Documentary

Elements Of(f) Balance

A journey to ecosystems hardly ever seen before, in the midst of a world based on exploitation. The focus is not on dystopian visions of the future, but on a new awareness and the new, concrete opportunities that open up for humanity when interrelated ways of living and forgotten alliances form the basis of our dealings with nature.

Data

Category: Documentary
Financing: Nationaler Film
Format: Digital Cinemascope, 98 min
Release: 05.12.2025
Distribution: FILMLADEN Filmverleih GmbH
Funding Film Institute: 275.000 €
Share of total production costs: 40 %
Television investment: 96.000 €
Funding program: ÖFI
Status: before release
Film location: Austria, Slowenia, Czech Republic, Romania, Yakutia, China, India, France, Germany, The Netherlands
Shooting time: May 2022 - April 2024
Days of shooting: 80
Completion: Winter 2023/2024
Funding institutions Austria: Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien, Filmstandort Austria, Land Niederösterreich, Land Salzburg

Credits

Production: Othmar Schmiderer
Producer: Othmar Schmiderer
Director: Othmar Schmiderer
Script-concept: Stephan Settele, Othmar Schmiderer
DOP: Siri Klug, Shaheen Dill-Riaz, Othmar Schmiderer, Jörg Burger
Editor: Arthur Summereder
Sound design: Andreas Hamza
Protagonists: Josef Holzer, Prof.Ferdinando Boero, Dr. Tinkara Tinta, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Vera Meyer, Mark Stüttler, Maurizio Montalti u.v.a.
Music: ChrisIan Fennesz
Production manager: Hanne Lassl
German Title: ELEMENTS OF(F) BALANCE
Television investment: ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen)