Rosa Friedrich's MY FRIEND THE PORN STAR will celebrate its world premiere in the Proxima Competition. The programme also features the latest highlights from Cannes: GENTLE MONSTER, EVERYTIME, and THE DREAMED ADVENTURE, alongside Silver Bear winner ROSE and Venice entry THE SOUFFLEUR in the Horizons programme.
More Austrian filmmaking can be discovered at the Central Stage Industry Days and across the festival’s short film programmes.
PROXIMA COMPETITION
MY FRIEND THE PORN STAR by Rosa Friedrich (95 min) World Premiere
produced by Kacerovsky
World Sales: New Docs
HORIZONS
EVERYTIME by Sandra Wollner (124 min)
produced by Panama Films with DE
World Sales: Charades Films
GENTLE MONSTER by Marie Kreutzer (116 min)
produced by Film AG with DE, FR
World Sales: mk2 Films
ROSE by Markus Schleinzer (95 min)
produced by Schubert with DE
World Sales: The Match Factory
THE SOUFFLEUR by Gastón Solnicki (78 min)
produced by Little Magnet Films with AR
World Sales: Magnify
THE DREAMED ADVENTURE by Valeska Grisebach (164 min) | minority co-production
co-produced by Panama Film with DE, FR, BG
World Sales: The Match Factory
IMAGINA
ROJO ŽALIA BLAU by Viktoria Schmid (2025, 11 min)
PRAGUESHORTS AT KVIFF
RULETISTA by Lukas Valenta Rinner (2024, 21 min)
CENTRAL STAGE INDUSTRY DAYS
HANSI by Sebastian Brauneis
produced by Orbrock Filmproduktion
THE FLYING MOUNTAIN by Nicolas Steiner
co-produced by Amour Fou Vienna
CINEMATIC FOCUS
Michael Frenschkowski of the Vienna-based International Screen Institute will give a talk on Reinventing Yourself as Everything Changes.
