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Title: Jonah
Runtime: 13 min
Country: Austria | Italy
Director: Michael Maschina
Placement: Award of Excellence
Competition: March 31, 2018
Synopsis: A gut wrenching journey drawing parallels between refugees fleeing Austria in 1943 and refugees trying to reach Austria in 2015. Tied together by the parable of Jonah and the whale – a story which is common to both the Jewish and the Islamic culture , it is shot from the characters POV – the audience is an intimate part of the journey of hopes raised and destroyed.
