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Manuel Wetscher's debut feature film Eklipse to premiere at Venice Film Festival
Inspired by the director's childhood, the film explores the stigma of HIV/AIDS in the 1990s through the eyes of an Austrian teenager.
The short version
- Austrian filmmaker Manuel Wetscher's feature film debut, Eklipse, will hold its world premiere on September 5 in the Horizons section of the 83rd Venice Film Festival.
- The movie is highly autobiographical, drawing from Wetscher's own childhood experience when the details surrounding his father's death from AIDS in the 1990s were hidden from him.
- Set in the Austrian Alps, the film stars Moritz Hohlrieder and Finley Brown as teenagers navigating family secrets, social isolation, and the taboos of the era.
Key facts
- Manuel Wetscher's debut feature, Eklipse, is scheduled to premiere in the Horizons section of the 83rd Venice Film Festival on September 5.[The Hollywood Reporter]
- The film is inspired by Wetscher's personal experience of having his family withhold the truth about his father's death from AIDS during the 1990s.[The Hollywood Reporter]
- The plot follows a teenager named Tomy, whose mother hides the reason for his father's hospitalization, and his friend Chris, who reacts with fear after learning the father has AIDS.[The Hollywood Reporter]
- The film stars Moritz Hohlrieder and Finley Brown, and was co-written by Wetscher and Bernhard Jarosch.[The Hollywood Reporter]
- Eklipse was produced by Austria's Eutopiafilm and Italy's Albolina Film, with global sales being managed by Films Boutique.[The Hollywood Reporter]
Sources
- In ‘Eklipse,’ a Teen Faces Silence and Rejection After His Father Gets “the Gay Disease” (Exclusive Clip)The Hollywood Reporter metered