FORUM
Animals
Tiere
Greg Zglinski
Switzerland / Austria / Poland Fiction, 2017, 94 min. Original language: German World premiere: Berlinale 2017 Cast: Birgit Minichmayr / Philipp Hochmair / Mona Petri / Mehdi Nebbou / Michael Ostrowski Production: tellfilm GmbH, Zurich Coop 99 Filmproduktion, Vienna Opus Film, Lodz World Sales: Be For Films, Brussels T +32 4 89 80 21 23 www.beforfilms.com Press Agent: Alibicommunications Brigitta Portier | T +32 4 77 98 25 84 brigittaportier@alibicommunications.be
A collision with a sheep on a country road initiates a whole series of weird and unsettling experiences for Anna and Nick which ultimately leave them both incapable of being certain exactly where they are: in the real world, in their own imaginations – or in someone else’s imagination.
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* 1968 in Warsaw, Poland. Joint Swiss and Polish citizenship. Greg Zglinski works as director and screenwriter. He studied film directing under Krzysztof Kieślowski, among others, at the National Academy for Film, Television and Theatre in Łódź, Poland. He is known for ONE LONG WINTER WITHOUT FIRE (2004), which won the Grand Prix Signis for Best Film and CinemAvvenire Award for Best Feature Film at Mostra Internazionale in Venice as well as the Swiss Film Award for Best Fiction Film.