This month, the IFI Youth Panel has selected Sofia Coppola’s 1999 debut film, The Virgin Suicides. Centring around the lives of the beautiful and wonderfully mysterious Lisbon sisters, their stories are told by a group of lustful onlooking boys. The Virgin Suicides is an exploration of Girlhood, born from Coppola’s desire to talk about femininity and to see “a quality art film made for young people”.

With a star studded cast (including Kirsten Dunst, Josh Harnett, and Danny DeVito) and an iconic soundtrack, this film’s mark can still be felt 25 years later.

Following the screening, the Youth Panel will have a book club discussion on Jeffrey Eugenides’s 1993 novel the film is based on. Copies of the book are available from the IFI Film Shop.

Tickets: €5.00 with 22 & Under card – see more at ifi.ie/22under