INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME
WHY NOT YOU (Hochwald)
DIRECTOR: Evi Romen
COUNTRY: Austria, Belgium
YEAR / DURATION: 2020 • 107’
GENRE: drama
CROATIAN PREMIERE
AWARDS: Golden Eye Award of the Focus Competition (Zurich), Carl Mayer screenplay award
Info
- SCREENPLAY: Evi Romen
- CINEMATOGRAPHY: Martin Gschlacht, Jerzy Palacz
- ACTORS: Thomas Prenn, Noah Saavedra, Josef Mohamed, Elisabeth Kanettis, Ursula Scribano-Ofner, Claudia Kottal, Raffaela O’Neill
- EDITOR: Karina Ressler
- SCORE: Florian Horwath
- PRODUCERS: Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu, Bady Minck
- PRODUCTION COMPANY: Amour Fou Vienna
- SALES AGENT: True Colours
- FESTIVALS: Festival of Austrian Film Diagonale, Graz (best movie), Zürich Film Festival (Best Feature Film in the Fokus Section), Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Viennale International Film Festival
Trailer
Synopsis
A troubled young dancer Mario from a small town in South Tirol faces additional disapproval from his surroundings when Lenz, his best friend and upright young man, is killed in a terrorist attack on a gay club. Mario feels the people of the town silently resent him for surviving, and Lenz dying. During one of his walks, Mario meets Nadim, who distributes Korans to passers-by. Unexpectedly, it is in Nadim that Mario finds the much needed support to overcome his drug addition and not abandon his dream of dancing.
About the director
Evi Romen (Bolzano, 1967) studied editing and camera at the Vienna Film Academy, and has been working as an editor and screenwriter for around 20 years. She has received several awards for her work – Diagonale Award for Best Editing for My Best Enemy (2011) and the Austrian Film Award for Casanova Variations (2014). Why Not You is her directorial debut.
Screening
- Kaštel – 18.07
21:30
- Kino Valli – 19.07
17:00
