synopsis
An insurance scam and the left thumb of the single father Vladimir find themselves in a low-key tragedy about the kafkaesque bureaucracy of Austrian immigration law.
Trieste Film Festival
LAND DER BERGE
logline
Winner of the 2025 MIOB in Shorts Award
Credits
original title
LAND DER BERGE
international title
LAND OF MOUNTAINS
Country/Countries
Germany, Austria
Year
2023
Duration
28 min
screenplay
Olga Kosanović
director of photography
Simone Hart
sound
Flora Rajakowitsch, Rudi Pototschnig
editing
Sebastian Schreiner
producer
Deniz Cooper, Rupert Kasper, Olga Kosanović
vita
Olga Kosanović
Olga Kosanović, born on 01.04.1995 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.
