17

by Kosara Mitić

17, 2025, fiction, co-production, digital DCP, c, 90 min
In progress

MK, SI, RS

Sara (17) goes on a school trip with her classmates. She is eight months pregnant, but even her parents do not know about it. The baby in her womb is like a bomb no one is aware of. The bus stops at the border, Sara gets labor pains, gives birth in the public toilet, leaves the baby in the trash, and gets back on the bus as if nothing had happened.

screenwriters
Kosara Mitić, Ognjen Sviličić
director
Kosara Mitić
producer
Tomi Salkovski
co-producers
Vlado Bulajić, Lija Pogačnik, Miroslav Mogorović
director of photography
Naum Doksevski
film editor
Dejan Smileski
costume designer
Žaklina Krstevska
key make-up artist
Karla Lazić
sound designer
Julij Zornik

production
Black Cat Production
co-production
December, Art and Popcorn
co-funding
North Macedonia Film Agency, Slovenian Film Centre, Film Center Serbia

December
Lija Pogačnik
lija@decemberfilm.si
Vlado Bulajić
vlado@decemberfilm.si

Kosara Mitić was born in 1987, in Skopje. Graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic arts in Skopje at the Film and TV Directing Department in 2013. In the period from 2006 until present she has gained experience in directing, script writing, camera, editing, working with actors, and has realized several film projects.

Production company December, founded in 2013 by Vlado Bulajić and Lija Pogačnik, has consistently demonstrated its ability to produce innovative and critically acclaimed projects. Their journey started with three short films, one of which won over 25 international awards, laying the foundation for our first two feature films, both released in 2021. “Inventory” by Darko Sinko premiered at the San Sebastián International Film Festival, and “Bitch, A Derogatory Term for a Woman” by Tijana Zinajić premiered at the Valencia Film Festival. In 2022, they released their first documentary “2017” by Goran Vojnović, followed by “The Last Cowboy” by Tadej Čater, which premiered at the Sarajevo Film Festival in 2024. Among international co-productions are the Croatian “The Diary of Diana B” (2019) by Dana Budisavljević, “Safe Place” (2022) by Juraj Lerotić and “Dražen” (2024) by Danilo Šerbedžija, as well as the Serbian feature “Mother Mara” (2024) by Mirjana Karanović.