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    Year in Review 2017

    In one sense 2017 did not represent a surprise for Austrian films: it was yet again a fine year, with good representation at the major film festivals, a healthy balance between fictional and documentary productions, and a multiplicity of narrative forms. As the year unfolded we discovered once more that our expectations had been fulfilled while at the same time we had been treated to the unexpected.
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    «Wenn man sich in die Situation einer Frau dort versetzt, wird es schwieriger zu werten.»

    Sudabeh Mortezai
    Es ist ein dünner Grat zwischen immenser Schuldenlast und prekärem Aufenthaltsstatus, auf dem nigerianische Frauen, die als Sexarbeiterinnen in Wien landen, versuchen, sich einen Weg in die Freiheit zu bahnen. Sudabeh Mortezai dreht gerade ihren zweiten Spielfilm JOY, der ein gnadenloses Ausbeutungssystem vor Augen führt und es dem Publikum schwer macht, eine klare Positionen gegenüber Opfern und Tätern einzunehmen.
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    «The only limitations to her life that she accepts are the ones she sets herself.»

    Ruth Kaaserer
    What began for Ruth Kaaserer as a meeting with an elderly woman in a male-dominated competitive sport turned into an encounter with a fascinating individual who perceives her life as an adventure. A respectful interplay between proximity and distance has given rise to GWENDOLYN, the portrait of a woman with endless facets and contrasts.
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    «Der Intellekt ist oft hinderlich im Zugang zum Kind.»

    Antonin Svoboda
    Wenn das Schreien der Kleinsten chronisch wird, verstummt oft das Wissen um Abhilfe.  In ihren Eltern treffen sie nicht immer auf offene Ohren – zu komplex ist das Kraftfeld Eltern-Kind nach der Geburt, vergeblich der Versuch, über den Verstand nach Lösungen zu suchen. Antonin Svoboda ist in CRY BABY, CRY Ansätzen der emotionalen Ersthilfe nachgegangen und hat dafür auch großzügigen Einblick in die Therapieräume der Familien erhalten. 

    IDFA Amsterdam celebrates 30th edition with a double for  UNTITLED

    Michael Glawogger’s images from his last, uncompleted journey brought to a powerful and poetic essay by Monika Willi is not only part of the IDFA 2017 Masters-selection, UNTITLED is Victor Kossanovsky’s pick for the anniversary sidebar The Visual Voice. Also at IDFA: SAND AND BLOOD by Mathias Krepp and Angelika Spangel in the student documentary competition.

    3sat Doc Award for ANIMALS AND OTHER PEOPLE

    Flavio Marchetti’s directorial debut ANIMALS AND OTHER PEOPLE wins the 3sat Dokumentarfilmpreis (€ 6,000) for the best German speaking documentary at the 41st Filmwoche DUISBURG.

    COLD HELL wins Golden Monster

    Stefan Ruzowitzky’s gripping action thriller COLD HELL involving a female taxi driver with Turkish roots in a duel with a serial killer, garners the Golden Monster at the Melbourne Monster Fest.

    UNTITLED awarded Cinematic Documentary

    The 62nd Cork Film Festival honors UNTITLED by Michael Glawogger and Monika Willi with Cinematic Documentary Award.

    «...a haunting, ever-timely reminder»

    ...wrote the Los Angeles Times about A GERMAN LIFE by Christian Krönes, Olaf S. Müller, Roland Schrotthofer, Florian Weigensamer theatrically released in Los Angeles at the Laemmle Town Center 5 on November 10. This portrait of a unique witness of the 20th century is also among the 170 entries to the Oscar race for Best Documentary.
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    «It was a bit like Noah's Ark.»

    Flavio Marchetti
    As a rule Flavio Marchetti takes the role of the producer in the La Banda Film Collective. With ANIMALS AND OTHER PEOPLE  has turned his hand to directing for the first time, devoting his attention to a subject which has been close to his heart since early childhood, even though a chance visit to the Vienna Animal Shelter triggered his filmic observation of the affinities between people and animals.
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    «How does this woman manage to be so clear and hard towards herself?»

    Julian Roman Pölsler
    A few years before The Wall, Marlen Haushofer wrote the novella Wir töten Stella (literally We Kill Stella), where a narrator reviews the circumstances surrounding the death of a young girl who has been run over by a truck. The edifice of the solid, middle-class family where 19-year-old Stella comes to stay for a year as a student is soon revealed as a merciless trap; each member of the family betrays the young woman in a different way. A conversation with Julian Pölsler about the second part of his Haushofer Trilogy.

    HIDDEN RESERVES wins a Silver Skull

    The Morbido Film Fest in Mexoco City handed over a Silver Skull to Valentin Hitz, honouring HIDDEN RESERVES as the most outstanding global feature film of the festival.

    Three international premieres at Filmtage HOF

    Julian Pölsler’s new Marlen Haushofer adaptation KILLING STELLA (after The Wall in 2012, Flavio Marchetti’s documentary ANIMALS AND OTHER PEOPLE and GATEKEEPER by Lawrence Tooley and Loretta Pflaum are the three new films made in Austria celebrating their international premiere at the 51st HOFER Filmtage (October 24 to 29)

    Rome, Munich ... THE BEST OF ALL WORLDS keeps winning

    The federal association of German film directors awards Adrian Goiginger’s directorial debut with the Metropolis-Preis for best first feature, Verena Altenberger took the distiction in the Best actress category. THE BEST OF ALL WORLDS was also selected Best Film in the Alice nella città-sidebar of the Rome FEsta del cinema.

    „It is a heart-taking, crude and tough film“

    The JIHLAVA Documentary Festival grants the Silver Eye Award to SAND AND BLOOD by Matthias Krepp and Angelika Spangel. The jury stated, "The film presents a story about Iraqi and Syrian war conflicts and its refugees by using self-shot images and home videos ...

    MADEMOISELLE PARADIS takes main award at Filmkunstfest

    Barbara Albert's sensitive portrait of the remarquably talented blind pianist Maria Theresia Paradis, set in Rococo Vienna under the reign of Maria Theresia, garners the main prize at the Filmkunstfest Sachsen Anhalt.

    Special Mention to UNTITLED at Docs MX

    UNTITLED, Michael Glawogger's footage from an uncompleted journey brought to an extraordinary essay  by Monika Willi received a Special Mention by the jury of the Docs MX, the documentary film festival of MExico City.

    LIFE GUIDANCE on a flash forward move to Busan

    Ruth Mader’s unsettling dystopia is among the 37 European films participating in the Europe! Umbrella at Asia’s major festival events. LIFE GUIDANCE celebrates its Asian premiere within the Flash Forward selection that focusses on non-Asian filmmakers who stand out for their inventive apporaches to storytelling.

    «Looks to be a high-profile festival run.»

    Barbara Albert's 5th feature film MADEMOISELLE PARADIS celebrated its first encounter with the European audience at the San Sebastián festival and enchanted not only Variety critic Guy Lodge.

    Flahertiana honors Michael Glawogger

    The Russian Flahertiana Documentary Festival commemorates Michael Glawogger with a Special Award of the Jury and the Flahertiana Organizing Commitee for his contribution to the documentary cinema. UNTITLED by Monika Willi and Michael Glawogger had been part of this year’s Flahertiana international competition.

    MADEMOISELLE PARADIS starts her European tour in San Sebastián

    Barbara Albert
    "An exquisitely crafted period drama", that's what  Allan Hunter of Screen Daily wrote on Barbara Albert's new feature film MADEMOISELLE PARADIS. Right after its world premiere at the Toronto Platform competiton the film joins the Golden Shell competition at San Sébastián, celebrating also its European premiere.

    THE BEST OF ALL WORLDS wins First Steps Award

    Adrian Goiginger
    Adrian Goiginger's directorial debut THE BEST OF ALL WORLDS garners one of the most prestigious distictions for young German speaking cinema. The First Steps Award is endowed with € 25,000. "One of the most moving pictures of the year", stated the jury.

    42nd TIFF with world premiere of MADEMOISELLE PARADIS and more ...

    Barbara Albert’s eagerly awaited fifth feature film MADEMOISELLE PARADIS has set off for world premiere at the Platform competition. Four more Austrian co-productions are on the schedules of Masters, TIFF Docs and Contemporary World Cinema. Find out the screening dates...

    Views from the world premieres in Venice and Toronto

    LIFE GUIDANCE by Ruth Mader and MADEMOISELLE PARADIS by Barbara Albert celebrated their world premiere on September 8, one in Toronto, the other one in Venice. Read what the critics said.

    HAPPY END: Austria’s entry for Best Foreign Language Film

    Oscar winner and two-time Oscar nominee Michael Haneke prepares for another Oscar race: His Cannes competition entry HAPPY END has been selected the Austrian submission for the 2018 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
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    «I hate political correctness. »

    Ruth Mader
    The people in LIFE GUIDANCE have subjugated themselves to the credo of self-optimization and handed their private lives over to an agency. That would be disturbing enough. But Ruth Mader has tightened the screw by setting her dystopia in a period which seems well within reach of the present day. We talked to director Ruth Mader.

    Ruth Mader’s LIFE GUIDANCE at Giornate degli Autori

    Society is divided into minimum recipients and top achievers, private sphere does no longer exist. Ruth Mader has created a disturbing dystopia and ... the even more unsettling thing – this hollow new world is set in a future more than similar to our present. The world premiere of LIFE GUIDANCE will be celebrated at  Giornate degli autori in Venice.
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    «Being able to see would not bring her more freedom.»

    Barbara Albert
    MADEMOISELLE PARADIS takes us to Rococo Vienna and the remarkably talented blind pianist Maria Theresia Paradis, who is torn between her extraordinary musical talent and her desire to live the life of an ordinary young woman within the rules of a rigid society.

    MADEMOISELLE PARADIS in Toronto and San Sebastián

    After the world premiere in TORONTO (Platform competition), Barbara Albert’s 5th feature film will head to SAN SEBASTIÁN as a contender of the Golden Shell competition. MADEMOISELLE PARADIS takes us to Rococo Vienna and the remarkably talented blind pianist Maria Theresia Paradis who is torn between her extraordinary musical talent and her desire to to live the life of an ordinary young woman within the rules of a rigid society.
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    «How do people look at somebody who comes into light?»

    Barbara Albert has just finished shooting her new film LIGHT, set in Vienna in the late Rococo period. Light focuses on Maria Theresia Paradis, a musical prodigy who lost her sight at the age of three and her oscillation between light and shadow both in her own life and in society’s perception of her. It is the fourth feature film, produced by NGF Geyrhalterfilm. We talked to producer Michael Kitzberger.
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    «You have to be like a sensitive record.»

    Astrid Johanna Ofner
    In his autobiographical novel Farewell to the Parents, Peter Weiss describes the obstacle course facing a child born in the early 20th century. In her first full-length film FAREWELL, Astrid Johanna Ofner brings out the poetry of this text, composed without dialogue or paragraphs, in a visual version for the big screen with subtle pacing.
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    «It was always a balancing act.»

    Matthias Krepp, Angelika Spangel
    Matthias Krepp and Angelika Spangel have assembled video material from digital channels with commentaries and accounts from Iraqi and Syrian refugees now living in Austria, forming a collage about the war, SAND AND BLOOD is an attempt to employ the gripping transposition of images and the voices of witnesses to convey some sense of the unimaginable reality of everyday life dominated by violence.

    First films by Astrid J. Ofner and Matthias Krepp at LOCARNO

    LOCARNO has announced its 70th program with two first feature films and one co-production by Austrian filmmakers and producers:
    – FAREWELL TO THE  PARENTS  by Astrid Johanna Ofner (Cineasti del Presente) 
    – SAND AND BLOOD by Matthias Krepp (Out of Competition)
    – THE ICEMAN by Felix Randau (Piazza Grande)
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    «We are being told how we should think.»

    Ruth Mader
    Ruth Mader's new film LIFE GUIDANCE depicts the future as an apparent copy of the present, where imperceptibly yet efficiently an extensive surveillance system draws the net tighter. We had a short talk with the director during the shooting.

    UNTITLED wins Best Documentary Award at Five Lakes Festival

    Monika Willi, who has realized UNTITLED out of the film footage produced by Michael Glawogger during his shooting in the Balkans, Italy, Northwest and West Africa before his sudden death in April 2014, received the Best Documentary Award at the Five Lakes Festival. The Austrian co-production THE EREMITES took the Fünf Seen-Award, SEVENTEEN by Monja Art the Prize for Best Screenplay.
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    «Nichts ist normal. Das wird aber auch das Besondere des Films ausmachen.»

    Die Novotny & Novotny Filmproduktion sowie Amour Fou Luxembourg haben als Produzenten von Angelo ein Wiener Rokoko zwischen Opulenz und Abstraktion entstehen lassen. Ein Gespräch über die Dreharbeiten mit Alexander Glehr und Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu.

