Diagonale
Festival of Austrian Film
April 4–9, 2024, Graz

Film ProgramTimetable | Directors


Wednesday, 22.03.
18:00, Schubertkino 2
Friday, 24.03.
18:00, Schubertkino 2

LE FORMICHE DI MIDA

Innovative Cinema, AT/IT 2023, digital, 75 min, 22.3. OmdU / 24.3. OmeU

Edgar Honetschläger embarks on a mythological-philosophical search for new ways of nar-rating our relationship to nature. Assisting him in the process are talking ants, nymphs, farmers, and a narrating donkey who takes human striving on earth ad absurdum. In this way, the film not only finds fresh images for the major crises of our era, but also makes tangible a desire for different civilizational forms and value systems.  

Director: Edgar Honetschläger
Script: Edgar Honetschläger
Cast: Giancarlo Camurani, Ignazio Cancedda, Roberto Fia, Peppe Gnochetto, Lampino (Donkey), Elena Mosconi, Giovanna Mosconi, Renato Mosconi, Alessandro Twombly, Anna Teresa Rossini
Camera: Fabrizio Farroni
Editor: Thomas Woschitz, Edgar Honetschläger
Location Sound: Azzurra Stirpe
Music: Luca di Volo, Eleonora Tassinari
Sounddesign: Silvia Moraes
Production Design: Carlo Brignola
Costumes: Marlene Blumtritt
Additional Credits: GIANLUCA CAPPELLETTI gaffer RENATO CHIOCCA assistant director STEFANO DILI production assistant ARIANNA FERRI make up ANDREA ANTONIELLA animal manager
Producers: Edgar Honetschläger
Production: EDOKO INSTITUTE FILM PRODUCTION GMBH