THE LANDSCAPE AND THE FURY

Nicole Vögele | Switzerland 2024 | 138 min. | Bosnian, Farsi, Dari, Kurdish | English with engl. subtitles

SUNDAY, 11.05. | 9:45 pm
Votiv Kino, Gr. Saal | TICKETS

Austrian premiere

Landmines from the Yugoslav wars are still being searched for and defused. The experiences of war are deeply imprinted in the minds of the inhabitants of Velika Kladuša, a village located near the Bosnian-Croatian border with the EU. Now, they are confronted with the fate of today’s war refugees who try to cross the border into the European Union through the surrounding forests.

The essay film THE LANDSCAPE AND THE FURY paints a picture of a border region where generations of humanitarian crises have left their mark on the landscape. Alongside grief, anger and memories of wars past and present, it is the encounters between people that offer comfort and retain hope for a better future.

Regie: Nicole Vögele
Kamera: Stefan Sick
Schnitt: Hannes Bruun
Ton: Jean-Pierre Gerth / Jonathan Schorr
Produktion: Beauvoir Films

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SCREENINGS & AWARDS
Visions du Réel 2024 Grand Jury Prize, Locarno Film Festival 2024, DOC ALLIANCE BEST FEATURE 2024, European Film Award Nomination 2024, Shanghai International Film Festival 2024 – Golden Goblet Award, DokuFest Prizren 2024, Doc Lisboa 2024, DOK Leipzig 2024, DMZ DOCS 2024, Tirana International Film Festival 2024, MIRAGE 2024 – Cinematography Award Nomination, Punto de Vista, ZagrebDox, Luxembourg City Film Festival – Documentary Award

BIOGRAPHY
Nicole Vögele is an independent filmmaker and journalist, based in Zurich and Berlin. She started her professional life with an apprenticeship as a commercial clerk but soon found her way into journalism. Most of her journalistic career she spent reporting for Swiss Television (SRF). She studied journalism at MAZ Lucerne and documentary filmmaking at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, where she graduated in 2017.
Closing Time (2018), documentary; Nebel (2014), Middle-length Documentary; In Die Innereien (2013), Essay; Frau Loosli (2013), Short documentary.