    Awards at Moscow and Valencia

    Verena Altenberger wins the Silver George for Best Actress at the Moscow Film Festival for her performance in Adrian Goiginger’s THE BEST OF ALL WORLDS.  The Valencia Cinema Jove festival honors Monja Art’s directorial debut SEVENTEEN with the Premio CIMA for best movie directed by a woman.

    BROTHERS OF THE NIGHT on a successful giro d’Italia

    Patric Chiha
    After the Best Picture Award at the SICILIA QUEER Filmfest, Patric Chiha’s colorful portraits of young Bulgarian Roma garners the Best Documentary Award at MIX MILANO Festival.
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    «When fans get together they talk in quotations from the films.»

    Karl-Martin Pold
    Karl-Markus Pold is a child of the 1980s, but Bud Spencer became the hero of his childhood and, later, the object of his research. In THEY CALLED HIM SPENCER he attempts to capture the phenomenon of Bud Spencer – the personality and the cult surrounding him – in all its unbelievable facets.

    Creative Energy Filmpreis to THE MIGRUMPIES

    Arman T. Riahi
    Arman T. Riahi’s media satire receives the Creative Energy Filmpreis, endowed with € 5,000, at the Filmfest Emden-Norderney. THE MIGRUMPIES was selected out of five nominated films.

    «As gripping as a satanically inspired soap opera.»

    ... that's how The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw reviewed Michael Haneke's HAPPY END after its world premiere at the 2017 Cannes Palme d'or competition. He adds, «This is a black comedy of pure sociopathy.» more reviews
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    «All my films are emotional.»

    Michael Haneke
    It is only in a momentary depiction of three generations of bourgeois existence that Michael Haneke allows us to become aware, in his new film HAPPY END, which certainties are likely to slip away, which values to sink beneath the surface. Even when employing the transience of youthful chat media, the filmmaker succeeds in generating lasting unease about ourselves – and within ourselves.

    The SYDNEY festival points out 10 European woman directors

    For the second time the Sydney IFF sets a focus on outstanding European women filmmakers in order to make them meet with the Australian audience and film industry. Europe! Voices of Women  comprises ten films from Europe, including MISTER UNIVERSO by Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel.
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    «One of the challenges facing me was to create lighting in non-existent rooms.»

    In a society where sexual freedom is prohibited by law, the niches of double morality are opened up. In order to narrate a tale of forbidden Iran in his work TEHERAN TABOO, director Ali Soozandeh has chosen an animation technique based on images shot live with actors. We talked to Austrian DOP Martin Gschlacht who provides an insight into an unusual approach on set.
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    «Wir interessieren uns für Projekte, hinter denen Menschen stehen, die eine Haltung dazu haben.»

    Nach Toni Erdmann im Wettbewerb von Cannes 2016 ist die coop99 filmproduktion auch dieses Jahr als Koproduktionspartner  im Festivalprogramm der 70. Filmfestivalspiele von Cannes vertreten. Ein Gespräch mit den Produzenten über die beiden neuen Arbeiten WESTERN von Valeska Grisebach und TEHERAN TABU von Ali Soozandeh.

    HAPPY END at the 70th Cannes Festival

    Double Palme d’or winner Michael Haneke is back at the Cannes festival presenting HAPPY END – a snapshot from the life of a bourgeois family – with Jean-Louis Trintignant, Isabelle Huppert and Mathieu Kassovitz in competition. WESTERN by German filmmaker Valeska Grisebach, co-produced by coop99 filmproduktion, is part of this year’s Un Certain Regard selection.

    56th Cannes Critics Week selects TEHRAN TABOO

    First time director Ali Soozandeh chose the animation medium to provide insight into an opaque and two-faced society where sexual and moral freedom has been banished by religious law. TEHRAN TABOO, shot by Austrian DOP Martin Gschlacht and co-produced by Austrian coop99 filmproduction with German Little Dream Entertainment, is one of the seven competition entries of the 56th Cannes Critics Week

    Publikation: Ein deutsches Leben

    Mit 103 Jahren war Brunhilde Pomsel wohl als eine der letzten Zeuginnen des Nazi-Machtzirkels bereit, vor der Kamera ihr Lebensresümee zu ziehen und ihr Verhalten als junge Frau (Jahrgang 1911) zu reflektieren.

    MISTER UNIVERSO awarded in Montevideo and Paris

    Universally present MISTER UNIVERSO garners two awards on one weekend: the Audience Award at the Montevideo Film Festival and a Special Mention by the Prix Sauvage  jury of the L’Europe autour de l’Europe festival in Paris.

    SECONDO ME at
    Toronto Hot Docs

    After its world premiere at the Locarno Critics Week, SECONDO ME sets out for its North American premiere at the Toronto Hot Docs festival (April 27 to May 7, 2017). Pavel Cuzuioc’s directorial debut reverses the flow of attention at three opera houses by skipping the stage and portraying three cloakroom attendants. SECONDO ME is part of the World Showcase line-up

    Six Austrian voices at CPH:DOX

    Two thought-provoking first-time documentaries, THE THIRD OPTION by Thomas Fürhapter (vying for Dox:Award) and FREE LUNCH SOCIETY by Christian Tod (eligible for the Politiken Audience Award) will celebrate their world premiere in Copenhagen. HOMO SAPIENS, MISTER UNIVERSO, SAFARI and UNTITLED add to a strong Austrian presence at the upcoming CPH: DOX festival.
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    Saas Fee Crystal Larch to HIDDEN RESERVES

    The Saas Fee Filmfest honors Valentin Hitz’ HIDDEN RESERVES with its main award, the Crystal Larch, the Critics Choice went to the German-Austrian co-production THE EREMITES by Ronny Trocker.
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    COLD HELL wins Jury Prize at Beaune

    The feature film jury of the Festival International du Film Policier at Beaune awards Stefan Ruzowitzy’s COLD HELL with the Jury Prize. The distinction went ex aequo to the Spanish production The Fury of a Patient Man by Raúl Arévalo.
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    WILD MOUSE charms German audience

    On German screens since March 9, WILD MOUSE scored the best opening weekend ever of an Austrian movie released in Germany. With 37,000 viewers (previews included even 50,100) Josef Hader’s directorial debut made the second most successful release right behind Oscar winner Moonlight last weekend.
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    «What is normality? What is disability?»

    Thomas Fürhapter
    If the results of prenatal diagnosis indicate anomalies, prospective parents are faced with an extremely serious decision. In The Third Option Thomas Fürhapter goes beyond a focus on free choice and individual destinies; he employs a stringent documentary structure to examine social consensus about normality and disability, questioning the true nature of freedom in a society marked by striving for optimization and normalization.
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    «Curiosity and the desire to improve the world.»

    Christian Tod
    At a time when walls, fears and cutbacks are narrowing the horizon, Christian Tod’s FREE LUNCH SOCIETY reflects on the concept of Unconditional Basic Income, providing a refreshing and illuminating view of the present as a vast realm of unthought-of opportunities.
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    FICUNAM awards Patric Chiha Best Director

    Patric Chiha
    Patric Chiha’s wins the Best director award for the „humane, delicate and creative approach to his characters“ in BROTHERS OF THE NIGHT.
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    67th Berlinale: Compass Perspektive Award to Adrian Goiginger

    Adrian Goiginger
    Awarded for the first time and endowed with € 5,000, the Compass Perspektive Award goes to first time director Adrian Goiginger and his sensitive homage to his mother and her battle between maternal love and her drug addiction THE BEST OF ALL WORLDS.
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    Silver Bear to Georg Friedrich

    Georg Friedrich took the Silver Bear for Best Actor for his strong leading performance in Thomas Arslan's Bright Nights. As part fo Josef Hader's cast in Wild Mouse he gave a second key performance at the 67th Golden Bear competiton.
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    «I wanted a reversal of perspective.»

    Adrian Goiginger
    In THE BEST OF ALL WORLDS Adrian Goiginger depicts with striking honesty his childhood years in the disturbing world of a junkie apartment and his mother, who managed to create space for him to have a good childhood despite the chaos of her own addiction.
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    «The blow to Georg's ego is devastating.»

    Josef Hader
    In his directorial debut WILD MOUSE Josef Hader dispatches an eminent classical music reviewer on a tragi-comic rollercoaster ride, watching closely to see how a sophisticated spirit can be transformed into a wild beast as a result of a bruised ego. A conversation with the writer, director and leading actor.
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    «A film that never stands still.»

    Monika Willi
    When Michael Glawogger embarked on a journey in December 2013 for his project UNTITLED, it was his desire to make a film that never stands still. He was not to return from that journey. Monika Willi has now edited the material created over about four and a half months, coaxing the narrative and poetic power from this film with no name – a task which was both melancholy and marked by zest for life.

    Achingly personal ... genuinely profound

    ... that's what Screen International wrote about the moving mosaic Monika Willi, Michael Glawogger's long term editor, has composed out of images and texts gathered during the four months and 19 days of his journey for his  film project UNTITLED.
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    «Rock me, Amadeus.»...

    ... that's how  The Hollywood Reporter concludes its Berlinale review of Josef Hader's directorial debute WILD MOUSE ...« the film that may be the most effortlessly fun of the festival's program.
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    Berlinale 2017
    with new films from Austria

    Discover Josef Hader’s directorial debut WILD MOUSE at the Golden Bear competition, long-awaited UNTITLED by Monika Willi and Michael Glawogger unveiled at Panorama Dokumente and Adrian Goigingers first feature film THE BEST OF ALL WORLDS as well as Max Ophüls Prize winner SEVENTEEN by Monja Art at Perspektive.
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    «Es gibt keine Rettung.»

    Juri Rechinsky
    Schmerz und Verlust in der eigenen Familie führten Juri Rechinsky auf eine Reise nach Innen. In UGLY sucht er nach einer filmischen Sprache für das Unsagbare und kadriert, was unwiederbringlich am Entgleiten ist.

    On screen at the Berlinale 2017

    Find the screening dates of Austrian films and co-productions at the 67th Berlinale (February 9 - 19, 2017)

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    UNTITLED by Michael Glawogger and Monika Willi at  Berlinale PANORAMA

    More than two years after the sudden death of Michael Glawogger in April 2014, film editor Monika Willi realized a film out of the film footage produced during 4 months and 19 days of shooting in the Balkans, Italy, Northwest and West Africa. A journey into the world to observe, listen and experience, the eye attentive, courageous and raw.
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    Berlinale 2017:
    WILD MOUSE faces Golden Bear

    Josef Hader's directorial debut WILD MOUSE has been selected for the Golden Bear competition of the 67th Berlinale. Author and director Josef Hader also plays the male lead, Georg, a renowned music critic who sets out for revenge after he has lost his prestigious job at a Vienna news paper.
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    Max Ophüls 2017: young Austrian cinema sweeps three main awards

    Both juries and audience enchanted by new films by Austrian first time directors: Monja Art’s SEVENTEEN takes the Max Ophüls Prize 2017 and the Best Young Actress Award (Elisabeth Wabitsch), Arman T. Riahi’s first feature film THE MIGRUMPIES wins the Audience Award.
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    «It's a phase full of courage and energy and a lack of inhibitions.»

    Monja Art
    In SEVENTEEN Monja Art plunges into the emotional rollercoaster ride of a period in life characterized by unlimited opportunities and missed chances.
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    «Man glaubt ja immer, dass Erinnerung ein selbstbestimmter Vorgang ist.»

    Maya McKechneay
    Maya McKechneay hat mit SÜHNHAUS ein neues Genre  – den dokumentarischen Geisterfilm – erfunden und hat viel Unheimliches und Ungereimtes über eine immer wieder vom Unheil heimgesuchten Adresse an der Wiener Ringstraße in Erfahrung gebracht. Ein Gespräch mit der Filmemacherin.
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    THE BEST OF ALL WORLDS is part of Perspektive Deutsches Kino

    Adrian Goiginger
    There’s one more Austrian directorial debut to appear at the 67th Berlinale:  Perspektive Deutsches Kino invites the Austrian-German co-production THE BEST OF ALL WORLDS by first-time director Adrian Goiginger.
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    Berlinale Forum selects ANIMALS by Greg Zglinski

    ANIMALS by Greg Zglinski, a co-production between Austria, Switzerland and Poland, adds to our line-up at the upcoming 67th Berlinale. The unsettling drama, starring Birgit Minichmayr and Philipp Hochmair, is co-produced by Vienna-based coop99 filmproduktion.
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    «You can also approach clichés with respect.»

    Arman T. Riahi
    In the media satire THE MIGRUMPIES the director and the leading actors juggle with clichés about immigrants, asking why the migrant background persists in the foreground over generations. Arman T. Riahi discusses his debut as a feature film director.

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