Seventeen

Over the course of a single day three urban Indigenous peoples' lives intersect in the city of Vancouver through chance, relation and the shared experience of familial and colonial displacement.

Canada | 2026 | Fiction | 88 minutes | English, Cree

Director: Justin Ducharme (Métis)

Justin Ducharme is a Métis writer and filmmaker from St. Ambroise (Treaty 1). An alumnus of the Sundance Native Lab and TIFF’s Filmmaker Lab, he co-edited Hustling Verse (Arsenal Pulp Press). His writing appears in Canadian Art, Room, and Prism International. He lives on unceded Coast Salish Territory (Vancouver).

Producers:

  • Justin Ducharme

  • Tyler Hagan (Métis)

  • Olivia Marie Golosky (Métis)

Domestic Rights:
Vortex Media 

Contact:

Olivia Marie Golosky
olivia@experimentalforest.ca

  • Over the course of a day, three Indigenous sex workers intersect through the shared experience of displacement. Aidan, a hustler, experiences the city's housing crisis head-on. Tamara, a nomadic sex worker, is spending six month stints on a traveller’s visa with the goal of making it home, she’s ashamed to discover she has less than a day to get back to the USA or face deportation. December, a beloved and hard working community girl, conceals a recent loss and spends her day helping Tamara. These three become linked, experiencing life and loss as urban Indigenous people just trying to survive.

    Experimental Forest Films

  • “Being an experiential sex worker myself, my storytelling has aimed to capture the power that occurs within the intersections of Indigenous sexual sovereignty and chosen family relations, Seventeen is an extension of these thoughts and I can’t wait to share it with audiences.”

    Justin Ducharme (Director)