EXTRA GEOGRAPHY

Despite their young age, they treat life as something to be meticulously planned and managed. Their ambitions for the future are sky-high. The two are so close they are almost joined at the hip, having achieved a kind of symbiosis their classmates – and plenty of other people – might envy.

The one thing they know next to nothing about is love. The subject comes into focus with the approaching premiere of a Shakespeare play in which they are both due to perform. The girls decide they ought to fall in love, but, true to form, they leave nothing to chance. Instinct and emotion take a back seat to analysis. Determined to get to grips with the subject, they pore over literary romances and study the behaviour of people who are, or have been, in love. They even come up with a method for choosing the object of their affections.

That is how Miss Delavigne (Alice Englert), a teacher in her thirties, catches their attention, entirely unaware that she has become the subject of her pupils’ experiment. The situation soon begins to test Minna and Flic’s friendship.

Based on the prose of Rose Tremain and directed by Molly Manners in her feature debut, EXTRA GEOGRAPHY (2026) is an original, darkly funny coming-of-age film that pits the girls’ cool, academic way of thinking against the chaos of desire and jealousy. Reality clashes with expectations, and it becomes clear that maturing is more than just checking off a box. It is a bitter lesson – and quite possibly the hardest one Minna and Flic will ever have to learn.

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Text: Rafał Glapiak