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Big Girls Don’t Cry
During one transformative summer in rural Aotearoa, fourteen-year-old Sid explores desire, identity and the emerging online world while imitating the older teenagers whose love and acceptance she desperately wants.
Director
Paloma Schneideman (Gate Crash)
CAST
Ani Palmer • Rain Spencer • Noah Taylor • Tara Canton • Beatrix Rain Wolfe
RATING
VA
Sexual material, sexual violence, drug use and offensive language
RUNTIME
1h 39m
COUNTRY
Aotearoa/NZ
GENRE
Drama, Coming-of-age, LGBTQ+
LANGUAGE
English
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FILM NOTES
A tender, sunlit portrait of adolescence, longing and the complicated search for belonging.
Set in a coastal Aotearoa town during the summer of 2006, Paloma Schneideman’s debut follows fourteen-year-old Sid Bookman through a season of restless reinvention. Drawn towards an older crowd, she experiments with friendship, desire and the newly expanding world of MSN and internet chatrooms. Executive-produced by Jane Campion, the film premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival.
Ani Palmer gives Sid a vivid mixture of bravado, vulnerability and curiosity, while the sunlit beach setting holds both freedom and danger. Schneideman’s naturalistic approach captures adolescence without smoothing away its confusion, shame or intensity. Tender, candid and quietly transporting, this distinctly local coming-of-age drama invites audiences to remember how fiercely we once longed to be seen.
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Big Girls Don’t Cry
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