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    92nd Academy Awards: Sudabeh Mortezai’s JOY disqualified

    Two months after the submission of JOY as Austria’s entry for the International Feature Competition, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences informed the Austrian selection committee that Sudabeh Mortezai’s film is ineligible because its dialogue is predominantly in English. The Austrian committee has protested.

    The New Yorker Magazine selects CHAOS by Sara Fattahi among Best Movies of 2019

    Richard Brody from the New Yorker has picked Cineasti del Presente winner CHAOS by Sara Fattahi among the most noteworthy films 2019. The list comprises 46 films in total and includes for the first time also 11 films that were not released in the US.

    Zahlen und Fakten zum Filmjahr 2019

    Alles in allem betrachtet ist 2019 ein neues Rekordjahr: 51 Filme verzeichneten beinahe 700 Festivalteilnahmen und holten 65 Preise. Allein für Oktober und November hat die Festivalstatistik der AFC weltweit 234 Teilnahmen österreichischer Filme erfasst.

    IDFA 2019 with EARTH and MOVEMENTS OF A NEARBY MOUNTAIN

    As the festival year draws to a close, the IDFA showcases two of the most successful Austrian documentaries of the year: EARTH by Nikolaus Geyrhalter (Masters) and MOVEMENTS OF A NEARBY MOUNTAIN by Sebastian Brameshuber (Best of Fests). The German-Austrian co-productions HEIMAT IS A SPACE IN TIME by Thomas Heise (Masters) and BORN IN EVIN by Maryam Zaree’s (Best of Fests) are also on the Amsterdam program.
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    «The Modified Landscape»

    Julia Gutweniger, Florian Kofler
    The first things that caught the eye of filmmakers Julia Gutweniger and Florian Kofler were strange-looking walls in the Alpine landscape. On closer examination they turned out to be part of an extensive safety infrastructure which has been developed to provide protection from landslides, avalanches and snowfalls throughout the Alpine region. There is no commentary, and a (sometimes wry) distance is maintained, as SAFETY123 investigates the assiduous human striving to provide us with sound protection against acts of God.
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    «Den Kolonialismus rückwärts aufrollen»

    Katharina Weingartner
    Die Statistik erhebt in Afrika eine Million Menschen jährlich, die der Malaria zum Opfer fallen. Für die westliche Pharmaindustrie gibt es da Einiges zu holen, vor allem solange es ihr gelingt, das dortige Heilwissen zu übertönen und zu diskreditieren. Katharina Weingartner hat mit 150 MalariaforscherInnen weltweit gesprochen und in DAS FIEBER ihren Fokus auf Ostafrika gelenkt, wo sich Forscher und Heilerinnen auf die Heilkraft der Artemisia annua-Pflanze stützen und sich einsetzen, sich aus dem Netz eines profitgesteuerten pharmazeutischen Diktats zu befreien.
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    Good-bye, Gustav Deutsch

    We were deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Gustav Deutsch who, in SHIRLEY – VISIONS OF REALITY, captivated us with his cinematic encounters with painting. The moving and the stationary image, the damaged as well as the intact and both the professional views and those of amateurs were all subject to the exploratory spirit and regard of this artist and thinker, who imparted the certainty that film is more than film.

    Focus on Jessica Hausner at the Lincoln Center

    On December 6, Jessica Hausner’s LITTLE JOE will be released in the US by Magnolia Pictures. A good reason for New York’s Lincoln Center to focus on the complete works of the Viennese ”Miracle Worker“ (as the LC entitles the program), showcasing her five feature films, two shorts and an installation from November 8 to 10, 2019.

    Filmuforia: «ROBOLOVE is a frightening documentary»

    «ROBOLOVE, with its stunning images by Sebastian Arlamovsky, is a frightening documentary: do we really want our future in the hands of these technocratic scientists, who at best will replicate the contradictions of human life today?» Read more of Meredith Taylor's ROBOLOVE review on Filmuforia
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    «We’re not nearly as exciting and individual as we like to think.»

    Maria Arlamovsky
    The fear that our working world and love life could soon be overrun by humanoid machines is matched only by our fascination with the people attempting to program their artificial replicas and overcome the limitations of physical existence. Maria Arlamovsky has once again embarked upon a voyage towards our future. In ROBOLOVE she examines the ambitions and limitations in research and development – and poses the question of why all the prototypes are female, pretty and friendly.
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    «In Romania the royal family fills a vacuum.»

