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    «Poetic, cheeky, bawdy and surprising.»

    Marcus H. Rosenmüller
    Caricaturist Manfred Deix had an unrelenting view of his compatriots: portly and deformed in stature, lecherous, reactionary and hostile to foreigners in manner: thus the Deixian depiction of the average Austrian is preserved in countless publications. Deix’s provincial childhood in the Lower Austria of the 1950s and 60s may have provided the first impulses for his drawings; it has certainly proved inspirational for the first full-length Austrian animation film, directed by Marcus H. Rosenmüller und Santiago López Jover. SNOTTY BOY borrows the spirit and silhouettes from Deix’s cosmos of characters, portraying with humor and a light touch the confines of an era which resonates down to the present day in terms of certain political attitudes.
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    «My first impression was definitely a shock.»

    Santiago López Jover
    SNOTTY BOY, Austria’s first feature length animation film, borrows the spirit and silhouettes from the unique cosmos created by late Austrian caricaturist Manfred Deix. Santiago López Jover co-directed the film together with Marcus H. Rosenmüller adding his profound experience as animation artist to this ambitious project that respectfully translates the essence of the legendary cartoons.
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    «In vielerlei Hinsicht zwsichen den Welten.»

    Clara Stern
    Wenn sie arbeitet, tut Mira das in den Weinbergen ihrer Familie. Wenn sie frei hat, dann gehört ihre Zeit dem Eishockeysport, für den sie intensiv trainiert und sich als Kapitänin ihres Teams voll einsetzt. Mira, die Protagonistin von WENN WIR DIE REGELN BRECHEN, ist eine eigenwillige junge Frau, die wie am Eis zwischen ihren Welten gleitet, sich verliert und wiederfindet. Clara Sterns Spielfilmdebüt wurde im Frühling 2021 abgedreht.
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    «Schau, ein Deix.»

    Es war ein Sprung ins kalte Wasser. Ein Animationsfilm in der Länge eines Kinofilms war zuvor noch keiner in Österreich entstanden. Ästhetik und Spirit der Karikaturen des österreichischen Unikums Manfred Deix einer filmischen Erzählung zugrunde zu legen, war eine gewagte Idee. Der Mut zum Pioniergeist hat sich gelohnt. Produzent Josef Aichholzer über eine lange Reise mit dem österreichischen Animationserstling ROTZBUB, der mit der Weltpremiere beim renommierten Festival von Annecy seine ersten Lorbeeren erntet.
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    «Where are we all going?»

    Jasmila Žbanić
    Aida is running. Racing desperately, helplessly between the central offices of the Crisis Unit at the UN safe area and the perimeter fence, which is secured by armed soldiers. As a local interpreter, can she possibly do anything to help the inhabitants of her home town? Get her own family in saftety? Rescue at least one of her sons? In her film QUO VADIS, AIDA? Jasmila Žbanić has captured the harrowing events of the Srebrenica massacre in 11 July 1995 with compelling immediacy, earning her an Oscar nomination for Best International Feature and the Independent Spirit Award.
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    «An adventure film with a scary factor.»

    Daniel Geronimo Prochaska
    It’s a daring step for Sabine and her two sons, Hendrik and Eddie, moving from northern Germany to a village in the southernmost corner of Austria to begin a new life after the death of her husband. When their new house in Carinthia starts to display signs that invisible forces are at work, the boys find two courageous kids their own age in the village, and the gang of four set about exposing mysteries that have been hidden for years. THE SCARY HOUSE is Daniel Prochaska’s cinema debut, a striking bid to initiate younger audiences into horror movies with a light-hearted touch.
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    «He is the person he wants to be.»

    Harald Aue
    It isn’t so often that a person establishes a circus the size of Roncalli without having grown up in the milieu of artistes and acrobats. The personal union of Zippo the Clown and Bernhard Paul the director has determined the identity of this circus for decades: an arena which provides a very special stage for the artistry of the clown, both serious and rib-tickling. In his documentary film A CLOWN, A LIFE Harald Aue focuses on Bernhard Paul both with and without the face of a clown: the circus-maker, the collector of old bric-a-brac, and the boy who always remained true to his childhood dreams.


