Sinopsis
Marian leaves the city behind and retires to the old house she inherited from her grandmother. The nearest town is ten kilometres away, there is no electricity or hot water. Sometimes, submitting to a catastrophe is the only way to make a new start.
Elisabeth Sharang lives and works in Vienna as a director, screenwriter, journalist and radio presenter. She is self-taught in her profession and has been working as a freelance feature and documentary film director since 2001, mainly for cinema productions. The cinema documentary OCTOPUS ALARM celebrated its world premiere at the 2005 Berlin Film Festival and is still one of the most relevant documentaries on the subject of intersexuality. MY DEAR REPUBLIC was successfully screened in competition in the documentary section in Karlovy Vary; it reopens a piece of Austrian contemporary history through the cinematic encounter with Nazi euthanasia survivor Friedrich Zawrel. After IN ANOTHER LIFETIME, in 2015 JACK was the director‘s second feature film to celebrate its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival on the Grande Piazza; it was shown shortly afterwards at the Toronto Film Festival. Filming for the feature film WALD, loosely based on Doris Knecht‘s bestseller, took place in autumn 2021. Elisabeth Scharang is currently working on a documentary film about structural violence against women and the reasons for femicides. For #HowToStopFemicides she is shooting in over ten countries, featuring activists and experts.
Elisabeth Scharang is active in film politics at FC-Gloria and in the collective dieRegisseur*innen and supports women in the field of film directing and screenwriting as a mentor.
Director: Elisabeth Sharang (Austria)
Genre: Fiction
Country of production: Austria
Year of production: 2023
Running Time: 100’
Language: German with Spanish subtitles
Cast: Brigitte Hobmeier, Gerti Drassl, Johannes Krisch, Bogdan Dumitrache
Production: Michael Katz & Veit Heiduschka
Scriptwriters: Elisabeth Sharang
Cinematographer: Jörg Widmer
Production company: Austrian Film Institute
International Sales: Picture Tree International
Selected at the festivals of Zürich, Toronto, San Francisco, SIFF (Gales), Seattle.
Premiere in Spain
