DIE LETZTE WETTE

INFO

Director

Meike Wüstenberg

Genre

Drama

Duration

14’

Year

2024

Nationality

Austria

SYNOPSYS

The elderly couple Ernst and Leni regularly bets on the last piece of chocolate. They make a bet as to which of them will die first. Both want to die before the other, but each for their own reasons. In a black-humored and unsentimental way, but with a big heart, both show that they don’t want to be without each other.

STILLS

CREDITS

Director

Meike Wüstenberg

Genre

Drama

Duration

14′

Nationality

Austria

Cast

Dany Sigel

Wolfgang Hübsch

Screenplay

Meike Wüstenberg

Produced by

Filmakademie Wien

Producers

Julie Stempelova

Cinematography

Dimitri Fjodorovs

Editing

Lucas Lörch

Sound design

Leyla Jaff

Music

Felix Pöchhacker

Assistant Director

Cordula Rieger

Set design

Simon Mück

Zara Zankl

Costume Design

Johanna Kleinschuster

Lena Felberbauer

AWARDS AND SELECTIONS

2024 - BAFTA ® QUALIFYING
World Premiere
39. Côte Ouest - Festival Européen du Film Court de Brest
2024
National Premiere
12. Filmfestival Kitzbühel
2024
Official Selection
58. Hof International Film Festival
2024 - BAFTA ®, OSCAR ® QUALIFYING
Official Selection
38. Leeds International Film Festival
2024
Official Selection
29. Linea d'Ombra Festival
2024
Honorable Mention
1. CortoCondorello Festival
2024
Honorable Mention
30. Caminhos Film Festival

MEIKE WÜSTENBERG

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BIOGRAPHY

Meike, born in 1994 in Berlin, discovered a passion for film while studying European Media Studies at the University of Potsdam. She began making her own films as a writer and director and went on to study film directing at Vienna Film Academy, starting in 2018. Her short films screened at numerous international film festivals, including Pöff Shorts, Regard and Hof International Film Festival. Meike was a recipient of the BMKÖS Start Scholarship for Film Art in 2023 and the screenplay scholarship Literar Mechana 2024.

LATEST FILMS

DIE LETZTE WETTE

2024

 

THE END OF THE END OF THE WORLD

2022

 

I PAINT SO I AM

2019

 

THE FAST AND THE CURIOUS

2019

 

RUM UND EHRE

2019