THE THIRD OPTION

DIE DRITTE OPTION

By Thomas FÜRHAPTER

AUSTRIAN FILMS - as PROMO

First film - Completed 2017


Festivals
& Awards

CPH:DOX 2017
Competition Dox:Award
    • Year of production
    • 2017
    • Genres
    • First film, Social issues, Documentary
    • Countries
    • AUSTRIA
    • Languages
    • GERMAN
    • Duration
    • 78 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Thomas FÜRHAPTER
    • Writer(s)
    • Thomas FÜRHAPTER
    • Producer(s)
    • Johannes ROSENBERGER (NAVIGATOR FILM)
    • Synopsis
    • What do you do when you find out that your unborn child is disabled? Thomas Fürhapter takes this question and develops a complex filmic essay: The Third Option examines individual destinies in the age of prenatal screening and biopolitics from a radical contemporary and socio-political viewpoint. The film peels away the various thematic layers to reveal the core questions of birth, ethics and norms – and thus transforms an issue only affecting a small number of people into a matter that concerns us all.