Girls State
One nation. Under girls.
Documentaryaffectationbitingdemocracysocial documentaryquestioningmeditativevexedusa politicscandidgrimthoughtfulunassuming
A thoughtful, intimate documentary that uses a political experiment with teenage girls to interrogate democracy, identity, and power with both earnest hope and clear-eyed skepticism.
What would American democracy look like in the hands of teenage girls? In this documentary, young female leaders from wildly different backgrounds in Missouri navigate an immersive experiment to build a government from the ground up.
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