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[Available Feb. 2 via streaming on MUBI.] When a shy, reserved teenager (Kosovare Krasniqi) hooks up with a free-spirited, rebellious classmate (Rozafa Cefaj), who is already sexually active with a couple of boys (Tristan Halilaj and Shend Miftari), in Norika Sefa's award-winning, coming-of-age, down-to-earth, well-written, 109-minute, 2021 film, she finds herself desperately trying to spread her wings while living with her strict, tradition-bound parents (Erjona Kakeli and Basri Lushtaku), grandmother (Fatushe Nushi), and two brothers in a cramped, stifling, multigenerational household in the small, boring, rundown village in Kosovo.
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