Closed for the Virus Break

Production Country: Austria
Running Time: 23mins
Year: 2025

March 2020: João has no one to spend the lockdown with. Alone in his studio-apartment, an HIV-positive gay man watches the empty streets of Vienna as his longing for connection clashes with his sense of responsibility. Stigma, sex, and solitude — shot on 16mm.

FILM CREW:
Director: Franz Quitt
Producer: Franz Quitt
Writer: Bruno Kratochvil
DOP: Laura Ettel
Editor: Franz Quitt, Martin Weiss
Sound Design: Franz Quitt, Martin Weiss
Composer: Manuel Cyrill, Erika Farina
Production Design: Uta Wiegele, Julia Christoph
Costume Design: Emily Gruicin
Hair & Makeup: Emese Torma
VFX: Boris Angelis

Cast: Luan de Lima, Thomas Höfner


FESTIVALS:
TBC