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    «Ahmet’s search for tears»

    Jannis Lenz
    Ahmet Simsek has lived his life in Austria since childhood. As a medic in the Austrian army, state champion in boxing, son of a Turkish-Muslim family in Vienna, he could be tagged with several labels at once. But Jannis Lenz goes against common expectations: in his portrait SOLDIER AHMET he follows a multitalented young man who hasn't cried since he was twelve and had to learn early on to craft his own place.
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    «Es geht um viel.»

    Auf die Idealline hat er ebenso gepfiffen wie auf die neueste Schi-Technologie, dennoch hat Franz Klammer mit seiner verwegenen Fahrt vom Patscherkofel in weniger als zwei Minuten österreichische Sportgeschichte geschrieben. Elisabeth und Andreas Schmied sind zu jung, um diesen Moment miterlebt zu haben, der Faszination des Phänomens Klammer konnten sie sich nicht entziehen. Gemeinsam schrieben sie das Drehbuch zu KLAMMER, das den Fokus auf die wenigen Tage vor der legendären Olympiafahrt setzt. Andreas Schmied realisiert damit seinen sechsten Kinofilm, der dem Menschen und Mythos Franz Klammer auf der Spur ist und einen Moment der kollektiven Freude aufleben lässt.
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    «Ich würde mir für die Zukunft hybride Lösungen wünschen.»

    Es sind nicht mehr als fünf bis acht Filme, um die der Katalog des kleinen, feinen Verleih & Vertriebs filmdelights jährlich wächst und die Sorgfalt in der Auswahl hat sich gelohnt. 2020, im zehnten Jahr des Bestehens von filmdelights feierten nicht nur sieben österreichische Produktionen von Filmemacherinnen ihre Premieren, es gingen die Hauptpreise der Diagonale für den jeweils besten österreichischen Spiel- und Dokumentarfilm an Arbeiten aus dem Verleih, Sabine Derflingers Portrait Die Dohnal war im schwierigen Corona-Jahr auch der erfolgreichste Dokumentarfilm an Österreichs Kinokassen. Ein Gespräch mit der Geschäftsführerin Christa Auderlitzky.
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    «Nobody could get away from that»

    July 1995, Srebrenica. General Mladic sweeps to power, the UN mission fails miserably, the Bosnian population is massacred.  UN interpreter Aïda is obliged to watch helplessly as a tragedy of unimaginable proportions befalls the city and her family within one day. Filmmaker Jasmila Žbanić, originally from Bosnia, plunges into the epicentre of this crime against humanity in QUO VADIS, AÏDA?, 25 years after the mass murder at Srebrenica, when betrayal and failure led to the deaths of thousands of people. She depicts the terrible force of the collective drama as it strikes each individual character in the film. Vienna-based coop99 filmproduktion is one of the international co-producers on this project, which will be among the 18 competitors for the Golden Lion at the 77th Venice Film Festival. A conversation with the DoP of QUO VADIS, AÏDA?, Christine A. Maier.
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    «Stories that should be told»

    Tatia Skhirtladze
    They were born within the same generation and came from the same city. They were virtually neighbours, sometimes colleagues and sometimes rivals, but above all: in the 1970s and 80s they were the queens of international women’s chess. The Georgian women Nona Gaprindashvili, Nana Alexandria, Maia Chiburdanidze and Nana Ioseliani were dominant at the very peak of female chess for almost 30 years and also challenged the elite male players. In Georgia they were national heroines, but in the West – outside specialist circles – they are almost completely unknown. Filmmaker Tatia Skhirtladze, whose home is Vienna, plans to change all this with GLORY TO THE QUEEN.
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    «Elections aren’t about content any more.»

    Elke Groen
    Pinkafeld is a small town in Austria where the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) has absolute majority in the town council. Pinkafeld is also the hometown of far-right politician Norbert Hofer from the Freedom Party (FPÖ)… and 70% of voters in this “red” community voted for him in the Austrian presidential election. Filmmaker Elke Groen examines the growing polarization of society and the completely blurred ideological lines revealed by people’s voting habits. THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PLACE ON EARTH is an attempt to understand.
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    «The world was our living room.»

