FAMILY DINNER

By Peter HENGL

CAPRA FILM - as PROD

First film - Completed 2022

Overweight and insecure, 15-year old Simi spends Easter weekend with her famous nutritionist aunt. The hope is that it’ll help her get on a healthier track, but as the aunt’s family’s icy dynamics and an increasingly malevolent atmosphere leave Simi feeling uneasy, weight isn’t the only thing she’s

Festivals
& Awards

Tribeca 2022
Midnight
    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • First film, Horror
    • Countries
    • AUSTRIA
    • Languages
    • GERMAN
    • Budget
    • 1 - 3 M$
    • Duration
    • 97 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Peter HENGL
    • Synopsis
    • Tired of feeling down about her weight, plus-sized 15-year-old Simi heads to her aunt Claudia’s farm house for Easter weekend. Claudia is a popular nutritionist who’s written best-selling health books, so for Simi, spending a few days together could help change her diet and inspire weight loss. What should’ve been a nice holiday weekend with family, however, quickly reveals itself to be anything but. Simi’s cousin, Filipp, is curiously hostile towards her, while Filipp’s stepdad, Stefan, is curiously the opposite towards Simi, all while Claudia’s dietary guidance verges on becoming overly militant. What’s causing everyone to act so strangely and aggressively? The answers are even worse than Simi’s worst nightmares.