SHORT NEWS

Festival summer 2014, part 1: FID Marseille and IFF Karlovy Vary

 

 

Johannes Holzhausen’s THE GREAT MUSEUM opens the 25th FID Marseille, Ruth Beckermann’s THOSE WHO GO THOSE WHO STAY is selected for Écrans parallèles. The Karlovy Vary festival showcases seven feature films made in Austria, STEADINESS by Lisa Weber will compete for Best Documentary.



25th FID MARSEILLE

Opening Film


THE GREAT MUSEUM
by Johannes Holzhausen (Navigator Film (A))

This documentary portrays one of the most important museums in the world, Vienna’s Museum of Art History. An extensive look behind the scenes at this fascinating institution employs a number of charismatic protagonists and the varied routine there to show us the museum’s special world.

July 1, 20:30, Silo


Écrans parallèles | La vie matérielle

THOSE WHO GO THOSE WHO STAY

by Ruth Beckermann (Ruth Beckermann Filmproduktion (A))


Rain on a window pane, a fire truck, a tomcat with innumerable offspring: it is an intentionally unintentional gaze that allows for chance encounters, for stories and memories – leads that Ruth Beckermann follows across Europe and the Mediterranean. THOSE WHO GO THOSE WHO STAY is a story of being on the move, in the world and one’s own life.

July 4, 20:00, MuCEM
July 6,  20:30, Villa Méditérranée


FIDLab    
PARABELLUM
(Project)
by Lukas Valenta Rinner

Hernán, a geologist working for an investigation center, arrives with a group of strangers to an isolated house in the Delta of Tigre for what seems to be the preparation for the end of the world.  

49th IFF Karlovy Vary

Documentary Films – Competition


STEADINESS by Lisa Weber

A man and a woman travel to North Cape. By car. They are filmed by their granddaughter. The closer they get to reaching their destination, the less important it becomes. No longer a film about the difficulties of a long drive but one about the difficulties of a long life together.

July 8, 18:30, Cas Cinema   
July 9, 14:00, Drahomira Cinema   

 


Variety Critics’ Choice
MACONDO by Sudabeh Mortezai

MACONDO walks the line between documentary and fiction and tells a coming-of-age story about identity, belonging and self-determination, located in the rough and unadorned reality of refugee communities in Vienna.

July 7, 9:30, Small Hall   
July 12, 16:30, Lazne III


Horizons   
AMOUR FOU
by Jessica Hausner

Berlin, the Romantic Era. Young poet Heinrich wishes to conquer the inevitability of death through love. Heinrich meets Henriette, the wife of a business acquaintance. Heinrich's subsequent offer to the beguiling young woman at first holds scant appeal, that is until Henriette discovers she is suffering from a terminal illness.

July 9 , 10:00, Karlovy Vary Theatre   
July 10, 16:00, Cinema C (Press & Industry)
July 12, 16:00, Congress Hall   



Midnight Screenings

THE DARK VALLEY
by Andreas Prochaska (Allegro Film (A), X Filme Creative Pool (D))

A stranger arrives in a European high mountain village where he is allowed to stay before the harsh winter. He introduces himself as a photographer from America, but nobody suspects that the foreigner is here to take revenge.

July 4, 23:59, Cas Cinema   
July 5, 22:30, Cinema A (Press & Industry)
July 7, 23:59, Small Hall   
July 8, 23:59, Cas Cinema   


Out of Competition - Documentary Films

EARTH’S GOLDEN PLAYGROUND by Andreas Horvath

July 5, 11:30, Drahomira Cinema
July 7, 15:30, Cinema B
July 10,  16:00, Congress Hall


IMAGINA
ABSCHIED
by Ludwig Wüst

July 6, 20:00, Drahomira Cinema
July 9, 15:30, Cinema B
July 11, 8:30, Congress Hall

A MASQUE OF MADNESS
by Norbert Pfaffenbichler
July 4, 21:30, Cas Cinema
July 8, 22:00, Husovka Theatre
July 10,  22:00, Husovka Theatre

OPTICAL SOUND by Christian Neubacher + Elke Groen (short)
July 8,  10:00, Cas Cinema
July 11,  15:30, Cas Cinema