    Cycling from Austria to Australia. It sounds like the sort of thing two harden triathletes might try, to set themselves a new challenge. But Andreas Buciuman and Dominik Bochis, two averagely fit guys, wanted to see if they could handle an adventure taking them to the other side of the world. The bicycle seemed ideal: fast enough to manage the distance in about a year but slow enough to meet the world on the way. AUSTRIA2AUSTRALIA documents a courageous cycling quest across three continents, a story of daring to dream and having the determination to believe in it.
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    «I am a simultaneous interpreter of the natural.»

    Michael Kreihsl
    Arnold is a renowned architect. His projects venture higher and higher into the sky, and his family life also appears to be a flawless edifice. But it turns out to have extremely fragile foundations when his wife tells him one day that she needs a donor kidney. Inspired by the theatre piece Die Niere, Michael Kreihsl puts a single question to two sound couples in RISKS AND SIDE EFFECTS and catapults them out of their structured happiness.
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    «I’m looking forward to being a kind of sparring partner.»

    Jessica Hausner
    When Jessica Hausner began studying Directing at the Vienna Film Academy in the early 1990s she felt not only that powerful female role models in the cinematic arts were lacking but also that there was not sufficient encouraging feedback about her own early narrative attempts. The short film Inter-View marked the conclusion of her studies and the beginning of a career which took her straight to the top festivals of Cannes and Venice. From that moment on there was no lack of resonance. Now Jessica Hausner is returning to the place where she began her artistic endeavors as Professor of Directing – the first woman in almost 70 years of Film Academy history to hold that position.
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    «Vive le cinéma!»

    Geplant war es nicht, umso geglückter die Fügung: im Dezember 2020 feierte seine gemeinsam mit Bady Minck gegründete Produktionsfirma Amour Fou ihr 25-jähriges Jubiläum, quasi zeitgleich übernahm Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu seine Funktion als Obmann des Fachverbands der Film- und Musikwirtschaft in der WKO. Die lange Erfahrung aus der Filmproduktion ebenso wie der Schock und die Schäden, die die Covid-Krise in der Kulturbranche hinterlassen hat, werden die Strategien bestimmen, die den kommenden Jahren für ein Produktionsvolumen sorgen sollen, das deutlich größer, grüner und weiblicher, jung und inklusiv sein soll.
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    «I think that prison makes even more criminals, espescially at that adolescent age»

    Arman T. Riahi in a video conversation
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    «Like an extended prison.»

    By the middle of March only 21 of the scheduled 32 shooting days for Sebastian Meise’s second feature film GREAT FREEDOM Freedom, with Georg Friedrich and Franz Rogowski in the leading roles, were in the can when everything was shut down. But at the end of June FreibeuterFilm was the first production company to resume filming, and they finished the shoot. A conversation with the producers about their current feature film GREAT FREEDOM, Stefan Ruzowitzky’s HINTERLAND and the new approach to production, in zones and on Zoom.
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    «What the earth provides us with»

    For Elias, a farmer’s son in the Zillertal valley, the future seemed mapped out from early childhood. But when he comes of age and is due to inherit his father’s extensive property, he simply runs away: from the valley, from the expectations, from the money and from the greed. And he does find fulfilment – in total solitude, with a frugal existence above the tree line. Until 40 years later, when he turns his back on the life of a hermit as radically as he once embraced it. Initially a play by Felix Mitterer, MÄRZENGRUND inspired producer Michael Cencig (Metafilm) to produce his first work of fiction for the cinema and prompted filmmaker Adrian Goiginger to base his eagerly-awaited second feature film on the haunting character of this loner.

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    «It’s a concoction like no other.»

    Hubert Sauper
    Hubert Sauper‘s films are voyages of discovery in the global present. While he exposed the networks rooted in colonialism from an African perspective in Darwin’s Nightmare and We Come as Friends, he has adopted a new focus in EPICENTRO. His new film is a multi-faceted essayist encounter with the Caribbean island of Cuba. In it the filmmaker explores the historical background to the many connotations surrounding power and longing here, a story which proceeds in a spiral of liberation and conquest. A dynamic which is driven in no small part by the powerful medium of cinema itself.
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    «Auf Kino verlassen wir uns bis zum Sommer 2021 jetzt mal nicht.»

    CPH:DOX war nicht nur eines der ersten Festivals, das im März 2020 spontan auf den Lockdown reagieren musste, es war auch der Pionier unter den Online-Festivals. „Back to normal“ galt damals noch als eine Frage von wenigen Monaten. Daran hat sich ebenso viel geändert wie an Online-Märkten und -Festivals, die ihr Angebot von Event zu Event verbessern und verfeinern. Mit IDFA Amsterdam schließt eine der wichtigsten Dok-Plattformen einen Jahreszyklus der Ungewissheiten, Absagen und Verschiebungen. Salma Abdalla von autlook Filmsales war wie auf allen anderen großen Dokumentarfilm-Märkten digital dabei und zieht mit uns Bilanz über ein Jahr Business im virtuellen Raum.
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    «Die Komplexität unserer Gesellschaft hoffnungsvoll widerspiegeln»

    Inspiriert von einer außergewöhnlichen Lehrerpersönlichkeit in einem Wiener Jugendgefängnis, hat Arman T. Riahi das Buch für seinen neuen Spielfilm FUCHS IM BAU geschrieben, der das Bewusstsein über Haft-und Arbeitsbedingungen im österreichischen Jugendstrafvollzug schärfen wird. Die Dreharbeiten sind im September 2019 abgeschlossen. Ein Gespräch mit den ProduzentInnen der Golden Girls Filmproduktion Arash T. Riahi und Karin C. Berger.
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    «Wir sind Festivals, die physisch stattfinden müssen.»

    Obwohl zu Beginn des Lockdowns noch sieben Monate Spielraum waren, entschied die Viennale schnell, ihre 58. Festivalausgabe anders zu konzipieren und setzte auf weniger Tage, mehr Kinosäle, vor allem aber auf das Kinoerlebnis auf der großen Leinwand. Ein Gespräch mit Viennale-Direktorin EVA SANGIORGI über das Planen und den Start in ein Festival, das trotz aller Ungewissheiten an seiner Rolle als anspruchsvolles Publikumsfest festhält.
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    «Isolation is not a good solution.»

    Arman T. Riahi
    Inspired by an extraordinary teacher in a Vienna prison, in FOX IN A HOLE Arman T. Riahi tells the story of young people who have come into conflict with the law, a system that locks them up in order to rehabilitate them, and people who want to keep the teenager’s future open for them.
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    «Ambiguity is the most important language in a village.»

    Evi Romen
    Mario and Lenz have known each other since they were small. Now they are both 20 and determined to escape the confines of this mountain village. Lenz, son of the local vintner, has clearly been dealt a better hand in this respect than the self-destructive dreamer Mario. However, a tragic turn of events shatters the status quo. Evi Romen’s feature film debut WHY NOT YOU features a village in the 21st-century where the old order is collapsing and yet still dominant, depicting the rollercoaster ride of a young man who is completely disoriented and yet senses there must be a place for him too, somewhere.
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    «Don’t argue, listen!»

    Susanne Brandstätter
    Susanne Brandstätter was among the many people for whom 9 November 2016 brought a rude awakening. She too had been planning to watch Hillary Clinton's acceptance address early that morning, only to discover that the country of her birth had chosen Donald Trump as the 58th President of the USA. On the day of his inauguration two months later the filmmaker was already in the swing state of Ohio, to capture the euphoria among Trump voters and ask them about their motives. THIS LAND IS MY LAND is a film that listens.
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    «Es wird viel zu viel und viel zu wenig geben.»

