Dad, What Are You Thinking of Doing? / Dad, What's Your Plan?
Starting in November 2026: 6th Innsbruck, 12th Vienna, 13th Linz
Nationwide theatrical release in Austria of Tolga Karaaslan’s bachelor’s thesis in Time-Based and Interactive Media Art.
Tolga Karaaslan’s documentary, which had already won the prestigious Diagonale Prize for Best Austrian Documentary , is now coming to Austrian theaters.
Baba, Ne Yapmayı Düşünüyorsun? / Baba, What’s Your Plan?
Documentary, AT/TR 2026, 89 min
Celal Karaaslan, a Turkish migrant from Austria, asks his son Tolga what he should do in life. Usually, it was Celal who had the answers. Shaped by both physically demanding work and cancer, he is no longer able to work. However, his question initiates a journey together to find a purpose in life.
“When someone in the family becomes chronically ill, the whole family falls ill,” explains Celal Karaaslan. After decades of heavy physical labor, he is waiting for his invalidity pension. For him and his son Tolga, the waiting period becomes a search for a possible future—one that confronts both with existential questions: How does life inscribe itself into the body? What ideas of belonging, security, family, and male role models arise when reflecting on the paths already taken in life?
Links to the film:
Trailer vimeo.com/1174163221
Moviemento www.moviemento.at/film/baba-whats-your-plan
AKOÖ ooe.arbeiterkammer.at/service/veranstaltungen/kultur/film/AK-Film-des-Monats---November
Sixpackfilm Theater Release www.sixpackfilm.com/de/events/show/373/
Sixpackfilm www.sixpackfilm.com
