Austrian Selection:

Import Export
A film by Ulrich Seidl, Austria 2005/06
(In German with English subtitles, 136 min.)

Ulrich Seidl's second feature film Import Export has been invited to 45 festivals winning two prizes since its premiere in the competition of the 60th Cannes Film Festival in May 2007. It tells two stories which move in diametrically opposed directions: one is about Olga, a nurse from deepest Ukraine, the other about Paul, an unemployed security guard from Vienna. Olga seeks her fortune in the West and ends up working as a cleaner in a geriatrics clinic in Austria, while Paul and his step-father wind up in the Ukraine looking for work and a meaningful life. Import Export is set in a real geriatrics clinic, a real paediatric hospital, a real Internet sex agency, in real Roma slums, in a real school for cleaners – and yet the action is pure fiction.
"Import Export is a disturbing, sometimes brilliant new film by Austrian film director Ulrich Seidl. It was very hard to watch, but I have the feeling I will need to see it again“. (New York Times, Manohla Dargis)
http://importexport.ulrichseidl.at/en/

November 09 | 7:00 pm | AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center
November 13 | 6:45 pm | AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center

AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910
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