    So plötzlich wie im März in den Kinos die Leinwände eingefahren wurden, so unerwartet schnell gingen sie im Juni wieder auf. Manche Filme holten ihren für Frühling geplanten Start nach, einige nahmen einen zweiten Anlauf, andere warten immer noch auf grünes Licht und verlieren dabei etwas an ihrer Festivalfrische. Im Kino selbst ist wenig wie zuvor –  für die Betreiber ebenso wie für die Zuschauer*innen. Ein Gespräch mit dem Verleiher und Kinobetreiber Michael Stejskal über die Rückkehr des Publikums, Programmieren und Verschieben, Festivalfeeling in Venedig und die Aussichten auf Post-Corona.
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    «If you're in silence, you don't exist in a way.»

    Pavel Cuzuioc in a video conversation on PLEASE HOLD THE LINE.
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    «My way was simply different.»

    From law reporter to film journalist to assistant director to screenwriter to Ulrich Seidl’s artistic associate to feature film director and, together with Severin Fiala, to half a genre film writing duo popular on both sides of the Atlantic. Veronika Franz describes the course of her career as a process of constantly daring herself to do more, and since her breakthrough with Goodnight Mommy she appears to have overcome at least two hurdles with every step she takes. Preparations are underway to shoot the next Austrian Franz/Fiala project, The Devil‘s Bath, and the American remake of her debut will start filming soon. The 77th Venice Film Festival has invited Veronika Franz to serve on the jury, which is headed by Cate Blanchett, to decide who wins the coveted 2020 Golden Lion.
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    «Tour guides through society»

    Pavel Cuzuioc
    Pavel Cuzuioc travelled through Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova and the Ukraine, accompanying telecommunications technicians on fieldwork as they went about their task of connecting people with one another and with the world by means of cables and sockets. The working journeys from door to door become voyages of discovery from microcosm to microcosm, and PLEASE HOLD THE LINE emerges as a witty and enigmatic essay about the human yearning for connection, failure of communication and existence in a wait loop.
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    «Wir können nur versuchen, so lange es geht, unser Fähnchen hochzuhalten.»

    Vom Set bis zum Kinosaal wurde Mitte März die ganze Filmkette mit einem Schlag zum Stillstand gebracht, was rechtliche Unsicherheit und vor allem Versicherungs- und Einkommensausfälle nach sich zog. Umso mehr ist dabei in Bewegung geraten – zunächst seitens der Betroffenen, letztendlich auch in der Politik.  Ein Gespräch mit Roland Teichmann, dem Direktor des Österreichischen Filminstituts über Wege aus dem Ausnahmezustand und die Aussichten auf neue Normalitäten.
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    «I do understand that for my mother's family communism was a form of religion.»

    Weina Zhao and Judith Benedikt in a video conversation on WEIYENA – THE LONG WAY HOME.
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    «They have to unite their souls with the instrument.»

    Iva Švarcová, Malte Ludin
    «The mysterious magic of the harmony it creates prompted filmmakers Iva Švarcová and Malte Ludin to explore the inner life of an orchestra. In WIRED FOR MUSIC – INSIDE THE WIENER SYMPHONIKER  we encounter the famous members of a great orchestra – though concentrating more on those who are generally out of sight – as they go about their extraordinary everyday lives, accompanied by the highest standards and ambition but also by loneliness and anxiety.»
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    «You are perceived as somebody that isn't you.»

    Weina Zhao, Judith Benedikt
    For filmmaker Weina Zhao living between different worlds appears to be a firm family tradition. She herself grew up in Vienna, with – or between – two languages and cultures, between two countries, both of which dictated her identity. In WEIYENA – THE LONG MARCH HOME she embarks upon a journey to China together with co-director Judith Benedikt in order to capture and preserve the undisclosed memories of her family and the vanishing history of her country.
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    «Wir brauchen Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe.»

