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An Accident

Angelika Spangel

Austria · 30'

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Synopsis

A series of startling accidents shakes a small village. Why did the man on the bench die? Why is nobody helping at the site of the car crash? Why does the farmer's son feel responsible for the death of the pigs? Everything is linked through guilt and shame, raising the question of where fiction ends and real harm begins.

Details

Direction
Angelika Spangel
Country
Austria
Runtime
30'

Direction

  • Portrait of the director of An Accident

Angelika Spangel

Angelika Spangel is an Austrian cinematographer and filmmaker. She studied Educational Sciences at the University of Vienna and then trained in cinematography and visual composition at the Vienna Film Academy, in Wolfgang Thaler's class, whom she assisted on numerous productions. Together with Sophia Wiegele she worked as cinematographer on the mid-length film Strangers in the Night, which premiered at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and was nominated for the Michael Ballhaus Award. An Accident is her first short film as a director.

São Paulo International Film Festival

16—27 SEP 2026

Admission is free to all screenings.

Support and partners

  • Centro Cultural São Paulo
  • Prefeitura de São Paulo — SP Cidade de Todas as Artes
  • 200 Anos de Amizade Brasil–Países Baixos
  • Reino dos Países Baixos
  • Acción Cultural Española — PICE
  • Spcine
  • EYE Filmmuseum
  • Instituto Cervantes
  • AIC — Academia Internacional de Cinema
  • Cinecolor Brasil

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