• Feature Film

For a Moment Freedom

Filmplakat von 'Ein Augenblick Freiheit' mit einem Mann, der einen Schwan in die Luft hält und ihn anschaut, vor einem blauen Himmelshintergrund. Text mit Filmtitel, Auszeichnungen und Regisseur Arash T. Riahi.

Why are two 20-year-olds willing to abandon their normal lives in order to smuggle a couple of small children from Iran to Austria, so they can be reunited with their parents? Can anything other than religious fanaticism impel a man to burn himself to death in public? Love, perhaps! A film about mankind's universal need to have dreams ? and the courage to pursue these dreams, even though many of them dissolve into thin air.

Data

Category
Feature Film
Financing
Majoritäre Koproduktion
Format
35 mm, 110 Min
Approximate cinema release
09.01.2009
Release
09.01.2009
Distribution
FILMLADEN Filmverleih GmbH
Admissions
20.564
Co-production

Les Films du Losange (FR)

International funding

Eurimages

Festivals & Awards (Selection)

2008: Golden Zenith for Best First Fiction Feature Film (Montreal)
2008: Golden Eye Award for the Best First Feature Film (Zürich)
2008: Christera Award for Best Directing (Biarritz)
2008: Vienna Film Award for the best Austrian Film
2008: Public Award & Student Award (Essone)
2008: Main Award of the Jury & Student Award & Publics Prize (Pessac)
2008: Best Screenplay (Argentina)
2008: Grand Prize for Best Movie & Publics Prize (Manaus)
2009: Filmpreis des saarländischen Ministerpräsidenten Interfilmpreis (Saarbrücken)
2009: Thomas-Pluch-Preis
2009: Special Jury Award & Special Audition Award (Lecce)
2009: Canvas Award (main competitive prize) & Youth Jury Award (Belgien)
2009: Der fliegende Ochse & NDR – Regiepreis (Schwerin)
2009: Public Award (Norwegen)
2010: Silver Audience Award (Tromsö)

Funding program
ÖFI
Film location
Vienna, Ankara, Erzurum
Shooting time
March - April 2007
Funding institutions Austria
Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien
Credits
Production
Wega-Filmproduktionsgesellschaft m.b.H.
Producer
Veit Heiduschka, Michael Katz
Director
Arash T. Riahi
Script
Arash T. Riahi
DOP
Michi Riebl
Editor
Karina Ressler
Sound engineer
Mohsan Nasiri
Costume design
Monika Buttinger
Set design
Christoph Kanter
Music
Karuan
Cast
Navid Akhavan (Ali), Pourya Mahyari (Merdad), Elika Bozorgi (Asy), Sina Saba (Arman)
Production manager
Ulrike Lässer
International distribution
Les Films du Losange
German Title
Ein Augenblick Freiheit
Television investment
ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen), Canal+, ARTE Germany, ARTE France

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