WORK
Documentary, LBN/AT 2023, 75 min
Digital
Director I Script I Editor JAKOB CARL SAUER & NICOLA VON LEFFERN
Cinematographer JAKOB CARL SAUER
With B
SYNOPSIS
Eleven-year-old Joanna, on the verge of womanhood, lives in the middle of the fairy tale-forest alone with her mother. A story between dream and reality about a girl from Zalesie and her innocent ideas about love and death.
FESTIVALS
K3 Film Festival (Winner) 2019
DIAGONALE (Official Selection) 2020
WARSAW FILMFESTIVAL (Official Selection)
Documentary BIH/AT 2022, 52 min
Digital
Director/Script JOSHUA JADI
Co-Director JAKOB CARL SAUER, MARIUS MERTENS
Cinematographer JAKOB CARL SAUER
Editor JAKOB CARL SAUER, MARIUS MERTENS, JOSHUA JADI
Sounddesign LISA HOLLAUS, MARIUS MERTENS
Colors DANIEL HOLLERWEGER
With BEKHA Šećić
SYNOPSIS
In the middle of a COVID lockdown, a three-day peace march in Bosnia shows both a woman’s search for traces of her murdered brother and a nation’s remembrance of the greatest genocide in Europe since the Holocaust: The Srebrenica massacre.
Documentary AT/MEX 2022, 60 min
Digital
Director I Script I Editor JAKOB CARL SAUER & NICOLA VON LEFFERN
Cinematographer JAKOB CARL SAUER
Re-recording Mixer Matthias Ermert
Music HVOB
Cast BRIAN SKATER
SYNOPSIS
Eleven-year-old Joanna, on the verge of womanhood, lives in the middle of the fairy tale-forest alone with her mother. A story between dream and reality about a girl from Zalesie and her innocent ideas about love and death.
FESTIVALS
K3 Film Festival (Winner) 2019
DIAGONALE (Official Selection) 2020
WARSAW FILMFESTIVAL (Official Selection)
Fiction, AT/PL 2018, 35 min
Kodak Vision 3, Super 16 I Super 8
Director I Script Julia Zborowska
Cinematographer Jakob Carl Sauer
Editor Christin Veith & Nooran Talebi
Sounddesign Nora Czamler
Music Yongbom Lee
Colors Willi Willinger
Cast
Agnieszka Piszczek
Ilona Ostrowska
Radek Chalama
SYNOPSIS
Eleven-year-old Joanna, on the verge of womanhood, lives in the middle of the fairy tale-forest alone with her mother. A story between dream and reality about a girl from Zalesie and her innocent ideas about love and death.
FESTIVAL SELECTIONS
AUSTRIAN FILMAWARD (Nomination) 2019
DIAGONALE (Official Selection) 2018
WARSAW FILMFESTIVAL (Official Selection) 2018
Documentary, Music, AT/UGA 2019, 7 min
Digital
Director I Script I Editor JAKOB CARL SAUER & NICOLA VON LEFFERN
Cinematographer JAKOB CARL SAUER
Re-recording Mixer Matthias Ermert
Music HVOB
Cast BRIAN SKATER
SYNOPSIS
Eleven-year-old Joanna, on the verge of womanhood, lives in the middle of the fairy tale-forest alone with her mother. A story between dream and reality about a girl from Zalesie and her innocent ideas about love and death.
FESTIVAL SELECTIONS
K3 Film Festival (Winner) 2019
BERLIN COMMERCIAL (Winner) 2020
DIAGONALE (Official Selection) 2020
AUSTRIAN MUSIC VIDEO AWARD (Nomination) 2020
VIENNA SHORTS (Official Selection) 2020
FÜNF SEEN FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection) 2020
Fiction I Music, AT/DE/DNK 2018, 6:38min
Kodak Vision3, Super 16 I Super 8
Director I Script Nicola von Leffern
Cinematographer Jakob Carl Sauer
Production Yana Eresina / Das Rund
Editor Nicola von Leffern
Sounddesign David Ruhmer
Music Monolink - Swallow
Colors Daniel Hollerweger
Cast ALMA HASUN
SYNOPSIS
Feeling suffocated by the world around her, our lead protagonist is flooded by memories of her former wild-child days. In retaliation of her monotonous daily routine, she dyes her hair a ferocious red and takes to the road.
“Like the dark swallows the light, you have to spit yourself back out… Everything changes, just spit yourself back out”
FESTIVAL SELECTIONS
BERLIN MUSIC VIDEO AWARDS (Official Selection), 2019
DIAGONALE FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection), 2019
VIENNA SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection), 2019
PORTUGAL INTERNATIONAL FILMFESTIVAL (Official Selection), 2019