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How To Have Sex?

How To Have Sex

Original name: How To Have Sex?
English name: How To Have Sex?
Year: 2023
Run time: 98 Min
Language: English
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Colour
Country: UK
Director: Molly Manning Walker
Producers: Ivana Mackinnon, Emily Leo, Konstantinos Kontovrakis
cast: Mia McKenna-Bruce, Lara Peake, Shaun Thomas, Samuel Bottomley, Enva Lewis, Laura Ambler
Screenplay: Molly Manning Walker
Cinematographer: Nicolas Canniccioni
Editor: Fin Oates
Sound Designer: Steven Fanagan, Nikos Konstantinos
Music Composer: James Jacob
Production Company: Wild Swim, Heretic
World Sales: Pictureworks

Festivals:

  • Cannes: Un Certain Regard Winner 2023
  • BFI London 2023
  • Toronto IFF 2023
  • Sundance FF 2024
  • Busan IFF 2023

Director’s Selected Filmography:

  • 2020 Good Thanks, You? (Short)

Director's Biography:

 Molly Manning Walker

Molly Manning Walker originally trained as a Cinematographer. She graduated from the National Film and Television School, UK with an MA in Cinematography. Her graduation film, November 1st, took Bronze at the Student Academy awards and was long-listed for a BAFTA among other festivals it was in competition at Camerimage. Molly’s directing debut was the short film Good Thanks, You? premiered at Semaine De la critique Cannes and went on to play at many festivals. How To Have Sex? is her debut feature film as a director. The film won the top prize in Un Certain Regard section.

Synopsis:

It’s supposed to be the best summer ever. Tara, Skye and Em touch down on the Greek party resort of Malia for the vacation to end all vacations, the girls trip every British teenager ticks off at the cusp of adulthood. Tara, the last remaining virgin, is on a mission to change that: and her best friends are causing chaos right alongside her. The 16-year-old drinks and dances her way through the strip – with all its messy bars and grimy nightclubs – until she meets a couple of boys on the neighbouring hotel balcony who she hopes might give her a summer to remember.