Seventeen(HKLGFF 2017)

Official Selection - Berlin International Film Festival

Monja Art’s first feature film was awarded the Austrian Max Ophüls Prize. The summer holidays are not far off for Paula (Elisabeth Wabitsch) who is secretly in love with her best friend Charlotte (Anaelle Dézsy) but Charlotte already has a boyfriend. Paula thinks about her friend Charlotte often so to take her mind off things, she gets involved with a schoolmate, Tim (Alexandra Schmidt). Paula and her friends are just finding themselves as they are on the brink of adulthood, summer holidays and missed opportunities. Paula must decide if she wants to follow her own feelings or keep her feelings to herself in this rural small town of Austria.