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Mit einem Tiger schlafen

Sleeping with a Tiger
Forum 2024
© coop99 Filmproduktion
A painting. Green with conifers, the earthy tones of dry meadows and church walls. In the light streaming through her grandmother’s farmhouse, where Maria Lassnig spends her childhood, shines a cardigan in sky blue for the first time, shining as if not of this world. Growing up in southern Austria, Lassnig is drawn, via Vienna’s Art Academy, into the local post-war art scene. Sky blue, pink, jade green, fleshy red. Taciturn, stubborn among men who like to hear themselves speak, she feels her way into her own body and takes a look at the world. She paints. She films. Mercilessly and mischievously. Doggedly, she develops her career. She knows the value of her painting long before the art world follows suit with its verdict. Birgit Minichmayr embodies Maria Lassnig in Anja Salomonowitz’s filmic homage to the artist across all stages of her life and psychological states, fleshing out the “body awareness” of Lassnig’s art with a physical body that produces the art. An offbeat and complex biopic in hybrid form: acted scenes and documentary sequences interlock. The images are real.
by Anja Salomonowitz (Director, Screenplay)
with Birgit Minichmayr, Johanna Orsini, Maria Nicolini, Lukas Watzl, Oskar Haag, Josef Kleindienst Austria 2024 German, English, French 107' Colour World premiere

With

  • Birgit Minichmayr
  • Johanna Orsini
  • Maria Nicolini
  • Lukas Watzl
  • Oskar Haag
  • Josef Kleindienst

Crew

Director Anja Salomonowitz
Screenplay Anja Salomonowitz
Cinematography Jo Molitoris
Editing Joana Scrinzi
Music Bernhard Fleischmann
Sound Design Veronika Hlawatsch
Sound Hijalti Bager-Jonathansson und Johannes Baumann
Production Design Martin Reiter mit Andreas Ertl
Costumes Tanja Hausner
Make-Up Sam Dopona, Verena Eichtinger
Casting Lisa Olah
Animation Klaus Krall
Producer Antonin Svoboda

Produced by

coop99 filmproduktion

Wien, Austria

Photos

Ryan Machado

Born in Romblon, an island province of the Philippines, he is a playwright, director and lecturer at the University of the Philippines Manila. He has long been interested in stories from the peripheries of the Philippines. His work foregrounds regional voices, queering, masculinity and silence amid social and environmental neglect. His debut feature film Huling Palabas (Fin) premiered at Cinemalaya, where it won the prize for Best Director, and went on to screen in the Berlinale Generation section and at major LGBTQ+ festivals around the world. In 2025, he founded the Talabukon Film Festival to advance regional cinema in Romblon.

Filmography (Filmography)

2016 Engkwento (A Boy’s Tale); short film 2017 Kagat (Bite); short film 2020 AL+ER; short film 2023 Huling Palabas (Fin); Berlinale 2024 2025 Rumaragasa (Raging); Berlinale 2026

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2026