Scanorama

November 5 - 22

2026

Open My Festival
Crossing Europe

Macondo

1 hr. 38 min. | Drama | N/A

Ramasan has a lot of responsibility for an 11-yearold. In traditional Chechen society, he is now considered the man of the house in charge of his mother and two younger sisters. His world is now centred in Macondo, a tough ethnic neighbourhood in the industrial suburbs of Vienna.

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Sudabeh Mortezai

Sudabeh Mortezai

Sudabeh Mortezai was born in Germany, in 1968, to Iranian parents. She grew up in Tehran and in Vienna where she studied theatre, film and media science. Between 2002 and 2003 she studied film at the University of California in Los Angeles and then made a number of short films and documentaries. She is known for her documentary films Children of the Prophet (2006) and In the Bazaar of Sexes (2009). Macondo is her debut feature film.
Languages
German
Subtitles
Lithuanian, English
Produced
2014: Austria

Film information

Director
Sudabeh Mortezai
Screenplay
Sudabeh Mortezai
Cinematography
Klemens Hufnagl
Cast
Ramasan Minkailov, Kheda Gazieva, Aslan Elbiev
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