MEDIUM LENGTH FILM
Austria, 2018, 39min
director: Jürgen Karasek
Status: distribution
national Premiere: Diagonale 2018, internat. Premiere: Hofer Filmtage 2018
Winner: Thomas-Pluch-Screenplay Award for short and middle-length films
Logline:
14-year-old MAX goes with his father WOLFGANG (45) and his friends on a camping trip in the woods. The two haven´t seen each other since the separation of the parents a few months ago and experience a weekend of rapprochement with beer, men´s talk and masculinity rites. Soon, however, the actual idyll of the trip becomes more and more frightening and the renewed bond between Max and Wolfgang is put to the test.
Cast: Enzo Gaier, David Oberkogler, Max Meyr, Peter Karolyi, Christian Spatzek, Simone Fuith, Anna Rot
idea & director: Jürgen Karasek
screenplay: Timothy Bidwell
doP: Roman Chalupnik (aac)
editing: Claudia Linzer
sound: Benedikt Palier, Ines Vorreiter
set design: Marie Wildmann
script advisor / artistic advisor: Andrina Mračnikar
producers: Jürgen Karasek, Stephan Podest, Filip Antoni Malinowski
Shooting Format: ARRI Alexa
funded by: Stadt Wien Kultur, Stadt Graz Kulturamt
Awards & Nominations
Winner: Thomas Pluch-Screenplay-Award for best short or medium-length film, Diagonale 2018
Nomination for: Grand Off World Independent Short Film Awards, Beste Picture: Roman Chalupnik
Nomination for: The Big Shorts – the best 10 medium-length-films of 2018 in the german-speaking countries
Festivals (14):
Diagonale Filmestival, Graz 2018
Hofer Filmtage, Hof (GER) 2018
Trujillo Ind. Filmfestival, Trujillo (PER) 2018
FilmZ Festival of German Cinema, Mainz (GER) 2018
Sierra Int. Filmweekend, Santa Cruz de la Sierra (BOL) 2018
Blue Danube Filmfestival, Vienna 2018
Grand Off World Independent Film Awards, Warszaw (POL) 2018
Chhatrapati Shivaji Internat. Filmfestival, Pune (IND) 2018
Int. Filmfestival of Sriganganagar, Sriganganagar (IND) 2019
Rapidlon – The South African Filmfestival, Johannisburg (SA) 2019
Austrian Filmfestival, Vienna 2019
Swindon Independent Filmfestival, Swindon (GB) 2019
Global India Int. Filmfestival, Pune (IND) 2019
Festival Cinema du Monde Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke (CAN) 2019
