Directed by: Michael Glawogger
Script: Michael Glawogger, Johannes Scocek
Producer: Erich Lackner
Production company: Lotus-Film
Cinematography: Wolfgang Thaler
Editing: Monika Willi
Music: Armin Pokorn

Format: 35 mm
Running time: 80'

Synopsis
Glawogger’s France, Here We Come! follows the Austrian national team through the 1998 World Cup, counterbalancing spectator hopes at home and abroad as his camera travels to Cameroon, Chile, and then Italy to view the matches as reflected in the expectant faces of Austria’s national enemies on the soccer pitch. Illustrating the workaday function of hope and faith in that which is well beyond the faithful’s control, France, Here We Come! is a companion to Seidl’s collection of confessional religious longings like Jesus, You Know of 2003—the films are also linked by their superlative cinematographer, Wolfgang Thaler, who has lucidly framed much of Seidl and Glawogger’s best work.

Awards and Festivals
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2006
Sao Paulo International Film Festival 2006
Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival 2006
Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival 2006
Pjã–Ngjang International Film Festival 2006
Indielisboa 2006. Paris International Documentary Film Festival 2006
Moskow International Film Festival 2006

Directors Biography
Michael Glawogger is a director, writer and cinematographer and his work in each of these roles displays a broad spectrum. Glawogger was born in Graz, Austria, in 1959. He is a traveling filmmaker. Not only does he literally journey around the world for his documentaries, he also moves back and forth between forms and genres, between photography and writing, between gentler and more forceful tones. He graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute and the Vienna Film Academy and has since worked as a director, writer, and cinematographer in Vienna, Bangkok, and Znojmo. His recent works range from the literary adaptation Kill Daddy Good Night (2009) and the quirky comedies Slugs (2004) and Contact High (2009) to his essayist documentaries Whore's Glory (2011), Megacities (2009) and Workingman's Death (2004).

Location and screening schedule: GRIÈ CINEMA, Tuesday, October 16th at 22.00