«I am a Flatbush girl», first - time feature director Eliza Hittman said proudly at the world premiere
of It Felt Like Love in the Next section (it later went to
Competition in Rotterdam), and, while not entirely autobiographical, the film draws from her experience
of growing up in this largely working - class neighbourhood
of New York City's most populous borough,
of these
endless summers where you have to escape to the
sea with your friends for fear
of melting like the asphalt under your feet.