Those Next to Us

We follow the smuggling route of Mexican migrant Germán López Rosales, who traveled from the US border town of Laredo to San Antonio locked up inside a tractor-trailer.

Director's Biography
Bernhard Hetzenauer (*1981, Innsbruck, Tyrol) grew up and lives in Upper Austria. He works as a filmmaker, media artist, and writer. His films have been shown at Telluride, Ann Arbor, Max Ophüls Preis, Viennale, Sheffield, 21er Haus, Künstlerhaus Wien, or Austrian Cultural Forum New York, among others.
Director's Filmography (Selection)
Those Next to Us (2023) - They Wanted to Be Loved (2022; CE23) - El lunar en su espalda (The Birthmark, 2019, co-directed with Pia Ilonka Schenk Jensen; CE20) - La sombra de un dios (A God's Shadow, 2017; CE18) - Lo que quedo guardado - Was unausgesprochen blieb (What Remained Unspoken, 2010; CE10)
Local Artists 2024
Bernhard Hetzenauer
Austria / Mexico / Germany / Switzerland 2023
color
31 minutes
Spanish
OV with English subtitles

Screenings / Tickets

LOCAL ARTISTS 4 - CLOSE TO HOME, 71 min
Film guest(s) present: Bernhard Hetzenauer (Director)


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Screenplay Bernhard Hetzenauer, Germán López Rosales
Cinematography Bernhard Hetzenauer
Editing André Siegers, Gabriela Sandoval Torres
Sound/Sounddesign Mariángela Martínez Restrepo, Gabriela Sandoval Torres, Jochen Jezussek
With Germán López Rosales
Producer(s) Bernhard Hetzenauer, Irene Hetzenauer, Marko Mijatovic
Production
Bernhard Hetzenauer & grundstudio
World Sales
sixpackfilm
World Premiere
Telluride Film Festival 2023

LOCAL ARTISTS 4 - CLOSE TO HOME, 71 min
THOSE NEXT TO US
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