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Summer 1900, in a valley in southern Switzerland. Elisabeth, 17, is about to take her vows when the sudden death of her older sister forces her to leave the convent and return to the family farm she had left five years earlier. But Elisabeth is no longer a child. Stifled by the suffocating and strict rules of the village and obsessed by the mysteries surrounding her sister’s disappearance, she will fight for her right to experiment.
Carmen Jaquier
Born in Geneva, Switzerland, Carmen Jaquier studied graphic design, before making her first short films Eat Me! (2004) and entering the Cantonal School of Art in Lausanne. Her graduation film The Girls’ Grave received the Pardino d’argento at the Locarno Film Festival (2011). She then explored image and editing within the Aamen collective. She also worked as director of photography on few movies. Thunder is her first feature film.
