Eva-Maria works as a secretary at a teacher training college. A position she is very proud of. It was not easy to get this job, because she has been dependent on a wheelchair since her childhood due to spastic cerebral palsy.
However, Eva-Maria has never let herself be intimidated. She knows what she wants and how to get it. Without compromise, she wants to create the life she has always dreamed of. One of her biggest dreams: a child of her own. With the help of in vitro fertilization, she now wants to fulfil this wish for herself.
Supported by her family and accompanied by her assistants, she tackles “the child project”. But her situation is unknown territory for everyone. The peculiarities of her body present new and unfamiliar challenges to both medicine and her assistants. Documented by one of her assistants, this film provides an unusually intimate insight into a life beyond conventional family planning.
| Producer: |
Damjan Zupan |
| Director: |
Lukas Ladner |
| Script: |
Lukas Ladner |
| Editing: |
Lisa Zoe Geretschläger
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| Director of photography: |
Lukas Ladner, Gregor Perle |
Born in 1991 in Innsbruck. 2013-2017 Studied film and television directing at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF. DIY thespian with hands-on expertise in screenwriting, directing and editing. Border crosser between feature, documentary and experimental film. Very methodical. An idea is only good if it also has a function. Loves experimentation, but has great respect for the qualities of traditional narrative practices. Somehow everything is a three-act play.
Works (selection):
2021 – Eva-Maria (long documentary)
- DOK.fest München 2021
- Diagonale’21 (Award: Best Newcomer Film)
- 30. Filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
- Filmfestival Kitzbühel 2021
- DOKUDOC 2021 Maribor
- 38. Kasseler Dokfest
- UK Film Festival London 2021 (Award: Best Documentary Film)
2018 – Like Sun In An Empty Room (short film)
- Silicon Beach Film Festival 2019
- The Short Film Filmmakers Showcase 2019
- Los Angeles CineFest 2020 (Semi-Finalist)
2017 – Treibgut (short film)
- 27. Internationales Film Festival Innsbruck 2018
- 14. Provinziale Eberswalde
2014 – Ritter ohne Fehl und Adel (short documentary)
