Girls State | Official Trailer (2024) - video Dailymotion

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What would American democracy look like in the hands of teenage girls? In this documentary, young female leaders from wildly different backgrounds in Missouri navigate an immersive experiment to build a government from the ground up.

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00:00 [CHANTING]

00:02 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:04 [CHANTING]

00:06 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:08 [CHANTING]

00:10 There's something in the air, and it's politics.

00:14 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:16 Girl State is like high school teenage girls

00:18 who care about government.

00:20 Are you friends?

00:21 No.

00:22 We'll become friends.

00:23 Yeah, obviously.

00:24 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:26 In 2040, I intend to run for president.

00:28 So I think Girl State, I'm going to run for governor.

00:30 Attorney general.

00:31 Supreme Court justice.

00:33 Who's this?

00:34 OK.

00:35 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:36 We're never going to get the opportunity

00:38 to talk to people from different parts of Missouri

00:40 the way that we are right now.

00:42 I am a very social person.

00:44 I will talk to a wall.

00:46 Often when women start talking politics, we get shut down.

00:51 But I'm not one to be left on the desk.

00:56 We all have, in our own different ways,

01:00 grown up in a world where we've never seen a female president.

01:04 But how do we change that?

01:07 We step up.

01:09 This is where it all begins.

01:12 We all work very hard on the image of ourselves

01:16 that we want to show to the world.

01:18 It's exhausting.

01:21 I know it's a lot of pressure.

01:22 I can see it.

01:23 I'm that same person.

01:24 So breathe.

01:25 [MUSIC PLAYING]

01:28 Good luck.

01:29 I'll ask you too.

01:31 We are all Americans, and we all want the best for this country.

01:35 Standing in front of this crowd of future leaders,

01:37 I can say that God can save the world.

01:39 Women will save America.

01:42 [MUSIC PLAYING]

01:45 (upbeat music)

01:47 (electronic music)

Girls State | Official Trailer (2024)

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