«There’s an us and a them.»
The filmmaker Olga Kosanović was born in Austria, where she has always lived. She only left for vacations and – like
many young Europeans – to study abroad. But when she applied for Austrian citizenship, the authorities calculated that she’d
spent two months too long out of the country. She was stunned to discover that she didn’t belong in the land she had always
called home. Her feature film debut FAR FROM BEING LIPIZZANS records with considerable humour the bureaucratic process of
naturalization and reflects on the factual and fictional elements involved in determining where someone belongs.