Thelma

Thelma, a young and shy student, has just left her very devout parents' home, on Norway's west coast, to study at Oslo University. At the university, she feels irresistibly and secretly drawn to the very beautiful Anja. Everything seems to be going well but one day at the library she has an extremely violent epileptic fit. Little by little, Thelma feels submerged by the intensity of her feelings for Anja, which she dare not admit - even to herself, and is prey to increasingly frequent fits. It soon becomes obvious that these attacks are in fact the symptoms of supernatural and dangerous faculties. Thelma is then confronted by her past, weighed down by the tragic implications of her powers.

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  • queer

Actors

  • Eili Harboe
  • Marte Magnusdotter Solem
  • Anders Mossling
  • Henrik Rafaelsen
  • Vanessa Borgli
  • Ellen Dorrit Petersen
  • Kaya Wilkins
  • Grethe Eltervåg

Director

  • Joachim Trier

Drama, Queer


1h 56min


-10

NN


FR

NL

Norway
2017
Thelma leaves home to go and study in Oslo. There she discovers that she is in communication with supernatural forces.

Thelma leaves home to go and study in Oslo. There she discovers that she is in communication with supernatural forces.


Thelma, a young and shy student, has just left her very devout parents' home, on Norway's west coast, to study at Oslo University. At the university, she feels irresistibly and secretly drawn to the very beautiful Anja. Everything seems to be going well but one day at the library she has an extremely violent epileptic fit. Little by little, Thelma feels submerged by the intensity of her feelings for Anja, which she dare not admit - even to herself, and is prey to increasingly frequent fits. It soon becomes obvious that these attacks are in fact the symptoms of supernatural and dangerous faculties. Thelma is then confronted by her past, weighed down by the tragic implications of her powers.

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