New Talent
Feature Film
Horror

Smother

After the death of her estranged father, Manu, a dry alcoholic, must take care of his estate. In her parents’ old house, she comes across a strange child’s drawing, conjuring up a dark trauma. The ghosts of her past begin to haunt Manu and threaten her young daughter.

Green Filming (Pilot-) Project

Data

Genre: Horror
Category: Feature Film, New Talent
Financing: Nationaler Film
Format: Digital, 90 Min
Release: 14.04.2023
Distribution: Luna Filmverleih GmbH
Admissions: 2.001
Funding Film Institute: 492.400 €
Share of total production costs: 29 %
Television investment: 415.000 €
Funding program: ÖFI
first run on ORF1 Austrian Broadcasting Service: 25.03.2025
Viewers: 14.000
Film location: Vienna, Lower Austria
Shooting time: Summer 2021
Days of shooting: 33
Completion: Winter 2021/2022
Funding institutions Austria: Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien, Filmstandort Austria, Land Niederösterreich

Credits

Production: Glitter and Doom GmbH & Co KG, PRISMA Film- und Fernsehproduktion GmbH
Producer: Viktoria Salcher, Mathias Forberg, Lena Weiss, Eugen Klim
Director: Achmed Abdel-Salam
Script: Achmed Abdel-Salam
DOP: Alexander Dirninger
Editor: Matthias Writze
Sound engineer: Theda Schifferdecker
Sound design: Lenja Gathmann
Costume design: Veronika Harb
Set design: Winnie Küchl
Music: Daniel Helmer
Green Film Consultant: Barbara Weingartner
Cast: Cornelia Ivancan (Michi), Lola Herbst (Hanna), Heinz Trixner (Peppi)
Production manager: Robert Opratko
German Title: Heimsuchung
Television investment: ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen)