Austrian Film “Breathing” at European Film Festival 2017

Hanoi: Tue 16 May 2017, 6 pm
Sat 20 May 2017, 8 pm
National Cinema Center
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Hue: Tue 16 May 2017, 8 pm
Dong Ba Cinema
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HCMC: Wed 17 May 2017, 8 pm
Tue 23 May 2017, 6 pm
CineStar

From Austrian Embassy:

You are invited to the screening of Austrian film as part of European Film Festival 2017: “Breathing”. This film is not for viewers under 16 years old.

Directors: KARL MARKOVICS
Screenwriter: KARL MARKOVICS
Cast: THOMAS SCHUBERT, KARIN LISCHKA, GERHARD LIEBMANN, GEORG FRIEDRICH, STEFAN MATOUSCH
Genre: Drama
Released: May 19, 2011
Language: With German and Vietnamese & English subtitles

Europa Cinemas Label – Cannes Film Festival 2011
Best Film/Actor – Sarajevo Film Festival 2011
Best Film Award – International Film Festival São Paulo 2011
German Language Feature Film – Zurich Film Festival 2011
Best Film/Director/Actor – Austrian Film Award 2012

19-year-old Roman Kogler is a loner. He is closed-off, awkward, angry, a bit lost – and he is staying in a juvenile detention center. As a day-release prisoner he is allowed to leave jail for a job, but his colleagues at the varying workplaces don’t make it easy for the young delinquent. Not that Roman helps his case much – his solitary character and his uncommunicative way sabotage many employment options. He just doesn’t seem to be fit for re-socialization.

After many failed attempts, Roman finds a probation job at the municipal morgue in Vienna and of all things; it is this job dealing with death that shows him the path back to life.

See the film’s trailer here:

This lauded first feature of actor-turned-director Karl Markovics (he starred in the 2008 Best Foreign Language Academy Award Winner “The Counterfeiters”) uses active, meticulously composed visuals, to show a young man slowly integrating himself into the world, and the world, much more slowly, learning to take him back. It exposes some valuable things about redemption and prisoner reintegration.

Free tickets will be distributed from 10 May in all 3 cities.

Details of distribution timing of each location can be found below:

HANOI

Goethe Institut Hanoi: From 10/5 (9h – 12h & 13h – 17:30h)
56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc Str., Tel.: 04 3734 2251/2/3-9

British Council: On 11/5 (from 9am until tickets run out or 12am)
20 Thuy Khue Str., Tel.: 04 3843 6780

L’Espace: On 12/5 (12h – 20h)
24 Trang Tien Str., Tel.: 04 3936 2164

HO CHI MINH CITY

Goethe Institut: From 10/05 (9h – 12h & 14h – 17h)
18 Road no. 1, Cu xa Do Thanh, Ward 4, Dist.3, Tel.: 08 3832 6716 /ext.14

British Council: On 11/ 5 (from 9am until tickets run out or 12am)
25 Le Duan Str., Dist. 1, Tel.: 08 3823 2862 (ext 2601)

CineStar Cinema: From 10/5 (9h-21h)
271 Nguyen Trai str., Dist 1, Hotline: 093 890 0643/ Tel: 08 7300 8881

HUE CITY

Dong Ba Cinema
187 Tran Hung Dao Str., Tel.: 0234 352 3850

Thua Thien Hue Cinema and Film Distribution Center
25 Hai Ba Trung Str., Tel.: 023 382 2145

Or

Free tickets can be collected from Thursday, 11/5/2017 from 9:00 to 16:00 at:

Hanoi: Austrian Embassy, 8th floor, 53 Quang Trung, Hanoi, Tel.: 04- 39 43 30 50
HCMC: Austrian Honorary Consulate, 121/40 phố Nguyen Van Huong, Thao Dien Ward, Dist 2, HCMC, Tel: 08. 3519 3128

More information can be found at the website.