The Third Option

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Director:Thomas Fürhapter
Length:78 minutes
Genre:Documentary

The Third Option

Die dritte Option; Thomas Fürhapter, 2017, OV (nem.) + AT + eST | MFF BA 2017; Thomas Fürhapter, 2017, versions: OR,SS,ES,

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Director: Thomas Fürhapter • Scenario: Thomas Fürhapter • Camera: Judith Benedikt, Manuel Zauner

„We screwed until we could screw no more, and in the autumn i became pregnant.“ A female voice soberly introduces us to her own experience from an invisible position outside the image’s sharply framed window on Western welfare reality. New technology raises new ethical dilemmas and one them is brought to a head in this formally conscious essay – which even allows itself to do so with an edge of bone-dry irony. What do you do if your foetal scan reveals that your child does not live up to modern society’s expectations of normality? A painful question that more and more people have to ask themselves. The perfectly composed images and the edgy controversion could be signed by Jacques Tati and Harun Farocki, but Thomas Fürhapter is pursuing a different yet highly human mission in his impressive first film.

Length: 78 min

Year: 2017

Country of origin:

  • Austria

Language version:

OR - Original version
SS - Slovak subtitles
ES - English subtitles

More info about festival and tickets on festival website IFF BA

Director: Thomas Fürhapter • Scenario: Thomas Fürhapter • Camera: Judith Benedikt, Manuel Zauner

„We screwed until we could screw no more, and in the autumn i became pregnant.“ A female voice soberly introduces us to her own experience from an invisible position outside the image’s sharply framed window on Western welfare reality. New technology raises new ethical dilemmas and one them is brought to a head in this formally conscious essay – which even allows itself to do so with an edge of bone-dry irony. What do you do if your foetal scan reveals that your child does not live up to modern society’s expectations of normality? A painful question that more and more people have to ask themselves. The perfectly composed images and the edgy controversion could be signed by Jacques Tati and Harun Farocki, but Thomas Fürhapter is pursuing a different yet highly human mission in his impressive first film.

Year: 2017

Country of origin:

  • Austria

Language version:

OR - Original version
SS - Slovak subtitles
ES - English subtitles