Project Detail

Club Zero

Synopsis

A charismatic teacher joins an elite boarding school and introduces a new subject to students she calls “conscious eating”. She forms a strong bond with five students. Under her lead, the teenage students begin to challenge social norms by reducing their food consumption, until things begin to take a dangerous turn.
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2023 - Competition - World premiere
Official Selection Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2023

Details

Year
2023
Type of project
Features
Running time
110 min
Director
Jessica Hausner
Producer
Philippe Bober, Mike Goodridge, Johannes Schubert, Bruno Wagner
Co-Producer
Per Damgaard Hansen, Clemens Köstlin
Executive Producer
Barth Brosseau, Kristin Irving, Alex C. Lo, Eva Yates, Vladimir Zemtsov
Editor
Karina Ressler
Screenwriter
Géraldine Bajard, Jessica Hausner
Director of Photography
Martin Gschlacht
Production Designer
Beck Rainford
Composer
Markus Binder
Principal cast
Mia Wasikowska, Mathieu Demy, Elsa Zylberstein, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Amir El-Masry, Camilla Rutherford

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Production Status

Production Company

Austria, UK, Germany, France, Denmark co-production

A Coop99 (AT), Coproduction Office (FR), ARTE (FR), Club Zero (UK), Essential Filmproduktion Gmbh (DE), Gold Rush Films (UK), Paloma Productions (DK), Parisienne (FR), The Danish Film Institute Archive production (DK), Turkish Radio & Television [TRT] (TR), ZDF Enterprises (DE), ZDF/Arte (DE), Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen [ZDF] (DE), Österreichischer Rundfunk [ORF] (AT) production

With support from Austrian Film Institute (AT), BBC Film (UK), Danish Film Institute [DFI] (DK), Doha Film Institute (QA), Filmstandort Austria [FISA] (AT), ORF (AT), Obala Art Centar (BA), TRT 1 Türk Sinemasi (TR), Vienna Film Financing Fund (AT), ZDF Studios (DE)

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