Still from A Girl Unknown

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A Girl Unknown

Zou Jing

Jing Zou’s captivating debut feature, an intimate, decade-spanning character study, explores the consequences of the single-child policy on generations of Chinese girls.
Runtime
128 min
Country
China-France
Language
Mandarin Chinese
Year
2026
More information
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Screenings

Taken away from her mother and the lush countryside to the city and an unknown family, six-year-old Wu Lian has to adapt quickly. Unfolding over a decade, with a camera always at her young protagonist’s eyeline, A Girl Unknown is a richly textured coming-of-age drama, pulsating with raw energy as it questions notions of identity, belonging and the trauma of abandonment.

Laure Bonville

Content warning

Contains scenes of self-harm and suicide.