‘Water Lilies’ and the Journey of Identity - Movie Review
A gentle coming of age story, Water Lilies takes its time in exploring what it’s like to be a young girl trying to make sense of her sexuality in a heteronormative world.

A short comedy film set in the late 1980's following a teenage boy's unlikely summer after he is sent to a conversion therapy camp by his religious parents.
A gentle coming of age story, Water Lilies takes its time in exploring what it’s like to be a young girl trying to make sense of her sexuality in a heteronormative world.
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Gritty and bleak are the best words to describe this film. There’s nothing happy about it.