Import/Export - Trailer

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// Presented as part of January's Teutonic Cinema Series //

Ulrich Seidl / 2005, Cannes, BAFICI, BFI London, Göteborg, Hong Kong, IndieLisboa, Karlovy Vary, Munich, NYT Critics' Pick, Reykjavik, Rotterdam, São Paulo, Toronto, Transilvania, Vienna / 136'

Olga lives in Ukraine with her mother and young child, working by day as a nurse. This occupation, however, does not pay her enough to survive—she thus flees for Austria, where she hopes she can forge a better life as a nursing home attendant. Paul charts the inverse trajectory, departing Austria for the East after he is terminated from his job as a security guard. Here he encounters a desolate world not unlike the one he left behind, where he will nonetheless search for meaning.

A bracing exploration of the intersections of power, capital, and violence within the chasm separating Eastern and Western Europe, Import/Export interrogates the spectator's position in these hierarchies through its obfuscation of the boundaries separating fiction and reality, and its unremitting cinematic gaze. Ulrich Seidl's second narrative feature premiered at Cannes, Rotterdam, Hong Kong, and IndieLisboa, where it won a Special Mention. Import/Export is also a New York Times Critics' Pick.

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