Schoolgirls

Schoolgirls

2020 · 97 min · ★ 6.6 · Drama

In early 1990s Spain, eleven-year-old Celia lives with her mother and studies at a convent school in Zaragoza. When Brisa, a confident new classmate from Barcelona, arrives, Celia is drawn into a world that challenges the strict religious teachings and sheltered life she has known. Their friendship pushes her to confront hidden truths at home and the uncertainties of adolescence, leading her to explore questions of identity, independence, and belonging.

Directed by Pilar Palomero · Written by Pilar Palomero

Your Rating

Where to Watch

Rent or Buy

Cast

Make it a double feature

2h 57m together

Schoolgirls

Chaco

Both from Pilar Palomero.

More from Pilar PalomeroSee all →

Private Lessons

Private Lessons · 2005

Private Lessons

Chaco

In 1934, Bolivia is at war with Paraguay. Liborio and Ticona and other Bolivian indigenous soldiers are lost in the hell of the Chaco, under the commandment of German Captain Kundt. They're looking for the Paraguayan enemy that they haven't seen for months, and that they will never find. They leave together in a search that will make them realize, progressively, the destiny they have been pushed into and the inevitable condition of a defeated troop. They're walking like shadows, wandering forever in the middle of dust and silence.

Motherhood

Motherhood · 2022

At the age of 14, Carla is a wild and rebellious teenager. Living in a modest restaurant on the outskirts of a town with her young single mother, she skips school and passes the time with her friend Efraín. When a social worker realizes that Carla is five months pregnant, she is taken to ‘La Maternal’, a center for teenage mothers, to live with other young women like herself. Together with their babies, they will learn to cope with this new adult life for which they had no time to prepare.

Glimmers

Glimmers · 2024

Isabel's life is turned upside down the day her daughter Madalen asks her to visit her sick ex-husband Ramón on a regular basis.

Vota Juan

Vota Juan · 2019

Juan Carrasco is a nondescript Minister of Agriculture who must recognize that he has greater political ambitions due to a series of fortuitous political events, so he decides to run in the primary elections of his party, which may give him the opportunity to opt for the disputed position of President of the Spanish Government.

The Night of All Things

The Night of All Things · 2016

The Night of All Things

Joana, seven years old, waits for her mother to recover from an illness. She wiles away the hours in her grandfather’s warehouse of antiques.

Unicorns

Unicorns · 2023

Isa is a feminist, bisexual, and polyamorous posh girl, she passionately defends her life. When Guillem proposes to be a monogamous couple, Isa is not sure if he wants to change her life and, given her lack of decision, Guillem decides to break the relationship. Living in a world of appearances and comforts, her contradictions come to light and her universe is crumbling at the blow of likes and moral judgments in this web that social networks have become.

Letters from the Ends of the World

Letters from the Ends of the World · 2021

Letters from the Ends of the World

MovieDocumentary

A world in lock-down. As a global pandemic unfolds, 13 international filmmakers pen cinematic letters from their places of isolation, whether home or far from home. A work of accidental science-fiction from the Bistrik7 collective, graduates of Béla Tarr's Sarajevo film.factory.

While We Were Here

While We Were Here · 2021

While We Were Here

Briefly depicted fragments from the characters' lives, through summer and winter, as each of them suffers a loss. Cinematic meditation on inevitable loss.

Horta

MovieDocumentary

Horta is the experimentation of the passage of time in oneself and the honest expression of a loss.

Winter Sun

Winter Sun · 2017

Nana, a 80-year-old lady, needs a surgery. She and her husband, Dedo, had to leave their home in the small village of Hrsa and move temporarilly to Sarajevo in order to wait for the operation.

Agenda 1958 (With Notes From 1960 and 65)

Agenda 1958 (With Notes From 1960 and 65) · 2019

Agenda 1958 (With Notes From 1960 and 65)

MovieDocumentary

A woman and her mother spend the Summer in their family’s little village. The woman finds her grandmother’s 1958 agenda and discovers some of her deepest and secret feelings. Along with her mother she tries to understand what happened to her grandmother, and what she has in common with her. A film about joy and sadness, but moreover, a film about a mother’s love and devotion.

More Like This

American Beauty

American Beauty · 1999

American Beauty

Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.

Dancer in the Dark

Dancer in the Dark · 2000

Dancer in the Dark

MovieDramaCrime

Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation. When life gets too difficult, Selma learns to cope through her love of musicals, dreaming up little numbers to the rhythmic beats of her surroundings.

8 Mile

MovieDramaMusic

For Jimmy Smith, Jr., life is a daily fight just to keep hope alive. Feeding his dreams in Detroit's vibrant music scene, Jimmy wages an extraordinary personal struggle to find his own voice - and earn a place in a world where rhymes rule, legends are born and every moment… is another chance.

Billy Elliot

Billy Elliot · 2000

MovieDramaComedy

County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles upon a ballet class and finds out that he's naturally talented. He practices with his teacher Mrs. Wilkinson for an upcoming audition in Newcastle-upon Tyne for the royal Ballet school in London.

Maria Full of Grace

Maria Full of Grace · 2004

Maria Full of Grace

MovieDramaThriller

A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her family.

7 Virgins

7 Virgins · 2005

MovieDramaCrime

It is summertime in a blue-collar, marginal district of a city in the South of Spain. Tano, a teenager currently serving a sentence in a juvenile reform center, is given a 48-hour leave to attend his brother’s wedding.

Wingwomen

Wingwomen · 2023

MovieActionComedy

Tired of life on the run, a pro thief decides to retire — but not before one easy last job with her partner in crime and a feisty new getaway driver.

I Got Life!

I Got Life! · 2017

MovieDramaComedy

Aurore has separated, just lost her job, and learns that she is going to be a grandmother.

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days · 2007

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

Two college roommates have 24 hours to make the ultimate choice as they finalize arrangements for a black market abortion.

Persepolis

Persepolis · 2007

MovieAnimationDrama

In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own.

Rate this film

Your ratings make Midnight smarter