INFO
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Director |
Meike Wüstenberg |
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Genre |
Drama |
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Duration |
14’ |
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Year |
2024 |
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Nationality |
Austria |
SYNOPSYS
The elderly couple Ernst and Leni regularly bets on the last piece of chocolate. They make a bet as to which of them will die first. Both want to die before the other, but each for their own reasons. In a black-humored and unsentimental way, but with a big heart, both show that they don’t want to be without each other.
STILLS
CREDITS
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Director |
Meike Wüstenberg |
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Genre |
Drama |
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Duration |
14′ |
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Nationality |
Austria |
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Cast |
Dany Sigel Wolfgang Hübsch |
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Screenplay |
Meike Wüstenberg |
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Produced by |
Filmakademie Wien |
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Producers |
Julie Stempelova |
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Cinematography |
Dimitri Fjodorovs |
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Editing |
Lucas Lörch |
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Sound design |
Leyla Jaff |
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Music |
Felix Pöchhacker |
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Assistant Director |
Cordula Rieger |
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Set design |
Simon Mück Zara Zankl |
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Costume Design |
Johanna Kleinschuster Lena Felberbauer |
AWARDS AND SELECTIONS
2024 - BAFTA ® QUALIFYING
World Premiere
39. Côte Ouest - Festival Européen du Film Court de Brest
2024
National Premiere
12. Filmfestival Kitzbühel
2024
Official Selection
58. Hof International Film Festival
2024 - BAFTA ®, OSCAR ® QUALIFYING
Official Selection
38. Leeds International Film Festival
2024
Official Selection
29. Linea d'Ombra Festival
2024
Honorable Mention
1. CortoCondorello Festival
2024
Honorable Mention
30. Caminhos Film Festival
2025
Best Fiction Short Film
51. Internationales Filmwochenende Würzburg
2025
Best Student Short, Press Award
12. ClujShorts International Short Film Festival
2025
Official Selection
Courtoujours Lannion
2025
Official Selection
28. Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Film
2025
Official Selection
65. Zlín FIlm Festival - International Film Festival for Children and Youth
2025
Official Selection
16. ONE Country ONE Film - Apchat-Issoire International Festival
2025
Official Selection
32. FebioFest
2025
Official Selection
54. Sehsüchte International Student Film Festival
2025
Official Selection
25. Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote
2025
Official Selection
9. Ennesimo Film Festival
2025
Official Selection
10. SHOTS Film Festival
2025
Best Short Film
29. Kurzfilmtage Thalmässing
2025
Official Selection
23. One Shot International Short Film Festival
2025
Official Selection
13. Kurzfilmfestival Schrobenhausen
2025
Official Selection
Best of BFM - BOB
2025
Official Selection
19. EuroAsia Shorts
2025
Audience Award Winner
18. Wendland Shorts
2025
Official Selection
4. ShortOut - Film Festival
2025
Official Selection
11. Bašta Fest
2025
Official Selection
72. Pula Film Festival
2025
Official Selection
1. “E FU CINEMA” Short Film Festival
2025
Official Selection
11. Castiglioni Film Festival
2025
Honorable Mention
16. Aegean Film Festival
2025
Audience Award Winner
2. Sicani Cinema Experience
2025
Official Selection
7. Beach Film Festival
2025
Official Selection
1. The Forgotten Ones - Berlin Filmfestival
2025
Audience Award Winner
1. Wiesenflimmern - Open Air Filmfestival Fulda
2025
Best Short Film
11. Moosburger Kurzfilmnacht
2025
Best Austrian Film
12. Festival of Nations
2025
Best Fiction Film Student Jury
25. Festival Internacional de Escuelas de Cine - Uruguay
2025
Best Student Film Award Winner
2. Chiaroscuro International Film Festival
2025
Official Selection
14. Festival de cinéma de la ville de Québec
2025
Official Selection
5. Sentiero Film Factory
2025
Official Selection
17. International Documentary & Short Film Festival of Kerala
2025
Official Selection
4. Kinocaravan
2025
Official Selection
13. Fabriano Film Fest
2025
Official Selection
30. SCHLiNGEL - International Film Festival for Children and Young Audiences
2025 - BAFTA ® QUALIFYING
Official Selection
54. Kyiv IFF Molodist
2025
Lorenzo Vecchio Award Winner - Best Short Film
24. Magma | Mostra di cinema breve
2025
Audience Award Winner
6. Kurzfilmfestivals Kurz.Film.Zuckerl
2025
Best Film Award Winner
15. Macau International Short Film Festival
MEIKE WÜSTENBERG
BIOGRAPHY
Meike, born in 1994 in Berlin, discovered a passion for film while studying European Media Studies at the University of Potsdam. She began making her own films as a writer and director and went on to study film directing at Vienna Film Academy, starting in 2018. Her short films screened at numerous international film festivals, including Pöff Shorts, Regard and Hof International Film Festival. Meike was a recipient of the BMKÖS Start Scholarship for Film Art in 2023 and the screenplay scholarship Literar Mechana 2024.
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