Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective
Left-Handed Girl
2025 drama film From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Remove ads
Left-Handed Girl (Chinese: 左撇子女孩) is a 2025 internationally co-produced drama film, written, directed and produced by Shih-Ching Tsou. It stars Janel Tsai, Shih-Yuan Ma, Nina Ye, Brando Huang, Akio Chen and Xin-Yan Chao. Sean Baker serves as co-writer, producer, and editor.
The film had its world premiere at the Critics' Week section of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. It is scheduled to be released in the United States in a limited release on November 14, 2025, before streaming on Netflix on November 28, 2025.
Remove ads
Cast
- Janel Tsai
- Shih-Yuan Ma
- Nina Ye
- Brando Huang
- Akio Chen
- Xin-Yan Chao
Production
In November 2012, Sean Baker revealed the project, with Shih-Ching Tsou set to direct, however, the film was facing difficulty to secure financing.[2]
Principal photography began in July 2022.[3] By February 2025, the film was nearing the end of post-production.[4] The film was shot using an iPhone.[5]
Release
Left-Handed Girl had its world premiere at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival in the Critics' Week section where it won the Gan Foundation Award for Distribution.[6][7] In May 2025, Netflix acquired rights to the film for the world excluding the Baltics, the Benelux, Greece, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, France, Japan, South Korea, Spain, Scandinavia, Poland and Taiwan.[8] It is scheduled to be released in the United States in a limited release on November 14, 2025, before streaming on Netflix on November 28, 2025.[9]
Reception
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 95% of 19 critics' reviews are positive.[10]
References
External links
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads