«Film is bodies in space.»
Barbara Albert
Nordrand, shown in competition for the Golden Lion at the 1999 Venice Film Festival, is considered a milestone. It marked
the beginning of growing international appreciation of Austrian filmmaking, but above all it launched Barbara Albert's career
as a director, screenwriter, producer and teacher. After ten years at the Film University of Babelsberg, where she was most
recently Vice President for Academic Affairs, and 32 years after she herself began her studies in directing and screenwriting
at the Vienna Film Academy, she returns there to succeed Michael Haneke as Professor of Directing.