Gina

Program:

Molodist Teen Screen

Year:

2024

Country:

Austria

Genre:

Fiction

Duration:

100'

Nine-year-old Gina wants nothing more than a real family, but her mother Gitte struggles with the day-to-day life as a single parent of 3 children – and a fourth is on its way. Too often Gitte seeks refuge in excessive parties where she can dance and forget about her failings as a mother. With alcohol as her constant companion, she risks losing the one thing that is keeping her alive: her children. But Gina doesn’t give up and fights for what has been in disarray for generations: family stability, a climb out of the spiral of poverty, neglect, lovelessness and lack of education. A female three-generation family portrait from the perspective of a nine-year-old girl who doesn’t accept that her fate is predetermined and only depends on where you are born into.

Schedule

Ulrike Kofler

Ulrike Kofler was born in 1974 in Innsbruck, Austria and is an Austrian film editor, director and screenwriter. In 1997, she graduated in photography at the „Höhere Graphische Lehranstalt“ in Vienna. Afterwards, she studied film editing at the Film Academy Vienna. Between 2008 and 2012, Kofler successfully completed the postgraduate studies Film and TV at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. Her graduation film WIR FLIEGEN, which she wrote and directed, was awarded with several awards. She is also responsible for numerous video installations for theatrical performances. Her feature film debut as a writer and director WHAT WE WANTED (2019) was chosen by the Professional Association of Film and Music Austria as the Austrian entry for the Academy Awards 2021. As an editor, she has worked on films by directors such as Josef Hader and Michael Kreihsl. She shares a long-lasting partnership with Marie Kreutzer, most recently Ulrike Kofler edited Kreutzer’s historical drama CORSAGE.

Filmography: Gina (2024), Sexuell verfügbar (2024), Was wir wollten (2020), Wir fliegen (2013)

Creative team

Director

Ulrike Kofler

Screenplay

Ulrike Kofler

Camera

Robert Oberrainer

Editing

Bettina Böhler

Production design

Gerald Freimuth