Marta Balaga Returning to Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival, where his documentary short “Views of a Retired Night Porter” was awarded in 2006, Austrian helmer Andreas Horvath decided to focus on his fiction feature debut “Lillian” when addressing the participants of European Film Promotion’s Future Frames during an exclusive masterclass.
The showcase, now in its seventh edition, presents 10 young directors from Europe and their latest work, selected by the artistic team of KVIFF.Inspired by the true story of Lillian Alling, a Russian woman in New York who decided to walk back to her homeland in the 1920s, the film was borne out of Horvath’s restlessness. “I was at a film festival in Montreal and decided to go to Toronto.
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