"A slow-burn affair built around a compellingly ambiguous lead performance by Lilith Stangenberg."

SCREEN DAILY
  • Archive - Festival 39
  • Director: Sudabeh Mortezai
  • Austria, United Kingdom 2023
  • 100 minutes
  • German, English,
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Beate is 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 Southern 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.

Europa, the new feature from Austrian-Iranian filmmaker Sudabeh Mortezai, comes to Haifa from its world premiere at the Sarajevo Festival. The film is a portrait of two worlds colliding, a confrontation that cannot end well.

Filmography: Joy (2018), Macondo (2014).

2.10 Screening in the presence of the director

 

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  • Director Sudabeh Mortezai
  • Production Mehrdad Mortezai
  • Script Sudabeh Mortezai
  • Cinematography Klemens Hufnagl
  • Editing Julia Drack
  • Festivals Sarajevo
  • Actors Lilith Stangenberg, Jetnor Gorezi, Steljona Kadillari, Mirando Sylari, Tobias Winter
  • Source Memento Films