Inbetween Girl -

At its core, Inbetween Girl is an effectively-layered bildungsroman. It moves beyond typical teen movie tropes by taking the "messiness of growing up" seriously. Angie’s journey is defined by several shifting roles:

: Caught in the fallout of her parents' divorce, Angie feels disconnected from her busy mother and alienated by her father’s new life and girlfriend. Inbetween Girl

The title Inbetween Girl reflects Angie’s biracial identity and the feeling of never fully fitting into any one category. This liminality is a central theme: she is navigating her Chinese heritage while living in a predominantly white, religious school environment. The film avoids "flattening" these complex emotions, instead building "gradients of nuance" into a period of life often experienced as an emotional apocalypse. At its core, Inbetween Girl is an effectively-layered