Documentary

Crows – Nature is watching us

Corvids are the only animals that humans have been observing and studying for thousands of years and that have the ability to pass on this knowledge to their offspring. The film follows the thesis that ravens have built up a “collective knowledge” of the cultural history of humanity thanks to their extraordinary cognitive abilities.

Data

Category: Documentary
Financing: Minority coproduction
Format: DCP, 100 Min
Release: 20.10.2023
Distribution: FILMLADEN Filmverleih GmbH
Admissions: 6.824
Funding Film Institute: 114.778 €
Share of Austrian production costs: 27 %
Share of total production costs: 9 %
Television investment: 95.000 €
Co-production: Lucky Film (CH, 65%)
International funding: Bundesamt für Kultur BAK, Zürcher Filmstiftung, Suissimage, UBS Kulturstiftung, Ernst Göhner Stiftung
Funding program: ÖFI
Film location: Vienna, Japan, India, USA/Canada, Germany, Switzerland
Shooting time: July 2018 - July 2019
Days of shooting: 70
Completion: Winter 2019/2020
Funding institutions Austria: Filminstitut, Filmstandort Austria, Filmfonds Wien

Credits

Production: ALLEGRO Filmproduktionsgesellschaft m.b.H.
Producer Austria: Helmut Grasser
Director: Martin Schilt
Script-concept: Martin Schilt
DOP: Attila Boa, Karen Vazquez-Guadarrama
Editor: Marina Wernli
Sound engineer: Marco Teufen, Andreas Hagemann
Sound design: Cornelia Baumgartner, Bernhard Belej, Jacques Kieffer
Music: Peter Scherer
German Title: Krähen – Nature is watching us
Television investment: ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen), SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen