Films & Directors


Ein Augenblick Freiheit

Spielfilm, AT/FR 2008, 110 min., OmeU


Thursday 19.03.
21:00, UCI Annenhof Saal 8

Sunday 22.03.
11:30, UCI Annenhof Saal 8

Regie: Arash T. Riahi
Script: Arash T. Riahi
Camera: Michi Riebl
Editor: Karina Ressler
Sound: Mohsan Nasiri
Music: Karuan Marouf
Props: Christoph Kanter
Costumes: Monika Buttinger
Cast: Navid Akhavan, Pourya Mahyari, Fares Fares, Payam Madjlessi, Behi Djanati Ataï, Johannes Silberschneider, Michael Niavarani, u.v.a.
Producer: Veit Heiduschka, Margaret Menegoz
Production: Wega-Film
Coproduction: Les Films du Losange (FR)

Tragicomic and suspenseful, Ein Augenblick Freiheit traces the odyssey of three groups of Iranian Kurd refugees. On the way to their hoped-for freedom they get stranded in an uninviting hotel in Ankara. The first moments of unutterable relief are all too brief. What follows is a gruelling wait, an emotional roller coaster ride between hope and disappointment. If the asylum application is refused, deportation follows, delivering some to certain death.