Kosara Mitić's debut feature "17" is a bleak Macedonian drama following Sara (Eva Kostić), a teenage girl navigating the aftermath of a violent sexual assault by two classmates while hiding a resulting pregnancy. The film opens with the traumatic incident itself before jumping forward several months to follow Sara over the first two days of a school trip to Greece, during which she is forced into close quarters with one of her assailants. The film matters as an unflinching examination of peer pressure, sexual shame and entitled masculinity within a teenage social circle, anchored by a widely praised central performance.

The film premiered in the Berlinale's Perspectives section before winning the Best Actress prize for Kostić at the Sarajevo Film Festival. Much of the story unfolds in a dimly lit stopover hotel in Bitola, where Sara is forced to share a room with her former best friend Nina, who is now dating Filip, one of Sara's attackers. The screenplay, written by Mitić with Ognjen Sviličić, explores a culture of silence and slut-shaming that pressures girls into submission while shielding boys from consequence, building towards a disturbing party scene. Critics note the film's visual and thematic similarities to another festival title, "La Gradiva", while praising Kostić's performance as the drama's emotional anchor, even as some of the film's grimness borders on excess.