Narrative Short, OV German with English Subtitles, 15’56”
In Post-Production

At 58, Dina has spent half her life helping others find work and now struggles to hold her own world together. At a counseling center for long-term unemployed women in Vienna, she listens, encourages, and fights for her clients, women worn down by a system that counts quotas, not people. Their dignity is always her priority, even as the institution around her makes true care nearly impossible. At home, her partner’s latest promise of a job collapses, and her daughter drifts away leaving Dina’s strength stretched thin as she begins to lose the ground beneath her.

with Martina Spitzer
Claudia Martini, Katharina Schmirl, Isabella Knöll, Andreas Radlherr, Doris Drechsel, uvm.

written by Barbara Wolfram & Paulus Wagner, directed by Barbara Wolfram
shot by Anna Viola Haderer, edited by Paul Eckhart, produced by Jakob Serdaroglu, Film Academy Vienna/ mdw

Based on extensive biographical interviews by Paulus Wagner.

FESTIVALS
before distribution, tbd 2026

Funded by:
City of Vienna Culture Ma-7, Film Academy Vienna, mdw

Created as part of the Ma-7 project: Building Bridges in Polarised Societies by means of arts and research. Film – Vienna – Working class milieu – Right-wing populism (2021-2025) at Film Academy Vienna/ mdw.