    Johannes Holzhausen
    The daughter of the last King of Romania holds court in Bucharest and travels around the country in a royal train to demonstrate the bond between her and the people. The current government permits this without legitimising it. Johannes Holzhausen's THE ROYAL TRAIN accompanies a princess without portfolio on her quest: employing stage-managed pomp, she hopes to restore a chapter in Romanian history which came to an end after World War II.

    APA World Excellence Award to Gabriele Kranzelbinder

    Gabriele Kranzelbinder has been honored with the APA World Excellence Award at the Jihlava Documentary Festival. She is the first to receive this award created by the Audiovisual Producers´ Association in the Czech Republic to honor a producer successfully supporting creative documentary filmmaking. KGP Kranzelbinder Gabriele Productions has (co-)produced documentaries by Hubert Sauper, Sebastian Brameshuber, Elisabeth Scharang and many more.
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    «Ohne den erzwungenen Rücktritt würde Dohnals Lebenswerk anders dastehen.»

    Sabine Derflinger
    Erste Frauenministerin Österreichs. Stellvertretende Vorsitzende der SPÖ. 16 Jahre Mitglied der Bundesregierung. Ohne Johanna Dohnal wären die ersten Schritte in der Frauenpolitik dieses Landes nicht denkbar gewesen. Sie ist ihre Gallionsfigur und doch ist ihr Image gut zwei Jahrzehnte nach ihrem erzwungenen Rückzug aus der Politik verblasst. Das soll sich ändern: Sabine Derflinger hat in DIE DOHNAL der unermüdlichen Kämpferin in der Frauensache ein vielstimmiges Portrait gewidmet.
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    «Es gibt keine typische Frau, die auf gewalttätige Männer hereinfällt.»

    Günter Schwaiger
    Aktuelle Zahlen zu häuslicher Gewalt gegen Frauen sind alarmierend. Ihre Tendenz steigend. Nach seinem Dokumentarfilm Martas Koffer hat sich Günter Schwaiger in seinem Spielfilmdebüt DER TAUCHER erneut diesem Thema gewidmet und einmal mehr bewusst gemacht, dass Gewalterfahrungen und damit verbundene Abhängigkeiten weder geografische noch soziale Grenzen kennen.
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    «Suppress, suppress, suppress!»

    Johanna Moder
    There is no escaping normality. In ONCE WERE REBELS Johanna Moder takes a subtle look at the process by which even the beautiful lives of urbane people in their mid-30s are infiltrated by petty bourgeois attitudes. Her second feature film is another witty portrait of her own generation, struggling doggedly for alternative lifestyles as well as optimal versions of themselves… only to end up creating selves which are crippled by insufficiencies.

    Jessica Hausner and Sudabeh Mortezai part of the London FF juries

    The BFI LONDON Film Festival listens to two Austrian voices in the juries: Jessica Hausner will preside over the jury of First Feature Competition, giving away the Sutherland Award. Sudabeh Mortezai, winner of the Best Film Award 2018 for Joy, has been invited to join the official competition jury to decide on the most outstanding film of this year’s main competition. 

    «... slyly profound and oddly entertaining»

    Views from Toronto: NOBADI reveals itself to be a work both slyly profound and oddly entertaining, challenging assumptions right up until the final frame, wrote Redmond Bacon in his review on Goomba Stomp. And there is still more.
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    «Es ist das menschliche Maß abhanden gekommen.»

    Ulli Gladik
    Während die SPÖ nach und nach an Bedeutung als Arbeiterpartei einbüßt, legt die FPÖ in der Wählerschaft der „kleinen Leute“ kontinuierlich zu. Warum der Weg der Wähler von links nach rechts außen so ein kurzer ist, wollte die Filmemacherin Ulrike Gladik in ihrem Dokumentarfilm INLAND herausfinden und hat über eineinhalb Jahre hinweg drei Wiener FPÖ-WählerInnen aufmerksam zugehört.
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    «Wie ein Tanz auf engstem Raum»

    Es war nur ein minimal verändertes Original-Cockpit, in das Patrick Vollrath sein Spielfilmdebüt 7500 gepackt hat. Ein- und Rückblicke von Kameramann Sebastian Thaler, wie sich ein 92-minütiger Horrortrip von Berlin nach Hannover auf nur wenigen Quadratmetern in spannungsgeladene Bilder fangen ließ.
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    «The point is to act in the present.»

