100 min.
Ella and her class are getting close to highschool graduation. And she carries around more than her fair share of teenage angst. Her girlfriends seem to skate through young life with more carefree ease than she does, while Ella’s days are packed with school stress, side jobs she is late for and babysitting. Her pressures are compounded by the kind of single-parent family life struggling just to get by anyway. Two steps forward, one step back. Music and her clever feminist band Virginia Wolfpack are sometimes the only thing keeping her spirits up and her aspirations alive. Virginia Wolfpack rides this wave of inspiration and healthy rebellion further by entering a newcomer band competition. Ella is determined to win first prize and convince her mother that music can be a choice for a life. Pseudo gangster rapper AlfaMK enters the stage. His real name is Leon and Ella knows him and his very wealthy family from a housekeeping job she and her mom share. There are immediately tensions – and a link – between the two. Ella trades a hookline for his guitar she desperately needs for Virginia Wolfpack’s performance, but she doesn’t know what she really bargained for in the end. Soon her biggest dream she fought for with every inch of her being is on the brink of complete failure. Then help rises from where she would have never expected it…
Universally relatable themes of teenage angst we all experienced in one way or another clothed in the equally universal Rock&Roll rebellion film with a snappy young feminist twist. The pace of the film mirrors this. True to all sides of the emotionally rocky road of this time in life, FEATURING ELLA is a feel-good film with plenty of humor, rhythm and light sides to resolve envies, competition and coming to terms with the world.