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Raval, Pista Aurora
29/6 9 pm
French Institute
8/7 8.30 pm
Cinema Girona
9/7 10.30 pm
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Title
Appropriate Behavior
Directors
Desiree Akhavan
Country
USA




Cast
Desiree Akhavan, Rebecca Henderson, Scott Adsit, Halley Feiffer, Anh Duong, Arian Moayed, Robyn Rikoon, Aimee Mullins, Daniella Rabbani
Production
Parkville Pictures
Distribution
The Film Collaborative
Genre
Drama
Duration
86'
Year
2014
Festivals
Sundance, Independent Spirit Awards (Santa Monica, Best First Screenplay), San Diego (Asian Cinema, Grand Jury Prize), Frameline (LGBT, San Francisco), Outfest (LGBT, Los Angeles), Sidney, Hong Kong (LGBT), Paris, (LGBT), Queer Lisboa (LGBT), Mix Copenhagen (LGBT), London, Stockholm, Istanbul, Hawaii
First showing in
Barcelona
OFFICIAL SECTION: FEATURE FILMS
Appropriate Behavior
Appropriate Behavior is becoming the film that all festivals want to show. Full of life, deep, dynamic and immensely entertaining, this is the first film from Desiree Akhavan, who wrote the screenplay herself, as well as playing the lead role and directing. Steering clear of over-dramatisation, the intimate, personal story examines the confusion of a Persian girl who feels completely integrated into modern Brooklyn. A girl neither too Persian nor too gay, too hetero or too anything; a girl who just wants to be free and find herself.

This is a veritable jewel in the crown of American indie cinema in which, on this occasion, the focus is on the female emotions and the complex processes of falling in love, breaking up, getting over the heartbreak and finding reconciliation. Appropriate Behavior is undoubtedly one of the freshest, most authentic films on the festival programme this year.