    Karl Markovics
    The world is a small place for old Herr Senft in his little garden house, and now that he has lost his dog and last companion, it's a solitary existence as well. Chance brings a young Afghan into his house, and in just a few hours it is transformed for both men into the cave of the Cyclops, with no escape for either. NOBADI, Karl Markovics's darkest story to date, focusses on the fragility of identity, the legacy of failure to act and the chances of the present moment.

    Toronto 2019: World premiere of NOBADI by Karl Markovics

    An old man and a young refugee – they couldn’t have less in common – meet by pure chance and get inextricably tied together. In his third feature film, his darkest one to date, Karl Markovics explores the fatal connections between identity and existence. NOBADI will make its first appearance on screen at  the 44th TORONTO IFF, celebrating its world premiere in the Contemporary World Cinema section.

    With JOY into the Oscar race

    The Austrian Oscar committee has selected JOY by Sudabeh Mortezai as Austria’s submission to the Oscar-nominations in the International Feature Film category.
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    FAZ on SPACE DOGS: «An enlightening cinematic essay ...

    ...that overtopped the Locarno competition 'Cineasti del presente'“, wrote Michael Ranze of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on the directorial debut from Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter. Film Comment’s Jessica Green stated, „It’s like a dog version of Grizzly Man. Brutal but also deeply sensitive – a complex work that got under my skin.“ Read more press quotes.
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    «A dog’s heart. A dog’s soul.»

    Elsa Kremser, Levin Peter
    Laika, the world's most famous dog astronaut, was a child of the Moscow streets. She did not survive her mission in the space capsule, but perhaps her spirit returned to our world: perhaps her descendants still roam the streets of the Russian capital to this day. Filmmakers Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter joined up with a pack of stray dogs in order to see Moscow at night through their eyes.

    LITTLE JOE and JOY in the race for EFA

    The European Film Academy has announced a list of 46 feature films eligible for European Film Awards 2019, including two outstanding works from Austrian female directors: JOY by Sudabeh Mortezai and LITTLE JOE by Jessica Hausner. Nominations will be unveiled at the Sevilla FF on November 9. The Austrian-German co-production HEIMAT IS A SPACE IN TIME is one of the 12 selected films running for Best European Documentary 2019.

    Variety: «An auspicious calling card for Vollrath»

    Patrick Vollrath has delivered on his promise of his Oscar-nominated short Everything Will Be Okay with his first feature-length title "7500" – which premiered at Locarno’s  Piazza Grande: «an undeniably visceral, well-executed debut feature, wrote Allan Hunter of Screen International. REad more of the Locarno reviews
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    «Für JOY war es ein optimaler Multiplikator.»

    Hat ein Arthouse-Film das Interesse von Netflix erweckt, so kann ein Deal den Verzicht auf die weltweite Festivaltournee bedeuten. Für JOY gab’s beides: Nach einer eindrucksvollen Serie von Festivals und Preisen, die in Venedig ihren Ausgang nahm, ist Sudabeh Mortezais zweiter Spielfilm seit Ende Mai auf Netflix verfügbar und erreicht sein Publikum fern der Kinosäle. Ein kurzer Erfahrungsaustausch mit der Regisseurin.

    Locarno 2019: SPACE DOGS in Cineasti del Presente

    In their directorial debut Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter joined up with a pack of stray dogs in Moscow in order to discover the city through their eyes. In remembrance of the famous dog astronaut Laika, they interweave the wild lives of their animal protagonists with impressive archive footage from the space race in the 1960s. Patrick Vollrath's 7500, a German-Austrian co-production, will screen on the Piazza Grande.

    Cannes 2019: Best Actress Award to Emily Beecham

    A red flower that makes people feel happy, a palm that makes us even more than happy!
    Emily Beecham who plays the lead character in Jessica Hausner’s LITTLE JOE wins the Best Actress award at the 72nd Cannes festival for her subtle and nuanced interpretation of Alice, a high-talented genetic engineer and loving single-mum of a 12-year-old boy.

    START-STipendiat*innen 2019

    Die Ideen zu drei Spielfilmen, einem Dokumentarfilm und erstmals in der zehnjährigen Geschichte des START-Stipendiums auch zu einem Animationsfilm können im Zuge eines sechmonatigen Arbeitsstipendiums von jungen Künstlerinnen und Künstlern ausgereift und weiterentwickelt werden.

