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Seventeen

Monja Art
Set in rural Austria, in the final hot humid weeks before school breaks up for summer, Paula is very attracted to her classmate Charlotte, who is together with Michael. Meanwhile self-indulgent Lilly constantly provokes Paula to overstep the bounds.
Technical Data
Running time: 104
Format: digital
Screen ratio: 1:1.85
Language spoken: German
Production year: 2017
Credits
Director(s): Monja Art
Writer(s): Monja Art
Cinematography: Caroline Bobek
Editing: Monja Art, Claudia Linzer
Key cast: Elisabeth Wabitsch, Anaelle Dézsy, Alexandra Schmidt, Christopher Schärf
Producer: Ulrich Gehmacher
Premiere:
January 26, 2017
Saarbrücken (Competition)
Awards (selection): Carl Mayer Script Prize 2013, Max Ophüls Prize Best Film + Best Young Actress Elisabeth Wabitsch (Saarbrücken), Thomas Pluch Script Prize (ex aequo) , Audience Award Best Film (Konstanz/Queergestreift Filmfestival), Premio Cima for the best film directed by a woman (Valencia/Cinema Jove), DACHS-Script Prize 2017 for the best screenplay 2016/2017 from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and South Tyrol (ex  aequo)
Production company
Orbrock Filmproduktion
Gumpendorfer Straße 132
1060 Vienna
tel:+43 1 522 25 88
International Sales
Salzgeber & Co. Medien GmbH
Prinzessinnenstraße 29
10969 Berlin
tel:+49 30 285 290 90