Bangla Surf Girls

Never have the stakes and the waves been so high

8.2

|2021|86 min

Three working-class teenage girls in a port city in Bangladesh escape daily hardships and stifling family lives by riding waves on their surfboards and grabbing hold of the fleeting and thrilling sense of freedom that brings.

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