(2025, Austria, Argentina, 78')
Lucius Glantz (Willem Dafoe), longtime director of Vienna’s Intercontinental Hotel, fights to save his beloved establishment from an Argentine entrepreneur who has just acquired it and plans to demolish and rebuild it from scratch. What begins as a personal vendetta quickly turns into a battle of wills, dragging him into an escalating state of paranoia. His slow psychological unraveling starts to affect the entire environment: clogged pipes, malfunctioning clocks, and even the hotel’s famous soufflé refuses to rise. A dark comedy blending humor and contemporary themes, exploring class conflict, change, and modernity.
An Argentinian director (Buenos Aires, 1978). He studied film at ICP and the Tisch School of the Arts in New York. His films include Süden, Papirosen (BAFICI Best Film), and Kékszakállú, presented at Venice-Orizzonti and awarded the FIPRESCI Prize and the Bisato d’Oro. His work was selected by Artforum among the top ten films of 2016, and in 2017 the New Horizons Festival dedicated a retrospective to him. He is currently working on his new feature film, Electrocute.