    NYT on LITTLE JOE:  «a mordant, amusing movie»

    Thomas Sotinel of Le Monde wrote on LITTLE JOE: ... This does not prevent this virtuoso film from being irrefutably modern, from putting the sacrilegious audacity of science at the service of the most corrosive satire and the most vertiginous existential questions. More reviews

    LILLIAN: «A fascinating walk through a mysterious land.»

    The Austrian photographer and director combines his knowledge of the American Midwest and the Yukon in an enigmatic road movie — never was a term more descriptive — that is at once a portrait of female spirit and determination and a reflection on the loneliness at the heart of America today, wrote Deborah Young of THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER. more reviews

    KAVIAR at Sydney's Europe! Voices of Women in Film

    Launched by the European Film Promotion in 2016 EUROPE! VOICES OF WOMEN IN FILM showcases ten European films by female directors at Australia’s premier international film festival. KAVIAR by Elena Tikhonova is part of this selection.

    JOY on Netflix

    JOY worldwide: As of May 24, 2019  Sudabeh Mortezai’s acclaimed second feature film JOY is available for the international audience all around the globe on Netflix . The only territories excepted are Austria and South Tyrol.
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    «Sparkling and strange...»

    Jessica Hausner
    Alice’s son Joe satisfies her maternal needs, and in her career she has also achieved tangible success: the flower she has genetically engineered, Little Joe, is a beautiful sight which promises to bring happiness to everyone around it. But suddenly things seem to turn against Alice in almost indefinable ways. In her fifth feature film, LITTLE JOE, Jessica Hausner unleashes the forces of cinema only to have them combine in virtuoso fashion, creating on film a homage to doubt.
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    «A de-accelerated road movie»

    Andreas Horvath
    When her attempt to establish herself in New York fails, Lillian resolves to head back home to Russia. She sets off west on foot, crossing the American mainland to the Bering Strait, where Russia and the USA almost physically touch and where the dividing line between two days is drawn. Andreas Horvath’s LILLIAN traverses the layers of the continent as it follows the trail of a lonely wanderer in a road movie which appears to transcend forwards and backwards motion.

    Red carpet for a red lily: World premiere of LITTLE JOE in Cannes

    Jessica Hausner, a Cannes invitee since 1999, tops her performance at the Croisette with her first entry to the Palme d’or-competition and her first English-language film LITTLE JOE. Alice, a high-talented genetic engineer, has created a crimson flower of stunning beauty, but also inexplicable powers. A coop99 production with The Bureau (UK) and Essential Films (D) starring Emily Beecham, Ben Wishaw, Kerry Fox.
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    «Jumping straight into the non-mundane.»

    Martin Monk
    Martin Monk wondered how far he could go with a road movie in short film format – and resolved to confront the clear formal challenge. In FAVOURITES he tells the story of an accidental encounter between a 17-year-old girl hitchhiker and a car driver who could be her father, a brief interaction between two generations and their unanswered questions about life. In fact the project has taken the student of directing at the Vienna Film Academy a long way: he has been awarded a place in the Cinéfondation series, the section for young talent at the Cannes Film Festival.

    Cannes 2019: Quinzaine des réalisateurs with LILLIAN by Andreas Horvath

    The 51st edition of the Cannes parallel section will host the world premiere of Andreas Horvath's LILLIAN, a road movie that goes straigth across the USA into the cold of Alaska.

    Grand Prix Cinéma du réel to MOVEMENTS OF A NEARBY MOUNTAIN

    Sebastian Brameshuber's new essay is the portrait of a man and a place, observing a determined loner as he goes about his work inside and outside time. The Grand Prix of Cinéma du Réel has been unanimously attributed to MOVEMENTS OF A NEARBY MOUNTAIN, "...Thanks to the elegance of his mise en scène and inventive use of the off-screen dimension...

    DEMOCRACY LTD by Robert Schabus at CPH DOX

    Robert Schabus examines the question why populist politicians meet with such strong resonance in European democracies. His new film DEMOCRACY LTD celebrates its world premiere as a contender in the F:ACT Award competition and as opening film of the focus on Europe. Also screening in Copenhagen: THE BORDER FENCE by Nikolaus Geyrhalter, SEA OF SHADOWS by Richard Ladkani.
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    «Democracy means creating an open area for debate.»

