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.

Direction: Greg Zglinski

Script: Greg Zglinski

Production: Katrin Renz, Stefan Jäger, Katrin Renz

Cinematography: Piotr Jaxa

Editing: Karina Ressler

Production Design: Gerald Damovsky

Costume Design: Tanja Hausner

Make-Up: Martine Felber

Sound: Laurent Jespersen

Original Score: Bartosz Chajdecki

Cast: Birgit Minichmayr, Philipp Hochmair, Mona Petri, Mehdi Nebbou

Original Title: TIERE

Original Language: German

Film Production Countries: Switzerland, Austria, Poland

Website: https://www.beforfilms.com/animals

Statement of the Director/s
I feel drawn to this story in a magical way. The first time I read the screenplay I had the feeling that I had touched on the secret of life and death. I had the feeling that the world is much bigger than we see and experience it in everyday life. And I had the feeling that this is real. I would like to pass on this feeling to the audience of the film. It’s a game with perspectives. Who is imagining whose existence? Or is he imagining somebody who is in turn imagining something else? Who is true? Who is really there? In whose head is this film happening? And what is the role of the animals? It’s the logic of a dream which evades our usual experience of perception.
However, it is above all the story of a man and a woman who try to find a way to each other but have a hard time because they seem not to live in the same
reality. Isn’t it in fact the case that, when emotions come into play, we lose all feeling for space of time? And in the final analysis aren‘t we all alone with our emotions? This story is a mystery, which only allows us to sense that behind the visible world there is another, invisible one.

Biography of the Director/s
Born in Warsaw, Poland (08.04.1968).
Pantomime and Acting School in
Zurich, Switzerland, where he has been living for 15 years. Language studies in Australia and France. Composer, guitar and bass player in rock music formations. Film studies at directing department at the National Academy for Film, Television and Theatre (PWSFTViT) in Lodz, Poland. Former student of Krzysztof Kieslowski. 2005-09 member of the “Zurcher Filmstiftung” film commission in Switzerland. Member of Swiss and Polish Filmacademy.

Filmography of the Director/s
2011
“COURAGE” / „Wymyk”

2004
“ONE LONG WINTER
WITHOUT FIRE” /
“Tout un hiver sans feu”

Awards Won
Main Prize for best feature film in
international competition at the Roma
Independent Film Festival in Rome, 2012
> Main Prize for best feature film at the
International Film Festival „Kino
Pavasaris”in Vilnius/Lithuania 2012
> Journalist Prize at “Prowincjonalia”
in Września/Poland, 2012
> SIGNIS Prize for best film and Special Jury Prize for Robert Wieckiewicz at 27.
Warsaw Film Festival, 2011

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