In 1953 New York, with a violent post-war culture controlled by men, a group of headstrong teenage girls form a secret female-only society, “Foxfire.” The gang sets out on a trip of vengeance to fulfil the impossible dream of living by their own rules and laws, no matter what happens.

We’re kicking off our Laurent Cantet double bill with his only film set in the U.S. Based on Joyce Carol Oates’s novel about a rebellious gang of teenage girls determined to fight the codes of patriarchy and authority, Foxfire is an exhilarating, fist-pumping look at the fight for justice.