Eat Sleep Die
Director: Gabriela Pichler
Sweden | Swedish, Montenegrin & Serbian
2012 | 100min | Colour
Subtitles: English
Sunday, Nov 2
Club House 1, 1:30 PM
Ever wondered who packs the fresh plastic-sealed salad you are having for lunch? Who are the people getting laid off from their factory jobs in the small rural towns? Ready for a visit to another kind of Sweden? When the forceful young Muslim Swedish/Balkan factory worker Raša, who has a no-shit, never-say-die attitude to life, loses her job, she faces unemployment. With no high school diploma, no job — but her boots deeply stained with the mud of the small town she grew up in — Raša finds herself on a collision course with society and a comical world of bureaucracy and contradicting values and expectations. First time actors play all of the main characters in the film.
Gabriela Pichler
Gabriela was born to working class parents in a segregated suburb of Stockholm. Her Bosnian and Austrian born parents later moved the family out to the provincial countryside where she grew up. To attend the School of Film Directing in Gothenburg, Gabriela left her stable job at a cookie factory. In 2009, her graduation project, the short film “Scratches”, was awarded the Swedish national film award “Guldbaggen”. Internationally, the film won several awards, among them “Best Film” at Fresh Film Fest in Karlovy Vary. Gabriela Pichler’s films focus on social class and cultural identity. Her work searches for authenticity and the unexpected in everyday life and often incorporates amateurs. “Eat Sleep Die” is her debut feature film.
Credits
Director: Gabriela Pichler
Producer: China Åhlander
Screenwriter: Gabriela Pichler
Cinematographer: Johan Lundborg
Editor: Gabriela Pichler, Johan Lundborg
Music: Andreas Svensson
Production Company: Anagram Produktion AB
Cast: Nermina Lukač, Milan Dragišić, Jonathan Lampinen, Peter Fält, Ružica Pichler
Festival Appearances & Awards
International Film Festival of Women in Salé, 2013 – Special Jury Prize
Golden Rooster and Hundred Flower Film Festival, 2013 – Best Actress
Sguardi Altrove Film Festival, Milan, 2013 – Best Film & Special Mention to Nermina Lukač
Festival Premiers Plans D’Angers, 2013 – Grand Prix Du Jury & Best Actress
The Guldbagge Awards, 2013 – Best Screenplay, Best Picture, Best Director & Best Actress in Leading Role
Amiens International Film Festival, 2012 – Best Actress & Special Mention from the Jury
Stockholm International Film Festival, 2012 – Viasat Film Rising Start Nermina Lukač
Sevilla European Film Festival, 2012 – Best Film & Best Actress
AFI Fest, Los Angeles, 2012 – Grand Jury Award
Nordic Film Days Lübeck, 2012 – NDR Film Prize
Zurich Film Festival, 2012 – Special Mention to Nermina Lukač
Venice International Film Festival, 2012 – Audience Award