Private Project

GET LOST LUCA

GET LOST LUCA, tells the story of a drifting 27-year-old who leaves her home behind and sets off for the south in a converted T4. After a summer at her aunt’s place that consisted of nothing but standstill, Luca leaves everything behind. But the solitude on the road doesn't last long. Suddenly, a lost friendship resurfaces in her life. At first, it’s just a vague presence, then a familiar voice, until her former best friend finally begins to truly speak with her. As the miles pass by, the silence between them breaks, exposing the cracks of a friendship that seemed long gone.

  • Leon Moses Fasthuber
    Director
    (Keine) Träume unterm Sternendach
  • Leon Moses Fasthuber
    Writer
  • Leon Moses Fasthuber
    Producer
  • Karoline Lehner
    Key Cast
    "Luca"
  • Lisa Marie Sophie Vorlaufer
    Key Cast
    "Saskia"
  • Peta Klotzberg
    Key Cast
    "Mira"
  • Luca Horak
    Director of Photography
  • Sarah Schleifer
    1st AD
  • Lejla Mulaosmanovic
    2nd AD
  • Vic Däullary
    Unit Manager
  • Oskar Gubo
    1st AC
  • Leo Daublebsky
    2nd AC
  • Jana Rudelstorfer
    Production Design
  • Freya Topitz
    Production Design
  • Lejla Mulaosmanovic
    Production Design
  • Martina Giordano
    Productionassistant
  • Lejla Mulaosmanovic
    Productionassistant
  • Oliver Parsch
    Sound Mixer
  • Joan Rodilla
    Editor
  • Moritz Wegscheider
    Colorist
  • Romana Fasthuber
    Catering
  • Karl Bittenauer
    Catering
  • Martina Giordano
    Unit Photography
  • Nikita Zihlin
    Extras
  • Andrea Domenig
    Extras
  • Ingeborg Gritznig
    Extras
  • Karl Bittenauer
    Extras
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    FAHR ZUR HÖLLE LUCA
  • Project Type:
    Feature, Short
  • Genres:
    Roadmovie, Drama, Coming-of-Age
  • Runtime:
    18 minutes 59 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 4, 2026
  • Production Budget:
    2,900 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Austria
  • Country of Filming:
    Austria
  • Language:
    German
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2.53:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Leon Moses Fasthuber

Leon Moses Fasthuber grew up in Wels (Upper Austria) and discovered his passion for film while studying web and multimedia design at school. He gained his first experience in the LOST workshop before spending a year volunteering in Ecuador after graduating from high school, where he developed a film workshop with young people. Back in Austria, he worked at the Gartenbaukino cinema in Vienna. Leon has been involved with the YOUKI Festival since 2023 and made his directorial and screenwriting debut in 2024 with (Keine) Träume unterm Sternendach (No Dreams in the Starry Vault) as part of the Medien Kultur Haus's Artist in Residence programme.
Today, he produces short films together with friends and acquaintances. Since the summer of 2025, he has also been working in the advertising industry, supporting film productions in advertising shoots.

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Director Statement

GET LOST LUCA is no spectacle. It’s a wake-up call for everything we usually bury: responsibilities, the gut-punch of admitting a mistake, and the simple, agonizing difficulty of just staying present.

I wanted to tell a story about a woman in her late twenties standing between everything and nothing. It’s a story about guilt, but not in a grand, moral sense. I’m talking about that personal, slippery feeling that rots inside you without making a sound. Luca carries this weight without being able to name it. She doesn't follow a hero’s journey; her path is made of detours. For me, that is where the truth lies: not in the solution, but in the act of finally looking.

The inspiration for this film is deeply personal. The van you see on screen belongs to my parents and has been a part of my life for quite some time now. I’ve had my own bouts with escapism, and there is no place more spontaneous or real to disappear than in our Bulli, "Merlin." We named him after our late cat, and I desperately wanted to use him as a motif to immortalize him on screen.

Escapism has always fascinated me, not as a dramatic flight, but as something mundane and everyday. Withdrawing, not texting back, vanishing. We all know what that feels like. In "FAHR ZUR HÖLLE LUCA", I wanted to break that cycle of running away. This film is about the realization that the real journey isn't measured in miles, but in the willingness to face your own history and the ghost of a lost friendship.