The Girl and the Spider (German: Das Mädchen und die Spinne) is a Swiss drama film, directed by Ramon Zürcher and Silvan Zürcher and released in 2021.
[2] The film premiered in the Encounters program at the 2021 Berlin Film Festival,[3] where the Zürchers won the award for Best Director in the program alongside Denis Côté for Social Hygiene (Hygiène sociale).
[4] It had its North American premiere at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival.
The critics consensus reads: "Beneath its deceptively placid surface, The Girl and the Spider grapples with deeply meaningful questions of personal identity in the face of fundamental change.
"[6] On Metacritic, the film holds a weighted average score of 83 out of 100, based on 11 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".