CHEERS

A man walks into a bar...
Sounds like a joke, but turns into serious danger very quickly.

A barkeeper is closing his bar, when a stranger enters. He orders some shots and tells the barkeeper an unsettling story. The Barkeeper realizes that the bar was not chosen randomly.

  • Shirin Hooshmandi
    Director
  • Shirin Hooshmandi, Adam Murry
    Writer
  • Shirin Hooshmandi
    Producer
  • Frank Panhans
    Key Cast
  • Deniz Baser
    Key Cast
  • Samira Ghahremani
    Director of Photography
  • Sophia Sixta
    Assistant Director
  • Malina Nwabounwor
    Line Producer
  • Albin Wildner
    Light
  • Esther Fischer
    Light
  • Felix Kalaivanan
    Light
  • Lukas Meissner
    Camera Assistant
  • Leander Leutzendorff
    Sound
  • Bernhard Wenger
    Sound
  • Julia Reiter
    Script/Continuity
  • Rupert Höller
    DIT
  • Albin Wildner
    Color Correction
  • Max Fürst
    Set Design
  • Project Type:
    Short, Student
  • Genres:
    Thriller, Drama
  • Runtime:
    5 minutes 49 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    November 1, 2016
  • Production Budget:
    0 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Austria
  • Country of Filming:
    Austria
  • Language:
    German
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital HD
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1:1,78
  • Film Color:
    Black & White
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes
  • Genrenale
    Berlin
    Germany
    February 14, 2017
    Germany
    Nomination Best Film, Best Actor
  • 12 Months Film Festival
    Online
    December 1, 2016
    2nd Best Fiction
  • Internationale Kuzfilmtage Oberhausen
    Oberhausen
    Germany
    May 15, 2017
  • River Film Festival
    Padua
    Italy
    June 16, 2017
    Italy
Distribution Information
  • Filmszene Graz
    Country: Austria
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Shirin Hooshmandi

Shirin Hooshmandi
Born 1991 in Graz, Austria
Student of the Vienna Filmacademy

After some years in theatre, getting some insight on directing work as an assistant director, Shirin began to work on film sets. Some years and various projects later, working as a production assistant she started to produce short films on her own. 2012 she founded the association “Filmszene Graz” to work together with independent filmmakers in Austria.
2014 she applied for a study at the Vienna Filmacademy und is currently studying production management.
Since 2016 she works as an independent film producer and realizes advertisement, and short films (live action, documentary and animation)

CHEERS is her directing debut film.

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Director Statement

The short film CHEERS is the result of a course, I took at film school in my second year. As a student of the production management study we are allowed to make a film by our own, the get an idea of directing work.
The whole class had to build one set, in which every student had to write and shoot a film. The challenge of making this film was that we had only one shooting day with no chance for extra time.

It was hard to find a story, which can be shot in eight hours only, especially when the team is not very well experienced. Eight hours for light setup, shooting the entire film and do the extra sound recording. A really tough challenge!

The idea CHEERS was born some years ago at an international film workshop. Adam Murry had the main idea, and I jumped in. We never had the opportunity to realize the film until we decided to build a bar in the studio.

I liked the idea to make a film, telling a story in a minimalistic way without actually showing the story, but following the classical three act structure. It was some kind of experiment, and the university was the best place to try.

-Shirin Hooshmandi