How To Have Sex

Director: Molly Manning Walker

How To Have Sex

UK-Greece, 2023, 98‘

Director: Molly Manning Walker

Cast: Mia Mckenna-Bruce (Tara), Lara Peake (Skye), Samuel Bottomley (Paddy), Shaun Thomas (Badger), Enva Lewis (Em), Laura Ambler (Paige)

Selected Awards

Cannes 2023 – Un Certain Regard Award (Molly Manning Walker); EFA 2023 - European Discovery – Prix Fipresci (Molly Manning Walker); BIFA 2023 – Best Lead Performance (Mia McKenna-Bruce), Best Supporting Performance (Shaun Thomas); Stockholm 2023 – Best Director (Molly Manning Walker), Best Directorial Debut (Molly Manning Walker); BAFTA 2024 – nominations for Outstanding British Film of the Year, Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director, or Producer (Molly Manning Walker), Best Casting (Isabella Odoffin)

 

 

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 neighboring hotel balcony who she hopes might give her a summer to remember.

Making her debut feature with a vibrant, compassionate look at sex, friendship, consent and the sweet smell of a boozy sunburned summer holiday, director and cinematographer Molly Manning Walker (Scrapper, Good Thanks, You?) paints an exhilarating, moving, and painfully familiar portrait of young adulthood.