Advanced search
- TITLES
- NAMES
- COLLABORATIONS
Search filters
Enter full date
to
or just enter yyyy, or yyyy-mm below
to
to
to
Exclude
Only includes titles with the selected topics
to
In minutes
to
1-50 of 53
- The relationship between writers Ingeborg Bachmann and Max Frisch.
- Cioma Schönhaus, a 21-year-old Jewish man, escapes the Gestapo and saves lives thanks to his ability to forge passports. His other talent is forging his own identity.
- A look at the life of philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt, who reported for 'The New Yorker' on the trial of the Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem.
- Berlin, the Romantic Era. Young poet Heinrich wishes to conquer the inevitability of death through love, yet is unable to convince his skeptical cousin Marie to join him in a suicide pact. It is whilst coming to terms with this refusal, ineffably distressed by his cousin's insensitivity to the depth of his feelings, that Heinrich meets Henriette, the wife of a business acquaintance. Heinrich's subsequent offer to the beguiling young woman at first holds scant appeal, that is until Henriette discovers she is suffering from a terminal illness
- When an ex-prisoner of the Great War returns home and finds his comrades brutally murdered, he decides to bring the serial-killer to justice.
- Vienna, early 20th century: the young Egon Schiele is one of the most discussed artists of his time with his original, erotically charged works.
- The musically gifted maid Elsie, who longs for a career as a musician, is forced into marriage with Jacob, a stable boy who dreams of owning a horse. Both have to learn that they can only escape their lack of opportunities if they team up.
- In the spring of 1945 a train deporting hundreds of Jewish prisoners gets stranded near a small German village occupied by the Red Army. Condemned to each other and in a context of deep mistrust, desperation and revenge, an unexpected friendship emerges between Russian sniper Vera, village girl Winnie and Jewish-Dutch woman Simone.
- In Iran today: Maryam (22) accidentally kills her husband Nasser (65) and is sentenced to death. The only person who can save her is Mona, Nasser's daughter. All Mona has to do is appear on a popular live TV show and forgive Maryam.
- In early 18th century an African slave boy is chosen by a European Comtesse to be baptized and educated. Reaching adulthood, Angelo achieves prominence and becomes the Viennese court mascot until he decides to secretly marry a white woman.
- Once upon a time, the Mucklas could be found everywhere. But in an increasingly tidy world, the cheerful goblins have a hard time, since they love disorder more than anything. Soon the last tribe will have to leave their home. For generations, the little creatures have made themselves at home unnoticed in Hansson's old, chaotic grocer's store. In the wonderful mess, they find everything they need to live, tinker and make mischief. But Hansson's successor, Karl the exterminator, turns the paradise into a tiled and sterile nightmare. So Svunja, Tjorben and Smartö set off on a dangerous search for the promised land. The great adventure begins.
- 12-year-old Sue gets some NT26D on herself at her mom's genetic research lab and turns invisible. Sue and two talented friends try to rescue her abducted mom.
- Bits of found film and different types of animation illustrate a classic chase scene scenario: A woman is abducted and a man comes to her rescue, but during their escape they find themselves in the enemy's secret headquarters.
- The enigmatic love story of John Marcher and May Bartram. Their duet around an ominous secret is captured in a style both physical and poetic.
- Meeri Ehrlich, 13 years old has three problems. First: She is in love - with the wrong person - and has butterflies in her tummy. Second: Her mother passed away and she misses her a lot. Third: her father - owner of a funeral home - is looking for a new partner. But Meeri has something that is only hers, something very special - she can fly.
- Marc is talented, intelligent, eloquent and wealthy but has suffered from an incurable illness from childhood. Each weekend he escapes his everyday haute bourgeois life by travelling the world in search of the ultimate "Don Giovanni" performance.
- Female contract killer Tez, who is hired by the legendary gangster Charles Mahr to take revenge for the murder of one of his couriers.
- "Casting a Woman" is a short film about young actresses and casting-procedures, a film about the aura that builds up around the desire to become a star.
- When the ambitious Philip takes over the running of the family business from his father, he finds himself confronted by the mysterious reappearance of his dead ancestors. In the course of a long night, during which there is a murder, an illicit love affair and a game with false identities, Philip uncovers a closely guarded family secret.
- Grappling with a mid-life crisis, Sacha leaves his girlfriend and escapes to his grandparents' Airbnb. He is surprised by the presence of Marjan, an Iranian woman who is facing her own marital crisis. They are both annoyed at having to share the apartment and rather than finding a place of retreat, tension builds. When Mina, a vibrant American, arrives, their mutual prejudices give way to curiosity and complicity. What began as an involuntary encounter becomes a moment of new possibilities.
- This is the story of Mami, a young woman who was born and raised in a small impoverished town down south. She works at the snack bar at the local gas station and is in love with Nissim, her neighbor. One day she is struck by the strong hand of fate: A few days after their wedding, Nissim is wounded in the war and succumbs to a vegetative state.
- Science-docu-fiction, or a documentary popular science film - that's what the creators described it. The action begins on a spaceship controlled by womens - cartographers from a civilization unknown to us. They are designed to study the planets encountered in space. At some point they reach our Solar System and their sight falls on Earth. Researchers are delving into the nine hundred million years of our planet's development history. Through the eyes of cosmic cartographers, MappaMundi takes its viewer on a greatly accelerated voyage through 950 million years of development on Earth, 150.000 years of human migration and 15.000 years of human cartography. The film visualises the continuous changes taking place in our world, change that is imperceptible over a single human lifetime. MappaMundi is a film about the image of the world that we have repeatedly re-drawn for thousands of years. With over hundred world maps from the past 15.000 years, the development of our view of the world from its beginnings to the present day is analysed and illustrated in all its diversity. MappaMundi shows the world we inhabit as the result of a process of continuous, radical change, a process of incessant transformation - that is both unstoppable and fascinating.
