EXCUSE ME, I'M LOOKING FOR THE PING-PONG ROOM AND MY GIRLFRIEND - short fiction

ENTSCHULDIGUNG, ICH SUCHE DEN TISCHTENNISRAUM UND MEINE FREUNDIN

written and directed by BERNHARD WENGER

2018 I 23' I Austria/Germany I Vienna Film Academy I Colour I Cinemascope
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A film about a couple on a wellness trip, where one partner disappears and the other isn't sure whether he's looking for her or himself. Within the bizarre world of the alpine wellness resort,
Aron begins a new chapter in his life.
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cast RASMUS LUTHANDER I ELLI TRINGOU I ANNA ÅSTRÖM I CARL ACHLEITNER

director of cinematography ALBIN WILDNER
produced by FLORIAN BAYER I CLARA KÖNIG I BERNHARD WENGER
production design & costumes by ANTONIO SEMERARO
sound FLORIAN RABL I KEN RISCHARD I INES VORREITER I MATTHIAS ERMERT
edited by RUPERT HÖLLER
original score by MARIO FARTACEK
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WINNER Best Short Film at the Austrian Film Awards 2019
39th Film Festival Max Ophüls Award, DE (WINNER Audience Award)
21st Diagonale Festival of Austrian Film, AT (WINNER Best Short & Youth Jury Award)
40th Moscow International Film Festival, RU
20th Independent Days Karlsruhe (WINNER Jury Award & Audience Award)
20th Tel Aviv Student Film Festival, IL (WINNER Best Script)
14th FEST - New Directors, New Films Festival, PT (WINNER Best Short)
30th Filmfest Dresden, DE
15th Vienna Shorts Festival, AT
34th Short Film Festival Hamburg, DE
24th Palm Springs Short Fest, US
21st Guanajuato Film Festival, MX
36th Flickers' Rhode Island Film Festival, US
14th Hollyshorts Film Festival, US
24th Sarajevo Film Festival, BA
43rd Odense Film Festival, DK
8th Aesthetica Film Festival, UK

116 festival selections including 40 awards
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