
For a Moment Freedom

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
- 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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