EUROPA
fiction, A 2023, 98 min.
Festivals
Sarajevo Film Festival
Haifa Film Festival
Zürich Film Festival
BFI London Film Festival
Viennale
Cast
Lilith Stangenberg, Jetnor Gorezi, Steljona Kadillari, Mirando Sylari, Tobias Winter, Jeff Ricketts
Crew
writer & director: Sudabeh Mortezai
1st AD: Robert Budina
2nd AD: Frenki Veshi
casting Austria/Germany: Eva Roth, Ulrike Putzer
casting Albania: Suela Bako
director of photography: Klemens Hufnagl
editor: Julia Drack
colorist: Andi Winter
original sound & sound design: Atanas Tcholakov
production designer: Julia Libiseller
costume designer: Carola Pizzini
makeup artist: Tom Mayr
producers: Mehrdad Mortezai, Sudabeh Mortezai
executive producer UK: Mike Goodridge (Good Chaos)
line producer: Ropert Opratko
line producer Albania: Sabina Kodra (Erafilm)
production manager: Louis Oellerer
production coordinator: Bianca Leutgab
accountant: Susanna Harrer
Funded by
Austrian Film Institute, Vienna Film Fund, ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen), Film4
Austrian Distributor
Filmladen Filmverleih
International Sales by
Memento International
Synopsis
Beate, an ambitious executive working at EUROPA, a mysterious corporation looking to expand into the Balkans region. Seemingly promoting philanthropy and investment in underdeveloped areas, Europa actually needs to buy off lands from locals in a remote valley in Albania using Beate as the main negotiator for this ambiguous mission. But things don’t go as planned when she is challenged by Jetnor, a stubborn and spiritual farmer who refuses to leave the land of his ancestors.
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