ED AWARD for Central European short film
Land of Mountains
6. 9. 2024
10:00
Ještěrka
original title
Land der Berge
directed by
Olga Kosanović
produced by
Deniz Cooper (April April)
year
2023
duration
28 minutes
country
Germany, Austria
language
German with English and Czech subtitles
Synopsis
An insurance scam and the left thumb of the single father Vladimir find themselves in a low-key tragedy about the kafkaesque barriers of the Austrian immigration law.
The film has won many awards, including Best Short Film at the Trieste Film Festival 2024, Best Medium Length Film and Audience Award for Medium Length Film at the Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival, or the Social Responsibility Award at Vienna Shorts 2023.
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Olga Kosanović, born 1995 in Austria, is a director and cinematographer living in Vienna. In 2020 she completed her film studies at the HFBK Hamburg in the class of Angela Schanelec. Her short films have screened at numerous international festivals, in 2021 she was awarded the 3Sat Young Filmmakers Award at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival and the Austrian Film Award 2022 for her film Comrade Tito, I Inherit. In addition to her work as a freelance director and cinematographer, she works as a teacher at the Graphische and the Hertha Firnberg School in Vienna.
