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CLEANING & CLEANSING

Austria / 2024 / 91'

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CLEANING & CLEANSING

The film offers a meticulous and haunting meditation on modern society’s obsession with purity, order, and control. Through a series of observational vignettes, it examines spaces and practices where physical cleanliness intersects with psychological and ideological cleansing. From sterile corporate environments to ritualistic purification ceremonies, the film reveals the invisible systems that dictate how we live, work, and relate to one another. With precise cinematography and a minimalistic narrative approach, the director challenges us to reflect on the boundaries between hygiene, surveillance, and conformity and as the film unfolds like a quiet, unsettling symphony of routines and regulations, he also invites us to question what lies beneath the surface of our polished realities.

Director: Thomas Fürhapter

Script: Thomas Fürhapter

Photography: Judith Benedikt, Manuel Zauner, Thomas Fürhapter

Editing: Thomas Fürhapter

Sound: Joseph Nikolussi, Andreas Hamza

Music: Xing Li, VOCES8, and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy

Production: Zhao Weina

Selected Filmography:

  • Zusammenleben / Living Together (2022)
  • Die dritte Option / The Third Option (2017)
  • Michael Berger. Eine Hysterie / Michael Berger. A Hysteria (2010)
  • Das Gelb ohne Zebra / The Yellow Without Zebra (2004)

Festivals & Awards:
Madrid Indie Film Festival – Best Feature Documentary, Spain (2025), The Doc Screenings IDFF – Best Feature Documentary, Georgia (2025), FIPADOC, France (2025), Ji.hlava IDFF – Award for Original Approach, Czech Republic (2024)

Screening:
August 22 / 21:00 / Kurshumli an

Tickets:

  • Buy tickets for live screening HERE.

Слични филмови

SOIL AND WINGS
THE HELSINKI EFFECT
THE PROPAGANDIST
PUNK UNDER THE COMMUNIST REGIME
FAVORITEN
THE MOUNTAIN WON’T MOVE
WISHING ON A STAR
COEXISTENCE, MY ASS!
SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT

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