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Amrita David is known for Saint Omer (2022), Girls Will Be Girls (2024) and Acrobat (2011).
Saint Omer is a 2022 French legal drama film written and directed by Alice Diop, and starring Kayije Kagame and Guslagie Malanda. It is Diop's first narrative feature. Her other films have been documentaries.
Amrita David, Girls Will Be Girls, Sundance 2024. Girls Will Be Girls, the feature debut from writer-director Shuchi Talati, follows a teenage girl named Mira (Preeti Panigrahi) as she navigates her sexual awakening while attending boarding school in the Himalayan mountains.
Sep 7, 2022 · Forged in the hypnotically absorbing, painterly long takes of Claire Mathon’s inscrutably calm camera, edited by Amrita David with an intimacy that feels at times like the slow thump of your...
Editor Amrita David, who also cut Alice Diop’s excellent 2022 film Saint Omer, discusses how her Indian heritage and editing intuition proved to be enormous boons to the film’s final form. See all responses to our annual Sundance editor questionnaire here.
Saint Omer takes off from this baffling contradiction, shining a sympathetic light on a woman too easily dismissed as a monster. Through the pained perspective of Rama, a successful novelist writing about the trial, we witness the reconstitution of Laurence as a subject for the Law.
Saint Omer. Bringing a documentarian’s sense of open-ended inquiry to her first narrative feature, writer-director Alice Diop constructs a morally and emotionally layered courtroom drama unlike any other.
