Synopsis
Mahan is a taxi driver in Vienna, but his job frustrates him. He longs for his family and a normal life. One rainy night, a homeless woman gets into his taxi. She urgently wants to see her son, whose birthday it is. Mahan tries to get rid of her and accidentally breaks her present. To make up for the damage, he takes the strange woman on one last trip through the dark city.
NIGHTFACES takes place at night, when people open the door to themselves and let us look into the depths of the soul that remain hidden during the day. In rainy Vienna, the city of Sigmund Freud, a psychological drama unfolds that in all its heaviness is intended to give a spark of hope.
Details
- DIRECTOR /Martin Winter, Stefan Langthaler
- COUNTRY /Austria
- CATEGORIES /Short Film
- RUNTIME /23:00
Directors Biography
Martin Winter, Stefan Langthaler
Martin Winter was born 1983 in Leipzig, Germany. From 2008 he studied Directing at Filmcollege Vienna. (Directing class: Michael Kreihsl). There, he realized numerous shortfilms and documentaries together with his colleagues. The medium length film „Day Release“ is his graduation film and won the Austrian Film Award 2020.
Stefan Langthaler was born in 1987 in Vienna. From 2008 to 2013 he studied Writing and Directing at Filmcollege Vienna. For his work on FABIU he received the prestigious “Thomas Pluch Screenplay Award”. Having already been invited and awarded by several of the most prestigious film festivals in the world, the film was awarded a Special Mention by the international jury at the Festival du Court-Métrage de Clermont-Ferrand. In the meantime, FABIU has participated in over 100 festivals and received 38 awards. His latest short film BOOM AND BLOOM had it’s World Premiere at the 29th Mardi Gras Film Festival in Australia and received over 40 festival invitations.
Cast
Keycast : Sonja Romei
Credits
Directed by :Martin Winter & Stefan Langthaler
Written by : Stefan Langthaler
Producer : Stefan Langthaler, Martin Winter, Victoria Herbig, Alfie Ángel