Girl

About Girl

A promising teenage dancer enrolls at a prestigious ballet school while grappling with her gender dysphoria.

Lukas Dhont's Girl is a 2018 drama film. Its themes are LGBT teen, teenage protagonist, ballet dancer, and trans woman.

Victor Polster takes the lead as Lara, Arieh Worthalter as Mathias, Oliver Bodart as Milo, and Tijmen Govaerts as Lewis. It runs 105 minutes and was released in September 2018.

The screenplay is by Angelo Tijssens and Lukas Dhont. Production companies include Frakas Productions and Menuet. In the United States it streams on Netflix and Netflix Standard with Ads.

Billy Elliot, The Half of It, and Summer of 85 make useful companions to Girl, all filed under ballet school and LGBT. TMDB voters put it at 7.1 out of 10 across 782 votes and it carries a R rating.