Gay Film Festival awarded the movie for Best feature Film.

The film also won the competition at the 2011 Torino Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.