The Diary of a Teenage Girl

Set in 1970s San Francisco, the film follows Minnie Goetze, a fifteen-year-old aspiring cartoonist who begins a sexual relationship with Monroe, her mother's boyfriend. Narrating her own experience through tape-recorded diary entries and animated drawings, she moves through first desire, secrecy and a growing sense of herself as an artist.

The film is a close study of an adolescent girl's interior life, tracking how desire, idealisation and the search for identity shape a self still in formation, and how an exploitative relationship is lived from the inside rather than judged from without. It offers a therapist a rare first-person account of adolescent sexuality and self-authorship. Selected for competition at Sundance in 2015, it is adapted from the graphic novel The Diary of a Teenage Girl by Phoebe Gloeckner.