Seventeen (2026)
Set over the course of seventeen hours, the lives of three young, queer, Indigenous sex workers intersect through chance, relation, and the shared experience of familial and colonial displacement.
- Date of release
- 2026-09-14
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Justin Ducharme
Casting
- Aalayna
- Nizhonniya Austin
- Taio Gélinas
- Kaniehtiio Horn
- Joel Oulette
- Shannon Baker
- Renae Morriseau
- Ray G. Thunderchild
- Mathias Retamal
- Ta'kaiya Blaney
- Lyndsay Pomerantz — Sasha
Interesting facts
- Filmed in: Vancouver
Seventeen is a Canadian drama film, directed by Justin Ducharme and slated for release in 2026. The film centres on December (Aalayna), Tamara and Aiden, three Indigenous Canadian sex workers in Vancouver, British Columbia, whose paths intersect.
Production
Ducharme wrote the first draft of the screenplay in 2018, with it taking further shape after he participated in the imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival's screenwriting lap program in 2019-20. Ducharme later staged a public reading of the screenplay at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2024.
Casting and production were announced in May 2025, with filming taking place in Vancouver.
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