Bernhard Wenger’s directorial debut PEACOCK is one of the contenders of the 39^th Venice Settimana della Critica (August 28 to September 7, 2024). Wenger’s first feature film, starring Albrecht Schuch and Julia Franz Richter, was produced by Vienna-based NGF Geyrhalterfilm.

World Premiere
August 31 | 13.30 | Sala Perla

Friendship, status, civil courage. There is no social marker that can’t be scrubbed up very nicely for someone prepared to pay the My Companion fees. Matthias is the top performer at the agency. He expertly adopts a new identity for a few hours every day, acting the role of the educated companion at a concert, the exemplary son visiting from overseas or the dad in a pilot's uniform. But he’s helpless when it comes to simply being himself within his own four walls. Bernhard Wenger's feature film debut PEACOCK spans social surfaces and traces the fault lines between the real and the fake with satirical humour.

After rave reviews by the international press, Bernhard Wenger’s directorial debut PEACOCK took two of the independent jury awards:
·      Premio Bisato d’oro
·      Premio Fondazione FAI
Congrats to the director and the team of NGF Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion
 
Nader Saeivar’s SHAHED (THE WITNESS) co-produced by Golden Girls Filmproduction,  is the winner of the main award of the Orizzonti Extra section.