On The Border

Category: Documentary
Financing: Majoritäre Koproduktion
Format: DCP, 90 Min
Release: 13.06.2025
Distribution: FILMLADEN Filmverleih GmbH
Admissions: 1.763
Funding Film Institute: 183.060 €
Share of Austrian production costs: 31 %
Share of total production costs: 20 %
Television investment: 125.103 €
Co-production: Mira Film (CH, 20%), Corso Film (DE, 16%)
International funding: Bosch Stiftung, MEDIA, BAK, Zürcher Filmstiftung, Filmstiftung NRW
Funding program: ÖFI
Film location: Agadez, Niger, Sahara, Neamey, Brussels/Strasbourg
Shooting time: September 2021 - January 2023
Days of shooting: 38
Completion: Spring 2025
Funding institutions Austria: Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien, Filmstandort Austria

Credits

Production: FrameLab Filmproduktion
Producer: Susanne Guggenberger, Erik Winkler, Martin Roelly, Ümit Uludag
Producer Austria: Gerald Igor Hauzenberger
Director: Gerald Igor Hauzenberger
Script: Gerald Igor Hauzenberger, Gabriela Schild
Script-concept: Gerald Igor Hauzenberger
DOP: Jörg Burger, Thomas Eirich-Schneider, Gerald Igor Hauzenberger, Mohamad Iklass, Hajo Schomerus, Gabriela Schild
Editor: Nela Märki, Stefan Fauland
Sound engineer: Marco Teufen
Sound design: Nora Czamler, Nina Slatosch
Protagonists: Rhissa Feltou, Tilla Amadou, Achmet Dizi
Music: Bernhard Fleischmann
Production manager: Susanne Berger
German Title: On the Border - Europas Grenzen in der Sahara
Television investment: ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen), SRF, ZDF/3sat

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