THE BEARDED GIRL

description

The story of a bearded girl who is tired of being a freak.

On the brink of inheriting the position of "The Bearded Woman" – matriarchal leader to an outcast community of circus performers – a young woman defies her overbearing mother and runs away instead. Free from the expectations and responsibilities at home, she seeks romance and adventure with the normies in a tiny farm town. In order to fit in, she reinvents herself with stories of a fabricated past, until the truth of who she is can no longer be concealed.

OFFICIAL SELECTION
Fantasia International Film Festival 2025
Fantaspoa 2026

DIRECTOR'S BIO
Born in Alberta, Jody Wilson is an award winning director, writer and producer with a background in VFX and screenplay development. She focuses on the intersection of surrealism, grit and emotional truth, resulting in work that carries a tactile, grounded visual sensibility and an instinct for the unsettling, centering characters in rupture while exploring class, power, and identity. Her debut short film as a director, INDIGO, won multiple awards and screened at over 16 international festivals in the 2016/2017 circuit. THE BEARDED GIRL is their debut feature film.