A devastating look at life on the streets in the Cape Flats, focusing on Kashiefa and her friends. She has hustled, done time in a reformatory, and witnessed and fallen prey to the brutality of a place where gangsters, guns, mandrax and rape are endemic. Now she is pregnant and desperately wants to turn her life around—and finally gets a shot at it. Unsentimental, expertly shot and creatively executed, Girlhood lifts the lid on the bleak realities facing many teenagers in South Africa’s urban slums.

We welcome Tracey Collis, who will introduce her film.