Two teenage girls navigate the complexities of the adult world in these heartrending, stylistically kindred portraits of young women forced to grow up too soon. In her short film NEEDLE, winner of the Cinéfondation award at Cannes, director Anahita Ghazvinizadeh creates a compellingly inscrutable young heroine for whom a rite of passage—getting her ears pierced—becomes an emotional minefield due to the ongoing power struggle between her parents. It is paired with a work Ghazvinizadeh cites as an inspiration, Robert Bresson’s MOUCHETTE, one of the most spiritually shattering films of all time, which similarly uses nonprofessional actors and a masterfully stripped-down visual style to portray the indignities that life visits upon an unfortunate French girl.