The story of a man led back to Austria, his home country, by a business trip. The country has become strange to him, more a prison than a refuge, yet it touches on the story of his mother and stirs up forgotten memories.
Direction
Chiha traps you in Fouad's unease with surgical precision.
Cinematography
Austria becomes suffocatingly beautiful, almost hostile.
Acting
Libolt's silence screams louder than any dialogue.
Director
Patric Chiha
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Chiha, born in Austria to immigrant parents, channels his own fractured belonging—this isn't tourism, it's autopsy.
The film's 50-minute runtime was reportedly a deliberate constraint: Fouad's trip is too short to resolve anything, too long to endure.
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