    Robert Schabus

    Is his documentary film DEMOCRACY LTD Robert Schabus investigates the crisis in European democracy, focussing especially on the failure of the political elite to listen to the needs of the people. The filmmaker explored the situation in the run-up to the 2017 elections in France and Germany, analysed the aftermath of the referendums in Great Britain and Greece and looked closely at Austria, now with a right wing government, in an attempt to understand why populism has met with such powerful resonance in these democracies.

     
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    «The first issue that struck me was that of invisibility.»

    Nathalie Borgers
    For her documentary film THE REMAINS – AFTER THE ODYSSEY, Nathalie Borgers proceeds from the statistics on refugees attempting to reach Europe and adds an individual, human dimension to the sober facts and figures. In her film, shot on Lesbos and in Vienna, she investigates the visible and invisible traces left by attempts to make the dangerous Mediterranean crossing – on the coastlines, in the survivors and in those who provide what humanitarian help they can in exceptional circumstances.
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    «Create a space where the present and the past overlap.»

    Sebastian Brameshuber
    Cliff’s garage, where he prepares used cars and second-hand parts for sale and export, is a very special place. And the Nigerian metal dealer, who has built up a business in Austria over the years all by himself, is an extremely distinctive character. In his essay MOVEMENTS OF A NEARBY MOUNTAIN Sebastian Brameshuber creates a portrait of a man and a place, observing a determined loner as he goes about his work inside and outside time, thus bringing history and the present to life in the setting of the Erzberg iron ore mining region in Styria.

    Retrospectives RUTH BECKERMANN in Paris, Sarajevo, Bukarest ...

    The Musee d’art et d’histoire du Judaisme in Paris is hosting a Ruth Beckermann Retrospektive from April 4 to 7, opening with the most successful Austrian film at international festivals in 2018 THE WALDHEIM WALTZ.  Just recently, Ruth Beckermann was also the focus of retrospectives at the Sarajevo Winter Festival and the One World Romania festival in Bukarest.

    A GERMAN LIFE on stage in London

    A GERMAN LIFE, Brunhilde Pomsel’s compelling testimony about her youth and time as Joseph Goebbels’ secretary in the core of the Nazi power apparatus has been adapted for the stage by Christopher Hampton. The LONDON Bridge Theatre will be presenting the piece starring MAGGIE SMITH from April 6 to May 11, 2019.

    «A gripping, intelligent psychodrama»

    Marie Kreutzer’s Golden Bear competition entry THE GROUND BENEATH MY FEET seen by the press:
    Variety highlights „a gripping, intelligent psychodrama“,  The Hollywood Reporter points out the „depth of insight that is rare in the cinematic treatment of this most misunderstood of diseases“. read more

    Berlinale 2019: The Ecumenical Jury Prize goes to EARTH ...

    ... by Nikolaus Geyrhalter and two more distinctions to German-Austrian co-productions:  BORN IN EVIN by Maryam Zaree wins the Compass Perspective Prize, Thomas Heise’s Forum entry HEIMAT IS A SPACE IN TIME wins the Caligari Prize. Here are the jury statements ...
     

    Berlinale 2019: DIE KINDER DER TOTEN wins FIPRESCI prize

    Performance artists Kelly Copper & Pavol Liska (The Nature Theater of Oklahoma) impressed the Berlinale film critics who awared the FIPRESCI Prize to their first cinematic work DIE KINDER DER TOTEN, a silent and gruesome march of the undead, inspired by the overwhelming novel of Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek.
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    «We all function in a performance-oriented society.»

    Marie Kreutzer
    Lola does everything she can to disown her sister, while Conny does everything she can to compel attention from her sister. Marie Kreutzer’s THE GROUND BENEATH MY FEET follows two women, at first sight such complete opposites, as they struggle with family links and the merciless professional world in their attempt to save themselves.

    The Guardian: «Geyrhalter proves again that he is a unique figure in world cinema.»

    „You’ve heard of climate change but this latest documentary-spectacle from Austrian filmmaker Nikolaus Geyrhalter is about landscape change. Read more of the GUARDIAN-review on EARTH by Peter Bradshaw.

