Big Girl in Berlin

Kris Holden-Ried and Samantha Weinstein star in the short film Big Girl, written and directed by Renuka Jeyapalan during her stay at the Canadian Film Centre last year. The short will screen at the Berlin International Film Festival, which unspools February 9-19. The bittersweet comedy-drama, about a young girl who gives her mother’s new boyfriend a hard time, won the $10,000 Bravo!FACT award for best Canuck short at TIFF.