Plot
Having just enrolled at a university in Oslo against her stern parents' will, the sheltered Biology freshman and devout Christian, Thelma, leaves for the first time the isolated Norwegian countryside, to start a new life away from home. Tangibly lonely, a casual conversation and one unexpected friendship with the beautiful fellow student, Anja, will broaden Thelma's hazy horizons; however, as the glacially alluring misfit wrestles with an onslaught of novel feelings, little by little, an unprecedented psychosomatic manifestation of repressed emotions start to take over. Indeed, a mystery cloaks soft-spoken Thelma's past, and the more she struggles to renounce her nebulous desire, the more violent becomes her quivering awakening. Can Thelma unearth a denied truth behind the stinging temptation?
Written by
Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier
Directed by
Joachim Trier
Crew
Production Countries
Denmark, France, Norway, Sweden
Production Companies
Motlys, Le Pacte, Norsk Filminstitutt, Film i Väst, Snowglobe, Nordisk Film & TV Fond, Filmpool Nord, Don't Look Now, Copenhagen Film Fund, Eurimages, B-Reel Films
Languages
svenska, Norsk
Awards
16 wins & 47 nominations total