Eight Austrian films selected for 18th Sarajevo’s festival line-up: Florian Flicker’s new  film CROSSING BOUNDARIES premieres in the feature film competition.

Competition Fiction Films
● Florian Flicker: CROSSING  BOUNDARIES (world premiere)
● Ruth Mader: WHAT IS LOVE

Competition Documentary Films
● Ed Moschitz: MAMA ILLEGAL
● Timo Novotny: TRAINS OF THOUGHTS

Competition Short Films
● Catalina Molina: UNSER LIED

In Focus
● Michael Haneke: AMOUR
● Ulrich Seidl: PARADIES: LIEBE

New Currents
● Michael Glawogger: WHORES’ GLORY

COMPETITION Fiction Films


GRENZGÄNGER by Florian Flicker (world premiere)
(Prisma Film)
supported by: Österreichisches Filminstitut, ORF, FISA, Filmfonds Wien, Land Niederösterreich

A lovestory about two man and a woman, struggling between love, passion and crime.
A dramatic romance between seeing and being, dignity and betrayal of lovers.


with: Andreas Lust, Andrea Wenzl, Stefan Pohl

WHAT IS LOVE by Ruth Mader (KGP Kranzelbinder Gabriele Filmproduction)
supported by: Österreichisches Filminstitut, ORF, FISA, Filmfonds Wien

This film is a portrait of life, a portrait of people with varying life plans. It asks the meaning of life, about how to fill the gap between birth and death, and what is happiness. Short documentary pieces tell the stories of some very different protagonists of a generation: from the forest-owning family in their stately home to the factory worker following her daily routine.


COMPETITION Documentary Films


MAMA ILLEGAL by Ed Moschitz (Golden Girls Filmproduction)
supported by: Österreichisches Filminstitut, ORF, Filmfonds Wien

They gave the smugglers all their money and risk their life on their journey across borders: three women from a small town in Moldavia, living now in Austria as cleaning women. On top of their hard jobs they live a life in illegality without documents, far away from their children and family for years. A film about the price of the dream of a better life.


TRAINS OF THOUGHTS by Timo Novotny
(Orbrock Filmproduktion, inLoops)

supported by: Österreichisches Filminstitut, ORF, Filmfonds Wien, Arte



Trains of Thoughts is an audio-visual essay, which reflects upon and compares metro-systems around the world. It is an exploration of a world inside the world as well as the feelings fascination, obsession, fear, and themes of survival, control and silence that revolve it. The film will take you through New York, Los Angeles, Moscow, Vienna, Tokyo and Hongkong, unleashing the imagination at every destination with its distinctive palette of visuals and selection.

COMPETITION Short Films

UNSER LIED by Catalina Molina
supported by: Land Niederösterreich, CineArt Steiermark, Stadt Graz, MA 7 - Stadt Wien, VAM, Verein der Freunde der Filmakademie, Stadt St. Pölten

Father by day and musician by night; as a single parent, Coni barely gets by. A faded photograph is the only reminder of his daughter’s mother. But one day, shortly after Coni seems to be over her, she shows up again. Wrapped in a fictional storyline, "Unser Lied" is the study of a real father-daughter relationship, whose tenderness comes across powerfully in its visual portrayal.

with: Conrado Molina, Namiya Ettl, Emily Cox, Natalie Assmann, Michael Fuith


IN FOCUS

AMOUR by Michael Haneke
PARADISE: LOVE by Ulrich Seidl


NEW CURRENTS

WHORES’ GLORY by Michael Glawogger