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    «... 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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    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.

    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

    «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
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    film comment on JOY: Impressively distilled in plot and style

    Impressively distilled in plot and style, Joy nonetheless explores (but does not untie) a formidable knot of issues around money, migration, motherhood, race, policing, pragmatism, and violence both personal and systemic. Read more of Nick Davis’ thoughts on JOY in film comment.
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    THE WALDHEIM WALTZ – "film of the week" by Spiegel.online

    WALDHEIM’S WALTZ by Ruth Beckermann hits the screens in Germany and Switzerland and enchants the critics ...
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    Variety: «formally stunning and politically seething»

    «Schleinzer’s film takes a chillingly but aptly clinical view of a life treated as an amusing human experiment by all but the man living it.»Read more of Variety’s astute review of Markus Schleinzer’s sophomore film ANGELO, released at Toronto and San Sebastián.
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    Screen International: « ... a genuinely arresting arthouse must-watch»

    «Markus Schleinzer’s supremely assured second feature is, in its own way, as profoundly uncomfortable as his 2011 debut, Michael; (...) Inspired by the life of Viennese ‘Court Moor’ Angelo Soliman, ANGELO is a mesmerising portrait of a man of quiet dignity whose very humanity is denied by those around.» A review by Screen International. Read more.
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    Variety: «A standout in this year’s Venice Days program»

    «Austrian-Iranian filmmaker Sudabeh Mortezai doubles down on the promise of 'Macondo' with a tough, fully inhabited portrayal of Nigerian migrant sex workers.» Read more of Variety's enthusiastic review of the Venice Hearst Award-winner JOY

     « ... drastically, essentially different»

    The New Yorker took a close and sensitive look at Sara Fattahi’s Pardo-winning essay CHAOS: «It’s a conversational film about silence, a visually complex film about invisibility, a film about the possibility of making a film about the war and what’s been lost in it.»
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    START-Stipendiat*innen 2018

    Ein dokumentarischer, zwei halbdokumentarische und zwei fiktionale Stoffe, einige davon mit einer deutlich autobiografischen Note – so sieht die Projektpalette bei den START-Stipendien auf, die für 2018 im Bereich Film vergeben wurden.
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    Film Gender Report
    2012 – 2016

    Kulturpolitische Maßnahmen seitens des Bundeskanzleramtes.
    Eine Information aus dem Büro des Bundesministers.

    Clear, impassioned but never polemical

    ... that’s what Variety stated about Ruth Beckermann’s astute revisiting of the 1986 Waldheim affair that lead to the collapse of Austria’s comforting narrative of being the first nazi victim. Read more about the Austrians on the Berlinale screens.
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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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    «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.
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    «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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    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.
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    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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    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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    Publikation: Ruth Beckermann

    Ruth Beckermann
    Die Flaneurin ist nicht nur Titel eines Filmprojekts aus den neunziger Jahren, das leider unrealisiert blieb. Bei Ruth Beckermann spiegelt sich in diesem Motiv auch ihr filmisches Bewegungsmuster wider. Band 29 der FilmmuseumSynema Publikationen hat sich ihrem filmischen Oeuvre gewidmet.
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    The Film Year 2016

    2016 has been a year which has prompted rare approval from critics, festival juries and cinema audiences alike. Take a look back with us at the year of THE DREAMED ONES, TOMCAT, HOMO SAPIENS, SAFARI, MISTER UNIVERSO, BROTHERS OF THE NIGHT and many more
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    Publikation: Räume in der Zeit. Die Filme von Nikolaus Geyrhalter

    Räume in der Zeit hat Alejandro Bachmann seine soeben im Sonderzahl-Verlag erschienene Publikation zum Oeuvre Nikolaus Geyrhalters  genannt, denn, so der Herausgeber, „Kino bei Geyrhalter ist Raumerfahrung“.
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    START-StipendiatInnen 2015

    Drei dokumentarische und ein fiktionaler Stoff  sowie ein semidokumentarischer Zugang: so fächert sich das Spektrum der Projekte auf, die 2015 in den Genuss des START-Stipendiums für Film gekommen sind.
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    Publikation: Michael Glawogger – 69 Hotelzimmer

    Michael Glawoggers Romandebüt  in der Anderen Bibliothek erschienen.
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    Weinenden und lachenden Auges ... ein Rückblick auf das Filmjahr 2014

    Das Filmjahr 2014 mag noch so fulminant mit elf (Ko-)Produktionen allein bei der Berlinale begonnen, mit Premieren in Cannes, Venedig, San Sebastián einen noch so glänzenden Verlauf genommen haben, in der Bilanz 2014 schlägt die Waage diesmal dennoch auf der Seite der Verluste aus.
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    «It has cult potential stamped all over it.»

    Hollywood Reporter hails GOODNIGHT MOMMY, feature debut by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, presented at the Venice Orizzonti section and at the Toronto International Film Festival. Read more
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    Michael Haneke: Sonning Prize Laureate 2014

    Michael Haneke ist awarded the prestigious Danish Sonning Prize for outstanding contributions to European culture. As Sonning laureate Michael Haneke follows Orhan Pamuk (2012), Hans Magnus Enzensberger (2010).
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    «A complex and exquisitely filmed exploration of a man's desire to find a woman willing to die with him.» The  Hollywood Reporter

    Press reviews on  Jessica Hausner's AMOUR FOU after its world premiere at Un Certain Regard (Cannes)
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    Publikation: Katharina Müller –  Haneke Keine Biografie

    Katharina Müllers Dissertation, der eine dreijährige Forschungsarbeit just in den Jahren, wo Hanekes internationaler Erfolg kulminiert, zugrunde liegt, ist kein Close-up, sondern eine Totale. Hanekes Kino als umfassende Fallstudie. Global und vielstimmig.
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    Good-bye, Michael Glawogger

    Michael Glawogger
    We are  shocked and deeply sad to learn that Michael Glawogger has passed on. Michael Glawogger was one of the most prolific  Austrian filmmakers, an eminent documentarist, globally acclaimed for his breathtaking and irritating documentaries like Whores' Glory, Workingman's Death and Megacities.
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    Publikation: HANEKE ÜBER HANEKE von Michel Cieutat und Philippe Rouyer (Hg.)

    Acht Fernseharbeiten gingen Michael Hanekes erstem Kinofilm Der siebente Kontinent voran, keine davon ist bisher auf DVD erschienen. Ausführliche Gedanken darüber gibt es allerdings nun zum Nachlesen: Die französischen Filmpublizisten Michel Cieutat und Philippe Rouyer haben Michael Haneke vors Mikrofon gebeten und in rund fünfzig Stunden Interviews chronologisch seinen Werdegang und sein filmisches Schaffen beginnend mit ... und was kommt danach (After Liverpool)  aus dem Jahr 1974 unter die Lupe genommen.
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    Gustav Deutsch: VISIONS OF REALITY in Postproduktion

    In Visions of Reality hat Gustav Deutsch dreizehn Gemälde von Edward Hopper zum Ausgangspunkt für die Geschichte einer amerikanischen Frau im 20. Jh. gewählt und sie in einem minutiösen Spiel mit Hoppers Malerei für die Leinwand inszeniert.

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