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Section: Austrian Trip
Seventeen (2017)
As school is drawing to a close and the summer holidays approach, boarding school pupil Paula is secretly in love with her friend Charlotte. But Charlotte’s going out with Michael. Lovelorn, Paula decides to try and take her mind of things by getting involved with schoolmate Tim, whose feelings for her are at least genuine. Paula has no idea how often Charlotte thinks of her. And then there’s Lilli, who is just dying for someone to fancy her and tries to play the wild seductress. Paula must decide if she wants to follow her own feelings or yield to other people’s.
| Country | Austria |
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| Year | 2017 |
| Duration | 105 min |
| Rating | 15 |
| Language | German |
| Subtitle | Czech, English |
| Directed by | Monja Art |
| Screenplay | Monja Art |
| Director of Photography | Caroline Bobek |
| Music | Hjalti Bager-Jonathansson |
| Edited by | Monja Art, Claudia Linzer |
| Contact | Salzgeber & Co Medien GmbH |
Biography
Film director and screenwriter. She studied screenwriting and dramaturgy at the University of Vienna and the Vienna Film Academy. After the short film Juli (2012), she co-directed the adventure film Forever Not Alone (2013). She made her independent debut with the drama Seventeen (Siebzehn, 2017).
Friendship, Love, School, Growing Up, Empathy, Gender, Sexuality + Identity, LGBTQ