My first feature "The fortune you seek is in another cookie" has
it´s World Premiere at the CPH:DOX Copenhagen - DOX AWARD
Competition  'From the silence among mummies in a Chilean desert
to youth street riots in Istanbul, the occupied Cinecittà film
studios in Rome and a demonstration in Chile. Like a flaneur who
sees the world with the poetic gaze of an outsider, the film's
nameless narrator travels around the world in search of
happiness. Not as a sentimental feeling of pleasure, but as an
idea and practice, which nonetheless turns out to be just as
volatile as the images that his buzzing 16mm camera capture in
beautiful and gritty scenes. Images that turn their back on him,
but which throug visions and encounters and with a silent fury
initiate him (and us) to a fundamental, human search for
meaning, cohesion, knowledge and freedom. It could easily have
become a pretentious affair, but Johannes Gierlinger turns the
abstract concepts upside down in a politically down-to-earth
film, which above all is about