Celestine
AT 2020, 17 min.
A conservative and old pensioner tries to seduce a young and graceful woman named Celestine who lives next door and is his tenant. He causes a water pipe burst in her apartment and offers her one of his rooms to stay overnight. Unexpectedly, the same water pipe burst happens in another apartment. Celestine makes the same offer to the romantic and dreamy young Jonas who then also moves in. Both men fight for the same woman.
Cast: Peter Moucka, Rita Radinger, Max Konrad,
Rafael Wagner and Marco Otoya
Written, Directed by Denis Pejovic
Director of Photography: Dominic Eder-Smigura
Sound Recording and Mixing: Octavio Varela Martinez
Production Manager: Irene Dragaschnig,
Production Assistant: Alena Morel
Edited by Dominic Eder-Smigura and Denis Pejovic
Times Ängste (Timea ́s Anxieties)
AT 2020, 14 min.
After a break-up, a frantic young woman has to face her fears and compulsive anxieties. When a mysterious man appears and starts haunting her, only her faithful friend Leonhard tries to help her.
Cast: Christina Jägersberger, Maximilian Herzogenrath and Bernhard Kemminger
Written, Directed by Denis Pejovic
Director of Photography: Dominic Eder-Smigura
Sound Recording: Felix Robin Braune
Sound Mixing: Octavio Varela Martinez
Production Manager: Irene Dragaschnig,
Edited by Dominic Eder-Smigura and Denis Pejovic
AT 2020, 8 min.
Schon Immer ein Vater (Always a Father)
An old and lonely cabdriver visits his daughter Anna and tries to reconnect with her.
Cast: Peter Moucka, Verena Teresa Uyka
Written, Directed by Denis Pejovic
Director of Photography: Dominic Eder-Smigura
Sound Recording and Mixing: Octavio Varela Martinez
Production Manager: Irene Dragaschnig
Production Assistant: Alena Morel
Edited by Dominic Eder-Smigura, Denis Pejovic
Zwei Schwestern (Two Sisters)
AT 2020, 21 Min.
Two sisters reunite after years apart. Two opposing views of the father collide and each one defends a different truth about the deceased parent. In the meantime, they spot a mysterious object in one of the rooms. But they find themselves unable to uncover it.
Cast: Ines Schiller, Verena Teresa Uyka
Written, Directed by Denis Pejovic
Director of Photography: Dominic Eder-Smigura
Gaffer: Julian Rusche
Sound Recording and Sound Mixing: Octavio Varela Martinez
Production Manager: Irene Dragaschnig,
Production Assistant: Luca Deutinger
Edited by Milenka Tuchacek, Dominic Eder-Smigura,
and Denis Pejovic
Screenings / Awards:
Fünf Seen Film Festival
Gauting, Starnberg
Germany
World Premiere
Official Selection
International Film Festival Cologne
Cologne
Germany
Nominated for Best Acting
Das Kartenhaus (A House Of Cards)
An overstrained woman has to spend time with her 11 year-old daughter Anna but faces difficulties with her role as a mother.
Cast: Verena Teresa Uyka, Julia Pointner
Written, Directed by Denis Pejovic
Director of Photography: Dominic Eder-Smigura
Sound Recording and Sound Mixing: Octavio Varela Martinez
Set Manager: Irene Dragaschnig
Production Assistant: Luca Deutinger
Make Up: Elisabeth Ruhnau
Edited by Dominic Eder-Smigura, Denis Pejovic
Directors Statement:
It is a film about maternal love and parental neglect.
The mother, played by Verena Teresa Uyka, has always been in a kind of emergency state for me. She has to take care of the child and also run the bookstore, and at the same time she tries to love her child. But the child is perceived by both parents as an object of representation.
As a mother, she is the official issuing point for love and this is also expected of her. As soon as she focuses -"Now I'm in the role of a mother“ - everything is perfect. But the moment this focus is lost because something else gets her attention, everything collapses like a house of cards. That is why the metaphor of the house of cards is there at the end. And it is about her search for this love and her attempt and at the same time, the failure and the maintenance of this feeling.
Screenings / Awards:
2020 Southern Arizona Independent Film Festival
Wilcox, Arizona
United States
Official Selection
2020 Tuzla Film Festival
Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnian Premiere
Official Selection
2020 Linz International Short Film Festival
Linz, Austria
Austrian Premiere
Official Selection
AT 2020, 9 min
Die Bühne (The Stage)
AT 2019, 9 min.
After a theatrical performance, two actors have to say goodbye not only to their long-standing stage but also to each other.
Cast: Christina Jägersberger, Maximilian Herzogenrath
Written, Directed by Denis Pejovic
Director of Photography: Dominic Eder-Smigura
Gaffer: Julian Rusche
Sound Recording and Mixing: Octavio Varela Martinez
Make Up: Elisabeth Ruhnau
Edited by Dominic Eder-Smigura, Denis Pejovic
Vorhaben (An Intention)
AT 2019, 6 Min.
A man tries to get together with a woman.
Cast: Julia Pointner, Bernhard Kemminger
Written, Directed by Denis Pejovic
Director of Photography: Dominic Eder-Smigura
Sound Mixing: Octavio Varela Martinez
Production Assistant: Alena Morel
Edited by Dominic Eder-Smigura, Denis Pejovic
FID. Für Immer Dein (For Ever Yours)
AT 2019, 15 Min.
An introverted young man tries to get rid of his memories of a woman.
Cast: Max Konrad, Verena Teresa Uyka, Marco Otoya
and Selina Ströbele
Directed by Denis Pejovic, Idea by Denis Pejovic
Written by Elisabetha Pejcinoska
Director of Photography: Dominic Eder-Smigura
Gaffer: Rafael Gütl
Sound Recording: Stefan Thenmayer
Sound Mixing: Octavio Varela Martinez
Production Assistant: Liza Enzinger
Edited by Dominic Eder-Smigura, Denis Pejovic
