Far From Being Lipizzans
The filmmaker Olga Kosanović was born in Austria, where she has always lived. She only left for vacations and – like many young Europeans – to study abroad. But when she applied for Austrian citizenship, the authorities calculated that she’d spent two months too long out of the country. She was stunned to discover that she didn’t belong in the land she had always called home. Her feature film debut FAR FROM BEING LIPIZZANS records with considerable humour the bureaucratic process of naturalization and reflects on the factual and fictional elements involved in determining where someone belongs.
Olga Kosanović is a director, screenwriter and teacher based in Vienna. In 2020 she completed her film studies at the HFBK in Hamburg. In 2017/18 she was an exchange student at the FAMU Film Academy in Prague. She is also a graduate of the Graphische and independent film school "Friedl Kubelka" in Vienna. Her films were screened at numerous international festivals, in 2021 she was awarded the 3Sat Emerging Talent Award for her film “Comrade Tito, I inherit” at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival, got nominated for the German Shortfilmaward LOLA and received the austrian Filmprize 2022. In 2023 her Shortfilm "Land of Mountains" was awarded with Best Newcomer Award at Diagonale Filmfestival in Austria, followed by the Award for Best midlength Film aswell as Audience Award at the Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis in Germany 2024.
