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HOW TO HAVE SEX

Year 2023
Runtime 98 mins
Language English
Alberta Premiere

Three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage Greek holiday, drinking, clubbing and hooking up in what should be the best summer of their lives. As they dance their way across the sun-drenched streets of Malia, they find themselves navigating the complexities of sex, consent and self-discovery.

Captured with luminous visuals and a pitch-perfect soundtrack, Manning Walker’s daring directorial debut paints a painfully familiar portrait of young adulthood, and how first sexual experiences should – or shouldn’t – play out. This assured first feature earned her the Un Certain Regard Award at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.

Content Warning: themes of sexual violence; strobe effects.

Countries

United Kingdom
Festivals
Cannes Film Festival, Jerusalem Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival
Director
Molly Manning Walker
Executive Producer
Farhana Bhula, Fionnuala Jamieson , Ben Coren
Producer
Emily Leo, Ivana Mackinnon, Konstantinos Kontovrakis
Screenwriter
Molly Manning Walker
Cinematographer
Nicolas Canniccioni
Editor
Fin Oates
Music
James Jacob
Cast
Mia Mckenna-Bruce, Lara Peake, Shaun Thomas, Samuel Bottomley, Daisy Jelley