Screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz makes her directing debut adapting Deborah Levy’s novel about the prison of a strained mother-daughter relationship.

When Emma Mackey met Vicky Krieps, she couldn’t help but blush. The two actors play love interests Sofia and Ingrid in “Hot Milk,” Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s feature directorial debut that premieres at Berlin Film Festival on Friday,

Sex Education star Emma Mackey has described starring in Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s Hot Milk as a “baptism of fire.” The movie premiered at the Berlin Film Festival today and is the debut directing project for She Said scribe Lenkiewicz.

British director Rebecca Lenkiewicz and her 'Hot Milk' cast are ready to make a splash at the Berlin Film Festival.

Berlin: For all the sun-stroked lesbian malaise and burnt-up emotions of the past, Rebecca Lenkiewicz's directorial debut lacks sizzle.

The feature directing debut from screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz, who has adapted Deborah Levy’s 2016 novel, Hot Milk lacks some of the lush, heady symbolism of the book, and opts for a less teasingly ambiguous approach to the storytelling.