Feature Film

Where No One Knows Us

The Chechen refugee kids Oskar (8) and Lilli (13), who have been living in Austria for six years, are about to be deported along with their mother. When their mother attempts suicide it results in the short-term suspension of the deportation – but also in the forced separation of the family. The children’s hope that they will be reunited with their mother is nourished by their love for each other and challenges all bureaucratic obstacles with passion and poetry. A bitter-sweet odyssey about the many ways of perceiving the world around you in order to survive.

Data

aka: Oskar & Lilli
Category: Feature Film
Financing: Nationaler Film
Format: DCP, 102 Min
Approximate cinema release: 2020
Release: 02.10.2020
Distribution: FILMLADEN Filmverleih GmbH
Admissions: 8.290
Funding Film Institute: 690.000 €
Share of total production costs: 28 %
Television investment: 595.000 €
VoD Release: 30.01.2021
DVD Release: 01.03.2021
Funding program: ÖFI
first run on ORF2 Austrian Broadcasting Service: 18.06.2023
Viewers: 49.000
Film location: Vienna, Lower Austria
Shooting time: Summer 2018
Days of shooting: 35
Completion: 20201002
Funding institutions Austria: Filmfonds Wien, Filmstandort Austria, Land Niederösterreich

Credits

Production: Wega-Filmproduktionsgesellschaft m.b.H.
Producer Austria: Veit Heiduschka, Michael Katz
Director: Arash T. Riahi
Script: Arash T. Riahi
DOP: Enzo Brandner
Editor: Julia Drack, Stephan Bechinger
Sound engineer: Atanas Tcholakov
Sound design: Atanas Tcholakov
Costume design: Monika Buttinger
Set design: Katrin Huber, Gerhard Dohr
Music: Karwan Marouf
Cast: Leopold Pallua (Oskar), Rosa Zant (Lilli), Anna Fenderl (Betty), Christine Ostermayer (Erika), Alexandra Maria Nutz (Lehrerin), Markus Zett (Lehrer), Simone Fuith (Rut), Rainer Wöss (Georg)
Production manager: Ulrike Lässer
German Title: Ein bisschen bleiben wir noch
Television investment: ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen)