17 Panorama
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Seventeen-year-old Sara has a big secret to hide as she embarks on a school trip. Already contending with hurtful rumours circulating among her classmates, spread by two boys with a particular interest in tarnishing her reputation, things come to a head when Sara witnesses the sexual assault of her best friend. As her own secret becomes impossible to hide, Sara is forced her to make some life-altering decisions.
Following in the footsteps of Andrea Arnold’s raw social-realist cinema, rising Macedonian director Kosara Mitić plunges the viewer headfirst into Sara’s world — beginning with a skin-crawling opening scene that sets in motion a chain of gut-wrenching events — and newcomer Eva Kostić is in pure primal mode as an adolescent girl whose boundaries have been severely transgressed. This is a bold feature debut that shines a light on the most volatile corners of the teenage experience.
Content Considerations: Sexual violence, bullying
Seventeen-year-old Sara has a big secret to hide as she embarks on a school trip. Already contending with hurtful rumours circulating among her classmates, spread by two boys with a particular interest in tarnishing her reputation, things come to a head when Sara witnesses the sexual assault of her best friend. As her own secret becomes impossible to hide, Sara is forced her to make some life-altering decisions.
Following in the footsteps of Andrea Arnold’s raw social-realist cinema, rising Macedonian director Kosara Mitić plunges the viewer headfirst into Sara’s world — beginning with a skin-crawling opening scene that sets in motion a chain of gut-wrenching events — and newcomer Eva Kostić is in pure primal mode as an adolescent girl whose boundaries have been severely transgressed. This is a bold feature debut that shines a light on the most volatile corners of the teenage experience.
Content Considerations: Sexual violence, bullying