- A photographer is haunted by memories from his childhood and goes through the old photos of his plagued dad to find some kind of redemption.
- When a writer investigates Austria through the images presented by postcards, the landscapes around Erzberg and Salzburg become something between a dream and a nightmare.
- No log-line actually available
- Plot under wraps.
- An atmospheric psycho thriller told from the perspective of a young woman who is the apparent victim of a conspiracy, and who later becomes herself a perpetrator.
- Using Khmer Rouge Tribunal as a starting point, Susanne Brandstätter takes a deep look into the lives of young Cambodians on the brink of adulthood. As the trial accusing a perpetrator of the Pol Pot regime progresses, it becomes a catalyst for a new generation of Cambodians questioning their parents, families and neighbors about the inhumanities their nation has suffered. Brandstätter accompanies three families on two different continents - two Cambodian families and an immigrated Cambodian family in Paris, France - recognizing that the truth is only to be found among those who survived and that the past can best be questioned by those who are about to build a future.
- Handmade utopias - a filmic search for the worldwide phenomenon of the micronation movement. Do-it-yourself states that have distanced themselves from the economic and political mainstreaming of globalization. A road movie covering land, water and the wildest realms of the imagination. Simultaneously creative documentary and pulsating cultural portrait, the film traces a new "unplugged" generation - their motives, their anxieties and their dreams. A film that shows how this generation realizes its escapist fantasies in new economic and political forms and how they collide with oppressive everyday realities.
- Every seventh person in the world is a Chinese farmer. Between 2002 and 2005 the filmmakers Elke Groen and Ina Ivanceaneau carried out numerous interviews in three Chinese villages documenting everyday life - without any censorship whatsoever. At the same time the inhabitants of the villages shot their own short films about their surroundings, their hopes and their dreams - short films that have become part of "Every Seventh Person". The result is an exceptional documentary film that provides insight into life in China away from the urban and industrial centres - a life between socialism and market economy in which the villages become the testing grounds for democracy and self-determination.
- Matthias Müller's short is based on the poems to childhood by famed Austrian lyrical aertist Ernst Jandl who tried to write these poems in a language used by children, including nursery rhymes and prayers. Müller uses found footage and amateur films from his own childhood to create a visual equivalent to these poems. (M.M).
- A few days before Christmas, Pol's unknown half-brother Jérôme turns up after having served in prison. LONG LOST tells the story of the encounter of the two distinct personalities.
- Gummitwist celebrates the joys of love, sex and passion by showing cute, sweet and tasty gummi bears who can't get enough of it. Playing with the colloquial and literal connotation of "gummi" (rubber), the film attempts to positively connotate condom rubber material and safe sex for young people.
- In one of those suburbs where everything is made to look safe, the silhouette of a woman wanders around clicking her heels. A young man is about to experience a strange night, half way between fantasy and reality. Two sexual intercourses, firstly with oneself and then with someone else, another one... possibly an alter ego, his alter ego conjured up to put an end to loneliness... Caught between his own double and an evanescent woman, he is confronted with two opposite ways out of his isolation. This duality will push him in a deceptive triangular love affair, which becomes impossible with this unbalanced equation as the third person is relentlessly missing.
- Free Spaces is based on the SPACES project. It shows a new image of four major Eastern European cities. The documentary film follows artists and activists who try to regain their right to the city with intelligence, wittiness and creativity. A cinema gets occupied, an old Soviet circus reactivated, a gloomy underground passage transformed into an ironic but glamorous arena and a factory site converted into a cultural agora. The film shows that conditions are similar in Tbilisi, Georgia; Yerevan, Armenia; Chisinau, Moldova; and in Kyiv, Ukraine, where civil society revolted recently. All actions and projects demand freedom of expression and reclaim public space in artistic and innovative ways.
- The Mediterranean region shares a mutual object of cultural value: the Islamic bath house hammam - a central place for social life, health care and hygiene, for relaxation as well as religious and artistic activities, and one of the rare public meeting places for women. Today, hammams are disappearing in many Mediterranean countries. With their disappearance, Islamic cities are about to lose a major feature of their heritage. The aim of the Hammamed project is to raise awareness for the hamman's importance. The filmmakers support the project with short films shot in Cairo, Damascus, Fez and Ankara.
- 'Schein Sein' is based on Morton Feldman's music piece 'Madame Press Died Last Week at Ninety', performed by the Vienna based Klangforum under it's conductor Beat Furrer. The film plays with the levels of optic and aural perception, with the deception of eyes and ears and the tension between two-dimensional reproduction and three-dimensional spatial recreation.
- AND THEN YOU is a playfully dreamy love story in a world in which the interior is turned outward. Feelings and characteristics find a visual form: flowers come to life, love sets fire and falling blossoms of a tree embody a sea of losses.
- This film transforms a piece of music into a visual and examines the role of humans in this performance of sound and light. After a prologue in which composer and conductor Beat Furrer is shown obtaining and arranging a score by Schumann, its performance is the film's actual theme: As the notes pass through the picture, the musicians of the Klangforum Wien ensemble appear and disappear according to their acoustic contribution. The result is a choreography of sound, the music's transience and vastness is turned into a ballet of bodies which, somewhere between presence and absence, commemorates the instability of being as a dialectic micro-spectacle.