The Opposite of Eternity

The Opposite of Eternity tells the story of Anna who tries to get her mother into the room where her father is dying so they can be together one last time. But her mother runs away. She runs and runs since hours and with her time is running out.

Anna has the difficult task of accompanying her mother Eva during the slow death of her father. She wants to gather the family one last time in one room. While she seems to almost break down at this task, her mother finds one reason after another not to enter the room next to the bedside of her dying husband. But Anna doesn't give up and tries to put an end to her mother's flight from reality.

  • Joshua Jádi
    Director
  • Joshua Jádi
    Writer
  • Dominic Spitaler
    Producer
    Jimmie by Jesper Ganslandt
  • Anna Posch
    Key Cast
    "Anna"
    Chucks
  • Sonja Romei
    Key Cast
    "Eva"
    Time of the Wolf (M. Haneke), M – A City Searches for a Murderer (Series)
  • Erni Mangold
    Key Cast
    "Grandmother"
    Before Sunrise, Inspector Rex
  • Paul Matic
    Key Cast
    "Father"
    Babylon Berlin, Berlin Station
  • Albert Car
    Director of Photography
  • Marius Mertens
    Sound
  • Lea Sorgo
    Editing
    Favorites (Cannes 2019)
  • Amiran Dolidze
    Script Consultant
    The Animal (Locarno 2019)
  • Wolfgang Widerhofer
    Script Consultant
    Producer, Editor of films by Nikolaus Geyrhalter and Markus Schleinzer among many others
  • Bernhard Maisch
    Mixing Engineer
    Toni Erdmann, Touch Me Not
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Das Gegenteil von Ewigkeit
  • Project Type:
    Short, Student
  • Runtime:
    15 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    January 31, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    5,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Austria
  • Country of Filming:
    Austria
  • Language:
    German
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    4:3
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Filmakademie Wien
  • Diagonale Graz
    Graz
    Austria
  • VIS Vienna Shorts
    Vienna
    Austria
    Online World Premiere
  • Festival Of Nations
    Lenzing
    Austria
    Live Screening World Premiere
    Best Student Film
  • Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival
    Providence, RI
    United States
    Semi-Finalist
  • Linz International Film Festival
    Linz
    Austria
    November 17, 2020
    Best Austrian Film & Best Cinematography
  • Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis
    Saarbrücken
    Germany
    January 17, 2021
    German Premiere
  • Friss Hús Budapest International Short Film Festival
    Budapest
    Hungary
  • Akbank Short Film Festival
    Istanbul
    Turkey
  • Bundesfestival Junger Film
    St. Ingbert
    Germany
  • Aswan IWFF
    Aswan
    Egypt
Director Biography - Joshua Jádi

Joshua Jádi is a German-Hungarian filmmaker. He studied Psychology & Psychoanalysis before turning his eye to filmmaking.
Since 2016 he studies Directing & Screenwriting at the Filmacademy Vienna. His teachers include Michael Haneke, Götz Spielmann & Ulrich Seidl.
SUNDAY 11 A.M. his first semester documentary was screened at EMAF 2019.
In 2019 Joshua Jádi was invited to take part in the Summer School of the Locarno Academy.

Additional to that he has an intense working relationship with a group of young Georgian filmmakers. Among them Amiran Dolidze whose short film TSKHOVELI was screened at Locarno 2019 and two time Locarno participant Davit Pirtskhalava who won the Golden Pardino in 2015.

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Director Statement

I remembered a scene from my childhood. A woman ran away from the death of her husband. This image of her running stuck in my head. Running away from something that will go on anyway. Just without you. Like a wish to twist reality.
It wasn’t just her. I feel like the world I live in has marginalized death and so I decided to place death at the center of my film.
Though not to make a film about death. But rather a film about the ones who are left behind. The ones who will continue their life.
This is a film about three generations of women and how each of them deals with the approaching death of a loved one.