Directed by: Michael Glawogger
Script: Michael Glawogger
Producer: Erich Lackner, Rolf Schmid
Production company: Lotus Film, Fama Film
Cinematography: Wolfgang Thaler
Editing: Andrea Wagner

Format: 35 mm
Running time: 90'

Synopsis
Bombay, Mexico City, Moscow, New York: seductive yet repellent monsters. The contradiction insinuates itself into the daily lives of those who populate theses megacities. In 12 chapters the film tells the stories of Shankar the bioscope man, Modesto the chicken feet seller, Babu Khan the color sifter, Nestor the rubbish collector, of the street kids Oleg, Borja, Kolya and Misha, Cassandra the actress, Larissa the crane driver and Tony the hustler. Day in, day out they all set about their struggle for survival with ingenuity, intelligence and dignity. And they all share a single fantasy: the dream of a better life.

Awards and Festivals
São Paulo International Film Festival 1998 - Best Documentary Award
Viennale 1998 - Vienna Film Award
San Francisco International Film Festival 1999 - Golden Spire Award
International Film Festival Vancouver 1999 - NFB Award for Best Documentary
Arsenal Film Festival Riga 2000 – Award For Best Director
CineEco International Environmental Film and Video Festival 2002 - Environmental Anthropology Award and Best Documentary Award

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, Thursday, October 18th at 22.00