film

Potted Palm Trees

Austria | 2020 | Fiction | 20’ | Polish premiere

  • Director: Rosa Friedrich
  • Script: Rosa Friedrich
  • Cinematography: Albert Car
  • Editing: Svenja Plaas
  • Sound: Kai Shimada
  • Cast: Maresi Riegner, Henny Reents, Lars Rudolph
  • Producer: Dominic Spitaler
  • Production: Film Academy Vienna

 

Her dress is far too lavish and the toilet cubicle way too small for the bride to fit in. The ballroom is jam-packed and the mood alarmingly good. Something is about to burst: The groom’s delusion of grandeur? The pregnant belly of deaf Betti? Her stepfather’s patience? Or the wine-filled bladder of his ex-wife?

 

  • Main festivals:
  • International Film Festival Karlovy Vary - European Film Promotion Future Frames
  • Aesthetica Film Festival
  • Diagonale
  • Vienna Shorts
  • Festival du Nouveau Cinéma