El lunar en su espalda - The Birthmark
The Birthmark

film type experimental film, documentary film Production Country Germany, Denmark, Mexico, Norway, Austria production year 2019 runtime 11'30 colour
screening format DCP aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16:9) sound format Dolby Surround languages Spanisch Subtitles Englisch, Deutsch
screening format Media File (ProRes, mp4, mov) aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16:9) sound format Dolby Surround languages Spanisch Subtitles Englisch, Deutsch

Consuelo’s daughter Victoria was murdered. This film visualises the mother’s inexpressible pain in blurry, abstract images, which become concrete only selectively in macro-recordings of fleshy scar tissue and threatening pointy spikes that emphatically drill into not only the viewers’ eyes, but also their bosom.

http://www.refreshingfilms.com/en/films/the-birthmark

director Bernhard Hetzenauer, Pia Ilonka Schenk Jensen Besetzung / Cast Gabriele Ivette Sandoval Torres Original-Filmmusik / Original Score Marco A. Luján Schnitt / Editing Bernhard Hetzenauer, Pia Ilonka Schenk Jensen Bildgestaltung / DOP Bernhard Hetzenauer, Pia Ilonka Schenk Jensen Produktion / Production Bernhard Hetzenauer, Pia Ilonka Schenk Jensen Drehbuch / Script Bernhard Hetzenauer, Pia Ilonka Schenk Jensen Tongestaltung / Sound Design Daniela López Guerrero, Francisco Hernández, Iván Ramos
Festivals
2019 FICM - Morelia International Film Festival, Mexico
2020 Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis, Saarbrücken, Germany
2020 St. Louis International Film Festival, USA
2020 Norwegian Short Film Festival, Grimstad, Norway
2020 International Short Film Festival Nijmegen, Netherlands
2020 Crossing Europe Filmfestival, Linz, Austria
2020 VIENNA SHORTS, Wien, Austria
2020 Internationales Filmfest Braunschweig, Germany
2020 FILMFEST DRESDEN - International Short Film Festival, Dresden, Germany
2020 Internationale Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg, Germany
2020 dotdotdot Open Air Kurzfilmfestival, Wien, Austria
2020 FIDBA - International Documentary Film Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2020 Shorts México - Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes de México, Mexico City, Mexico
2020 Seoul International Extreme-Short Image & Film Festival, Korea (Republic of)
2020 FILMZ - Festival des deutschen Kinos, Mainz, Germany
Production
  • Bernhard Hetzenauer
  • Schiwiese 18
  • 4048 Puchenau
  • Österreich
  • +43 650 9182121
Distribution
  • Lemonade Films
  • Marija Milovanovic
  • Zieglergasse 84
  • 1070 Wien
  • Österreich
  • +43 650 5341800
  • http://www.refreshingfilms.com

Bernhard Hetzenauer

Born in Innsbruck, he studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and at the HFBK University of Fine Arts Hamburg. His films have been screened in Germany and abroad and received various awards. He wrote the books DAS INNEN IM AUßEN and FACES OF ATHENS. He lives and works in Berlin, Mexico, and Austria.

Filmography
2007 Wann habe ich aufgehört, Dir meine Träume zu erzählen?
2007 Todos nos hacemos ilusiones - Wir alle haben Illusionen
2010 Lo que quedó guardado - Was unausgesprochen blieb
2012 Chez nous
2012 Die Briefe
2013 Über Gott, Alfi und Mexico
2013 El Buen Vivir - Shairy Quimbo
2013 Und in der Mitte der Erde war Feuer
2017 La sombra de un dios - A God's Shadow
2017 Faces of Athens
2018 Other Side of Love
2019 The Birthmark
2022 They Wanted to Be Loved
2023 Those Next to Us

Pia Ilonka Schenk Jensen

Born 1982 in Norway;
holds an MA in Visual Anthropology and a BA in Film and TV Production, as well as an art degree;
has directed several short and medium length films;
participated in the CPH:LAB of the CPH:DOX Film Festival;
lives and works in Mexico

Filmography
2013 Terapia
2014 Immersion
2014 Nightmare / Pesadilla
2014 Up-rooted
2014 Au Revoir México
2014 Little Short Film
2015 Regina
2017 Hungarian Lullaby / Ungarsk natt
2019 There are no victims in this town