    Am 11. März startete die Film AG die Dreharbeiten zum Landkrimi VIER in der Regie von Marie Kreutzer. Sie dauerten ganze zwei Tage.Der Zeitpunkt der Wiederaufnahme steht nun ebenso in den Sternen wie der ursprünglich für Juni geplante Drehstart der Vier-Länder-Koproduktion ALMA UND OSKAR, sind doch Sicherheitsvorschriften mit der Lebendigkeit eines Filmsets ebenso inkompatibel wie die Garantieverpflichtungen für Produktionsfirmen mit dem allgegenwärtigen Infektionsrisiko im Team. Ein Gespräch mit Alex Glehr und Johanna Scherz über das Hereinbrechen einer neuen Realität, die die ganze Branche und ihre Arbeitsverhältnisse erschüttert.
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    «From the little man to the billionaire»

    100 years ago Davos, with its high-quality Alpine microclimate, was an exclusive destination for people suffering from respiratory problems. But for the last 50 years the little ski resort in Switzerland has hosted the annual World Economic Forum. These three days in January are enough to make Davos today a synonym around the world for the most concentrated gathering of power and money. DAVOS is a portrait of the inhabitants and their home town, which may be indelibly marked by globalization yet emerges as very different from what one might expect. An interview with Daniel Hoesl and co-director Julia Niemann.

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    «We needed to make it happen.»

    In Denmark the restrictions imposed to combat the coronavirus went into effect on March 12. This meant the end for the 17th CPH:DOX Festival in its usual form. However, just six days later the Copenhagen International Documentary Festival kicked off in a digital space including all the competitive sections and the professional platforms such as CPH:Forum or CPH:Lab. We talked to festival director Tine Fischer about team spirit, a decision without any alternatives and virtual solutions in times of a real crisis.

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    «Biological systems and man-made biotopes»

    Motivated by their very differing personal relationships to the topos of forests, three women from three countries – the filmmakers and producers Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan, Ebba Sinzinger and Michaela Kirst – came together to join undercover activists on an investigative adventure lasting many years. WOOD, filmed openly in some parts and with a hidden camera in others, shows in snapshots the brutal business of illegal logging, clearly indicating the worldwide dimension of this issue.

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    «The return of pre-consciousness»

    Sandra Wollner

    A beautiful house. Countryside all around. A father lives alone here with his 10-year-old daughter. That's what it looks like at first sight. The girl, who swims, speaks and laughs, is an android machine programmed to keep alive the presence of a girl who was lost – while also satisfying the desires of its owner and relieving his loneliness. At some point she vanishes but continues to function in her own way. Sandra Wollner’s THE TROUBLE WITH BEING BORN does not move along narrative lines but penetrates uncomfortable mental spaces, raising difficult questions in the zones of encounter between artificial intelligence and human perception.

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    «The question of truth»

    Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel

    If Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel don't travel for their film project, they plunge beneath the surface of their city. A fascination with the underlying melancholic aspects of Vienna songs leads them to one of its most outstanding interpreters. Kurt Girk’s intriguing account of his life is interwoven in NOTES FROM THE UNDERWORLD with the city's gangster milieu of the late 1960s in the shape of its legendary protagonist Alois Schmutzer; the two men are bound by a lifelong friendship as well as a serious, harrowing travesty of justice.

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    «Stasis takes place on a daily basis.»

    Lisa Weber

    Claudia was just 11 when the interest of filmmaker Lisa Weber was drawn to this cool teenager. She became pregnant at 14, and when she was 18 the young mother wanted to join the Austrian Army. This was also the moment when Lisa Weber began to follow her around with a camera. What started out as the story of a modern, everyday heroine developed into a long-term study of day-by-day stagnation. In RUNNING ON EMPTY Lisa Weber has ventured into a narrative nadir and captured with unfailing patience the petering out of existential driving force.

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    «Das Verlieren der Unschuld.»

    Arash T. Riahi
    Oskar träumt sich seine eigene Welt herbei. Er muss es tun, denn seine Wirklichkeit ist untragbar: sein Vater ist abgeschoben und verschollen, seine Schwester Lilli wurde von ihm getrennt, seine Mutter ist wegen eines Suizidversuchs im Spital. In EIN BISSCHEN BLEIBEN WIR NOCH findet Arash T. Riahi einen Erzählton zwischen kindlicher Verspieltheit und der Härte eines Flüchtlingsschicksals, das nur noch eine Flucht nach Innen offen lässt.
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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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    «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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.

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