FABIU
SHORT FILM | 2020 | 30min
Austria
95 FESTIVALS | 38 AWARDS
Cast
GÜNTER TOLAR, KRISTÓF GELLÉN, BIRGIT STIMMER
Written and Directed by
STEFAN LANGTHALER
Produced by
VICTORIA HERBIG, SEBASTIAN SCHMIDL
80-year-old retiree Arthur lives in a modest home in Vienna. For quite some time he has lovingly been caring for his seriously ill wife Martha, with only female nurses assisting him. When the new male hungarian care worker Fabiu enters the picture, his routine is broken. But soon the two men become closer and inside Arthur feelings of desire and suppressed longing start to rise.
Cast
GÜNTER TOLAR, KRISTÓF GELLÉN, BIRGIT STIMMER
Producers
VICTORIA HERBIG, SEBASTIAN SCHMIDL
Writer and Director
STEFAN LANGTHALER
Production Manager
VICTORIA HERBIG
Director of Photography
GEORG WEISS
Production Design
REBECCA KASSAR
Costume Design
LAURA MUSSI
Make Up & Wardrobe
SOPHIE LOTHALLER, MARLENE WAGENLEITNER
Sound
MARKUS ORTNER
Boom Operator
RAPHAEL ORTNER
Assistant Director
ARAM BAROIAN
Script & Continutity
MARTIN WINTER
Gaffers
DANIEL SINGER
Lighting Technicians
JAKOB GRASBÖCK, LUKAS HALDER, MARTIN NEFE, MICHAEL WIMPISSINGER, PHILIPP WINDSOR-TOPOLSKY
1st Assistant Camera
LUKAS WESELY, BINSAR PANDJAITAN (additional), JULIAN MATZAT (additional)
2nd Assistant Camera
JAKOB GRILL, MELANIE MACHER (additional)
Production Assistants
CLELIA VILLAREAL, JULIA SCHEIWEIN
Editor
SEBASTIAN SCHREINER
Sound Design and Mixing
CHRIS KUCHNER
Color Grading
FRANZ BRANDL
Composer
NIKOLAI BLAGOEV
Original Title
FABIU
Genre
DRAMA, LGBTQIA+
Production Country
AUSTRIA
Completion Date
JANUARY, 2020
Country of Filming
AUSTRIA (VIENNA)
Original Language
GERMAN
Subtitles
ENGLISH, FRENCH, SPANISH, ITALIAN
Camera
ARRI ALEXA MINI 4k
Lenses
ZEISS HIGH SPEED MKIII
Shooting Format
ARRI PRORES 4444, 3,2K
Screening Format
DCP, PRO RES 422HQ, h264
Aspect Ratio
1,85:1
Sound Mix
5.1, Stereo
Film Color
COLOR
Production Budget
15.000 EUR
Fundings
CITY OF VIENNA | STATE OF LOWER AUSTRIA
43rd Festival International du Court Métrage de Clermont-Ferrand, France
Special Mention
17th HollyShorts Film Festival, USA
Best International
38th Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival, USA
Alternative Spirit Award - Grand Prize
45th Cleveland International Film Festival, USA
Honorable Mention
23rd Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Film, Austria
Thomas Pluch Screenplay Award
14th GRAND OFF - WORLD INDEPENDENT SHORT FILM AWARDS, Poland
Best Directing
20th FILMZ - Festival of German Cinema, Germany
Best medium-length Film
14th Wendland Shorts, Germany
Best Film
10th Blaue Blume Award, Germany
Best Film
Best Directing
12th Macau International Short Film Festival, China
Best of Fest
31st Tampa Bay International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, USA
Best Short Film
37th Wicked Queer: Boston's LGBT Film Festival, USA
Best in Show - Audience Favorite
12nd International queer film festival Merlinka, Serbia
Best Short Film
10th OtherMovie Lugano Film Festival, Switzerland
Best Short
5th AMOR LGBT+ International Film Festival, Chile
Best International Short
9th Rural FilmFest, Spain
Best medium film “RuralFicción”
8th Filmfestival Kitzbuehel, Austria
Best Short Film Austria
22nd Soria International Film Festival, Spain
Jury Special Award
39th Sulmona International Film Festival, Italy
Best Actor (Günter Tolar)
Best Cinematography (Georg Weiss)
10th Evolution! Mallorca International Film Festival, Spain
Best Actor - International Short Film (Günter Tolar)
22nd OUTshine Film Festival, South Florida’s LGBTQ+, USA
Best Short Film - Runner-Up
4th Pittsburgh Shorts Film Festival, USA
Best Narrative Short - Runner-Up
6th SHOTS Film Festival, Slovenia
Best Cinematography (Georg Weiss)
10th Balneário Camboriú International Film Festival, Brazil
Best Cinematography (Georg Weiss)
48th Festival of Nations, Austria
Best Editing (Sebastian Schreiner)
8th International Usak Short Film Festival, Turkey
Best Production Design (Rebecca Kassar)
14th filmzeitkaufbeuren, Germany
Honorable Mention
10th QUEER-Streifen Regensburg, Germany
Audience Award
15th TLVFest - The Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival, Israel
Honorable Mention
20th MIFF Awards (Milan Int'l Film Festival Awards), Italy
Special Mention
4th Lonely Wolf Film Festival, UK
Best Directing
Best Queer
Best Cinematography (Georg Weiss)
Best Supporting Actor (Kristóf Gellén)
Best Film (Medium-length)