UNICORN CARRIERBAG

Synopsis


When her husband's hunting lease depends on a smuggled deer antler, Petra crosses the border with her
daughter and granddaughter. Only to discover the three women are really carrying the weight of fragile
masculinity.

Director: Matteo Sanders

Matteo Sanders, born in 1989 in Innsbruck, has been studying directing and screenwriting at the Film Academy Vienna since 2017, first under Michael Haneke and later Barbara Albert. In 2023, his short film Am Grat (On the Edge) reached the semifinals of the Student Academy Awards (Student Oscars). His short documentary 33’ 66° was selected for the VOD platform of the Doc Around Europe Network. In 2024, he completed the essay film trilogy Farewell with artist Julia Haugeneder, which was screened at the Austrian Cultural Forum London and the Neue Galerie Graz. In January 2025, his short film Taschengeld (Pocket Money) premiered at the Max Ophüls Preis Film Festival.

Producer: Julia Haugeneder

Julia Haugeneder is an austrian visual artist and filmmaker. She works mostly collaboratively in changing constellations and shows works in public spaces as well as gallery and museum spaces. Influenced by a background of many years in academia, she deals with questions of social production, including reproduction. She studied art history, theater, film and media studies as well as philosophy in Vienna and
Rotterdam. In 2011, she transferred to the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and completed her studies there in 2019 - at times also at the Central Saint Martins art school in London (UK). She was nominated for the Dagmar Chobot Sculpture Prize 2020 and the Kardinal König Kunstpreis (2023) and received, among others, the „Anerkennungspreis bildende Kunst“ (Lower Austria), Startstipendium für bildende Kunst from BMKÖS (2021) , the AiR Chicago - Artist in Residence Lower Austria (2022) and AiR London + Athens Bkmoes (2024). Julia Haugeneder has already had numerous exhibition participations in museums and institutions as well as solo exhibitions in galleries, such as MUSA - Startgalerie, Vienna (2019) | Projektraum Victor Bucher, Vienna (2020) | Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Innsbruck (2021) | Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Vienna (2023) | Galerie Sophia Vonier, Salzburg (2022) and neue Galerie Graz (2024).