Austrian filmmaker Manuel Wetscher's feature debut "Eklipse" premieres in the Horizons section of the 83rd Venice Film Festival on 5 September. The drama draws on Wetscher's own experience of only learning years later that his father had died of AIDS in 1993, and explores the taboos and fear of social exclusion surrounding the disease through the eyes of two teenage boys.

Set on an alpine dairy farm in 1990s Austria, the film follows Tomy (Moritz Hohlrieder) and his best friend Chris (Finley Brown) during a summer of farm work, while Tomy's mother conceals from him the real reason his father is hospitalised. When Chris learns the truth, his fear leads him to pull away, leaving Tomy to confront rejection and silence from those around him. Wetscher co-wrote the screenplay with Bernhard Jarosch, blending autobiographical elements with fiction; the cast also includes Hannes Perkmann, Lenz Moretti, Lisa Schützenberger and Barbara Romaner, with Films Boutique handling world sales.