What if your family measured love in permanent damage?
12-year-old Fabi has to finally prove himself as one of the family - by getting his first scar.
Acting
Philip Kapell carries generational weight at twelve.
Direction
Georg makes 25 minutes feel like a lifetime of inherited damage.
Director
Jens Kevin Georg
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Student Academy Awards recognition signals this short's precise dissection of Austrian working-class masculinity.
The title 'Crust' refers to both scar tissue and the hardened surface of toxic family dynamics — the wound and the armor become indistinguishable.
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