Fever
Fieber

A film by Elfi Mikesch

Austria l 80 min

written & directed by Elfi Mikesch
produced by AMOUR FOU

with the support of Austrian Film Institute, Cinestyria, Innovative Film Austria, Vienna Film Fund

Austria, 1950. Franzi, twelve, lives in a small town with her parents. Photographs belong to her life like picture books to those of other kids. She spends days and nights between dream and reality, 'bringing to life' the photos her dad took in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia while being stationed there as a foreign legionaire. The images are enigmatic and spark her imagination, fascination and horror lie never far apart. The father's feverish dream, triggered by a recurrent surge of malaria, becomes the girl's nightmare. In Fever, two narrative threads conjoin suspensefully: fiction and photo-film.

biofilmo Elfi Mikesch