    3 nominees for the Glashütte Original-Documentary Award

    The Berlinale has announced the entries for the Glashütte Original-Documentary Award 2019.
    EARTH by Nikolaus Geyrhalter as well as the German-Austrian co-productions BORN IN EVIN by Maryam Zaree and HEIMAT IS A SPACE IN TIME by Thomas Heise are among the 17 contenders for the Berlinale Best Documentary Award. Last year this distinction endowed with € 50, 000 went to Ruth Beckermann’s THE WALDHEIM WALTZ.
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    «The Earth's crust – its skin – is its most delicate organ.»

    Nikolaus Geyrhalter
    The concept of the Anthropocene Age, suggesting that humankind has become a greater influence on the planet than nature, is what prompted Nikolaus Geyrhalter to take a closer look in EARTH at the Earth's crust and the internal and external wounds which our drive for progress relentlessly requires.
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    «Film is a medium of transmission – not only of story, but of spirit. »

    Kelly Copper, Pavol Liška – Nature Theater of Oklahoma
    Elfriede Jelinek’s powerfully eloquent novel provided the literary basis for the film project DIE KINDER DER TOTEN , where the American performance artists Kelly Copper & Pavol Liska stage a gruesomely eccentric march of the undead in silent film format.
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    «It became our premise that this movie had to save our lives.»

    Kelly Copper and Pavol Liska resolved to adapt Elfriede Jelinek's huge work Die Kinder der Toten without any knowledge of the German language, in order to experiment with the genre of the Heimatfilm in Upper Styria together with the local population. Claus Philipp, artistic associate and dramaturg on DIE KINDER DER TOTEN, provided them with extensive notes to facilitate access to the linguistic density of the 666-page magnum opus; he was involved from the very start in preparing the ground for this unique project combining film, performance and the audience.
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    «I like the genre of comedy because essentially it depicts sad things.»

    A Russian businessman plans to construct a villa on a bridge in the center of Vienna, and a number of Viennese people with connections in high places are eager to help him out. Filmmaker Elena Tikhonova, who is from Russia herself but has been living in Austria for years, investigates a clash of mentalities in her first comedy, CAVIAR, demonstrating that you can have plenty of fun with Russian oligarchs and Viennese deal-makers – provided you know their weaknesses.
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    «Konzentration auf die innere Bewegung»

    Bettina Henkel
    Wenn sich Bettina Henkel an ihre Kindheit erinnerte, dann passten manche Dinge nicht zusammen. Ungereimtheiten und Unbehagen, die sie veranlassten, mit ihrem Vater die Orte seiner Kindheit aufzusuchen und in KINDER UNTER DECK der baltisch-deutschen Familiengeschichte während des Nationalsozialismus auf den Grund zu gehen. Eine bewegende Begegnung zwischen den Generationen auf den Etappen einer sehr persönlichen Reise an vertraute Orte, blinde Flecken und wunde Punkte.

    Berlinale 2019: Austrian films in Competition and Forum

    On top of Marie Kreutzer's Golden Bear contender THE GROUND BENEATH MY FEET the Berlinale Forum hosts the world premiere of Nikolaus Geyrhalter's new film EARTH as well as the first feature film of performance artists Kelly Copper and Pavol Liska with their haunting and witty Super-8-approach to Elfriede Jelinek's major novel DIE KINDER DER TOTEN.
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    «Online encounters have a lot to do with the person's own projections.»

    In Gregor Schmidinger’s debut feature film NEVRLAND two young men become lost in a labyrinth between childhood and growing up, between the virtual world and reality, until he sends his protagonists Jakob and Kristjan, both members of Generation Y, plunging into the terrifying depths of their own psyche.

    Young Austrian cinema sweeps 7 awards at MOP Saarbrücken

    Each of the three Austrian contenders in the main Max Ophüls Prize competition took at least one major award: JOY by Sudabeh Mortezai the MOPs for the socially relevant film and best young actress Joy Alphonsus, NEVRLAND by Gregor Schmidinger the MOPs of the Youth Jury and for best young actor Simon Frühwirth, KAVIAR by Elena Tikhonova the MOP Audience Award.
     

    Ludwig Wüst in focus at Arsenal

    One year after the world premiere of Ludwig Wüst’s latest film Departure at the Berlinale Forum 2018, the Berlin based ARSENAL Kino dedicates a retrospective to the film- and theater director LUDWIG WÜST and his intense and idiosyncratic cinematic language from Feb 1 to 3, 2019.

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