Veni Vidi Vici

Director: Daniel Hoesl, Julia Niemann
Screenwriters: Daniel Hoesl

Institute History

  • 2024 Sundance Film Festival

Description

The Maynards and their children lead an almost perfect billionaire family life. Amon is a passionate hunter, but doesn’t shoot animals, as the family’s wealth allows them to live totally free from consequences.

In this social satire, directors Daniel Hoesl and Julia Niemann push the rich’s untouchability to an extreme, revealing the consequences of an unchecked system and the dangers of a world where people are not accountable for their actions. The Maynards cannot be stopped, not by another man’s word, or journalistic evidence, or even the law. Now there’s only freedom: without limits and impossibilities, no matter the violence. Those with wealth are free to do as they please, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it. The Machiavellian family study allows the rich to be as fearsome and violent as they pretend to be kind and giving.—AE

This film contains violence and gore.

Available in person. Also available online for the public (January 25–28) and credentialed press and industry (January 24–28).



Screenings include closed and open captions.

Screening Details

  • Section: World Cinema Dramatic Competition
  • Film Type: Narrative Feature
  • Country: Austria
  • Language: German
  • Run Time: 86 min.

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