Feature Film Selection/ Austria, 2024, Color, 105'
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Details
- Director: Ulrike Kofler
- Screenplay: Ulrike Kofler
- Editing: Bettina Böhler
- Cinematography: Robert Oberrainer
- Music: Wallners
- Producer: Alexander Glehr, Johanna Scherz
- Production: Film AG
- Cast: Emma Lotta Simmer, Marie-Luise Stockinger, Lion Thomas Tatzber, Nino Elijah Josef Tatzber, Gerti Drassl, Ursula Strauss, Michael Steinocher
- 2025 Austrian Film Award Best Supporting Actress, Best Makeup
- Festival Univerciné Allemand Audience Award
- i-Fest Film Festival Best Direction
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Recap
In a run-down apartment building on the city's outskirts, nine-year-old Gina cares for her younger brothers and her pregnant mother, Gitte. She dreams of transforming Gitte's on-and-off boyfriend into a real father and her grandmother into a loving presence. Facing hopelessness, neglect, and the scrutiny of the youth welfare office, Gina fights not only for the unborn baby in her mother's womb but also for a better life for herself.
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Director
Ulrike Kofler
Born in 1974 in Innsbruck, Austria, Ulrike Kofler is a film editor, director, and screenwriter. She graduated in photography from the Höhere Graphische Lehranstalt in Vienna. Afterwards, she studied film editing at the Film Academy Vienna. She completed postgraduate studies in Film and TV at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. Her graduation film, Wir Fliegen (2012), received several awards. She is also responsible for numerous video installations for theatrical performances. Her feature film debut, What We Wanted (2019), was selected as the Austrian entry for the 2021 Academy Awards. As an editor, she has worked on films by directors such as Josef Hader and Michael Kreihsl. She maintains a long-standing collaboration with Marie Kreutzer; most recently, she edited Kreutzer's historical drama Corsage (2022).
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