New Talent
Feature Film
Workshop project
Horror

Family Dinner

16-year-old teenage girl Simi is visiting her aunt Claudia over the Easter holidays. Claudia is a nutritionist and Simi wants her aunt to help her lose weight. But something terrible is going on between Claudia, her teenage son Filipp, and her husband Stefan. While Simi has to undergo a radical diet, can she discover the family’s plans for Easter Sunday?

Data

Genre: Horror
Category: Feature Film, New Talent, Workshop project
Financing: Nationaler Film
Format: DCP, 97 Min
Release: 27.01.2023
Distribution: Panda Lichtspiele Filmverleih GmbH, Panda Lichtspiele Filmverleih GmbH
Admissions: 8.769
Funding Film Institute: 430.430 €
Share of Austrian production costs: 32 %
Share of total production costs: 29 %
Television investment: 286.724 €
Funding program: ÖFI
first run on ORF1 Austrian Broadcasting Service: 17.06.2025
Viewers: 22.000
Film location: Vienna, Lower Austria
Shooting time: March - April 2021
Days of shooting: 25
Completion: Winter 2021/2022
Funding institutions Austria: Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien, Filmstandort Austria, Land Niederösterreich

Credits

Production: Capra Filmproduktions GmbH, Capra Filmproduktions GmbH, Film AG Produktions GmbH
Producer: Lola Basara, Johanna Scherz, Alexander Glehr
Director: Peter Hengl
Script: Peter Hengl
DOP: Gabriel Krajanek
Editor: Sebastian Schreiner
Sound engineer: Theda Schifferdecker
Sound design: Lenja Gathmann
Costume design: Marlene Pleyl
Set design: Pia Juliane Jaros
Music: Peter Kutin
Cast: Pia Hierzegger (Claudia), Michael Pink (Stefan), Nina Katlein (Simi), Alexander Sladek (Filipp)
Production manager: Philipp Grandits
Television investment: ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen)