Already during my textile design studies, I began working with films. Parallel to my work as a textile designer, I produced my first short films.
After a few years, I decided to study directing with Michael Haneke as well as screenwriting and dramaturgy with Götz Spielmann at the Vienna Film Academy.
Many of my screenplays and films were the result of my preoccupation with the different origins of my parents.
Cultural conflicts, social inequality, and the consequences of migration are topics for which I found material in my personal environment.
I often cast amateur actors in order to tell their stories with the greatest possible authenticity.
Kemal (Ilhami Arslan) observes the arrest of Somali refugees from a neighboring apartment at night. In the morning, he finds Nadifo (Fadumo Mohamed), who has escaped the police and is locked out in the courtyard.
Kemal forces Nadifo to warm herself up in his apartment. She tries in vain to escape. Only gradually do Kemal’s motives reveal themselves and with them the difficulty of correctly assessing a person.
Written and directed by: Jasmina Eleta
Cinematography: Georg Geutebrück
Editing: Alexander Rauscher
Production: Viktor Perdula, Catrin Freundlinger
Three people in one room: a policeman (Rainer Doppler), a suspect (Ilhami Arslan), and the latter’s wife (Tanja Raunig), who has been summoned as a witness.
Who interrogates whom? Which outweighs the other, power or sincerity? When can you afford to tell the truth?
Written and directed by: Jasmina Eleta
Cinematography: Jonny Roth
Editing: Alexander Rauscher
Production: Viktor Perdula, Catrin Freundlinger
Amrik (Harjinder Singh) has made his way from Punjab to Vienna, where he delivers newspapers. When his mother dies, he has to decide whether to risk his stay in Europe.
Amrik’s employer Gerhard (Peter Wolf) has his mother (Vera Borek) looked after by a Slovakian nurse (Jana Beňovičová). A closeness develops between the women that Gerhard is incapable of.
Gerhard and Amrik never meet.
Written and directed by: Jasmina Eleta
Cinematography: Krisztina Kerekes
Editing: Claudia Linzer
Original music: Diego Collatti
Production: Viktor Perdula
The screenplay was awarded the Thomas Pluch Screenplay Prize in 2010.
On the way back from a funeral in the countryside, Peter (Robert Stuc) catches up with Alma (Alexandra Frankl) and offers her a lift in his camper van.
Peter knows who Alma is, while she doesn’t even know his name. As they cautiously get to know each other, the voids left in both their lives by their deceased father are revealed.
Written and directed by: Jasmina Eleta
Cinematography: Bernadette Weigel
Editing: Julian Wiehl
Original music: Diego Collatti
Production: Therese Seemann, Esther Hassfurther
They can be found in front of the opera, on Stephansplatz, in the Stadtpark: men and women in Mozart costumes selling concert tickets to tourists. They are foreigners who convey Viennese culture to other foreigners under precarious conditions in order to feed themselves and their families abroad.
The film accompanies a salesman to his family in Kosovo and shows their view of Vienna and the opportunities it offers.
Director: Jasmina Eleta
Cinematography Vienna: Bernadette Weigel
Cinematography Kosovo: Jasmina Eleta
Editing: Julian Wiehl
Production: Jasmina Eleta
In a Viennese boarding house, a dancer (Marie-Thérèse Leopoldsberger) waits in vain for a musician (Astrit Alihajdaraj) who is attending a New Year’s Eve party without her.
An old woman with dementia (Margarethe Horowitz) can’t find her room.
The Danube Waltz plays to ring in the New Year and unexpectedly brings the two women together.
Written and directed by: Jasmina Eleta
Cinematography: Klemens Hufnagl
Editing: Jasmina Eleta
Production: Catalina Molina
Rahima (Emira Hadžidedić) dreams of having coffee with her son Haris (Haris Čengić) and having him play the accordion for her.
Without further ado, she sets off from Bosnia to visit him in Switzerland. However, her son’s life in the supposed paradise is not as she had imagined. But Rahima gets her coffee and her song anyway.
Written and directed by: Jasmina Eleta
Cinematography: Mike Krishnatreya
Editing: Jasmina Eleta
Production: Jasmina Eleta
