38th edition
17-25 january 2026
Image 100 Eur
Austria
2018 Fiction 25 min
Christmas time. Two Romanian half-brothers are leaving Vienna, without earning the money they expected after having worked for some months.
With : Iulian Postelnicu, Alfredo Minea, Claudia Joldes, Emmy Schörg, Tom Feichtinger
Screenplay : Aleksey Lapin
Image : Serafin Spitzer
Sound : Ken Rischard
Editing : Nooran Talebi
Production : Claudia Joldes
Aleksey Lapin was born in Tomsk, Russia. He lived in Kazakhstan and Ukraine, before moving to Italy in 1998, where he finished school and graduated with his first Bachelor of Arts degree from Bolzano Free University. After some postproduction working experience in Germany, he was admitted to the Vienna Film Academy and studied directing in Michael Haneke's class. He is currently developing his first full-length feature film.