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It was 400 years ago that Galileo Galilei opened the window to the skies with a telescope. In 1609 Johannes Kepler published his "Astronomia Nova" and in the proces s provided us with a new understanding of our solar system. To commemorate these scientific milestones, the UN declared 2009 the "International Year of Astronomy."
"Imagine sleeping at home" follows the story of several children who guide us to understand the conflict and the problems that they face, but also pay attention of small groups of friends who spontaneously comes to camera to tell what are their concerns. In the documentary we can also find the testimony of the director of a school for disabled children, the story of how a mother had to escape from the occupied territories when the Moroccan police detained for a week her ten years old son, or the analysis of a Sahrawi soldier about the situation of their children.
Almost as if entering the picture frame by chance, mute characters lean out of Viennese apartment windows, simply to have a look.
Immediately after completing her studies in journalism, the young Penelope Jones becomes a reporter for a local city television station. Her first assignment is to shoot a report on the first Perchtenlauf in 10 years. During her research, Penelope comes across a crime that has long been well-covered up, in which very respected personalities of the city are deeply entangled. Despite all the intimidation and threats, Penelope continues her research. Her sharpest weapons on the winding path of the truth search are plenty of grips, a strong dose of ambition, their unwavering strength of character and a ravishing smile.
In 2009 started the hardest and longest footrace in the world: an average run of 43 miles/day, 64 total stages, no days off, for a total of 2,800 miles from southern Italy up to the North Cape in Norway. Nights were spent in gyms, kindergartens or swimming baths on own mats, there where no accompanying service teams, no closed streets during the racing day... The performance expectations were turned upside down. It's not just about physical fitness but also about who can master this huge challenge in their head. Women become dreaded opponents of men. Ideal age is 40 - that's when mind and body are equally strong.
Another boring evening at the Baron's home; he sits and reads a magazine, while his wife sits across the reading table, reading a newspaper. The housemaid enters, bringing a message from Franz, who convenes the Baron to an urgent meeting at the Club. Excusing himself, and thoroughly kissing his wife good-evening, the Baron leaves - to meet some lady of the night in the club's private room, with champagne and a sofa for two. At home, the Baroness gets bored, until she has an idea, soon put to practice. She sends a man a letter, signed Divine Lola, giving him rendez-vous at a discreet pension. The modern Eve is not taking her husband's infidelities sitting down. She lays in her undershirt on a bed inviting her lover in, in a long embrace.
Five children from around the world charged by the earth to share their stories of climate solutions and sustainable designs from their home regions. They decide to scale back existing technologies and create sustainable designs, but the Earth's systems have already reached critical levels.
Hubert von Goisern: Goisern Goes East
A mysterious woman boards a passenger plane, locks herself into the toilet, and starts cutting wires running in the ceiling overhead. What is her intention?
A concert in Vienna By The Hans Theessink Band
Portrait of the artist’s mother as an old woman. A farewell vignette, a final sketch from her nursing home, silent, aloof, clumsy, metallic gray, candidly-bluntly-awkwardly direct. And proud of what she has accomplished & what has remained incomplete, the lack of architecture & aesthetics & perfection & polish. Like all of Friedl vom Gröller’s films, "Bliss" is as brief and to the point as a shock or a slap to a government minister’s cheek. And as beautiful as a woman of a certain age who refuses to put on makeup, while rough gravel rattles in the stomach of a she-wolf.
"I filmed Flo and Ken Jacobs in 2001 when they visited me in my studio (the School of Artistic Photography, Vienna). Our acquaintance, friendship began in 1974. Flo and Ken had witnessed the wild, avant-garde years of independent film in New York. They are practiced New Yorkers. Maybe that's why I thought I could be actionistic and surprising to them while filming: I took the contents of Ken's breast pocket. Ken got angry, as you can see. I hereby apologize in retrospect". (Friedl vom Gröller 2021)
J. S. Bach motets, sinfonias and cantate performed by the Tölzer Knabenchor and the Concentus Musicus Wien and conducted by Stefan Gottfried in Melk Parish Church, Lower Austria on 5 June 2017.
Friedl is an act of collecting, the camera is moving along swiftly, keeping a close eye on the objects it records: a vase, kitchen tools, plastic bags. What do you recognize when you see objects of everyday life? The film reflects on time, on passing and elapsing.
Looking at the Nazi horrors through the eyes of an artist who draws portaits of children killed in concentration camps to keep their memory allive.
It is not inconceivable that a film about Sicily will have il mare (the sea) in its title, but why should it have la torta (the cake)? Yet this slightly cryptic title leads us straight into the world of Honetschläger. A world that is playful and cheerfully erudite and that places the so-called important and unimportant side-by-side without concern.
The window as a real and symbolic gateway to the world: The Window is an autobiographical film about memories and experiences shaped by the feeling of isolation during the pandemic. Past and present, black-and-white, and color, reality and dream flow into one another.
If the current historical moment had a voice, would it be an artificial intelligence voice? Jennifer Mattes undertakes a survey of human consciousness, bringing impressions of life and death together with images of pure technology and non-living matter.
Ten-year-old Béni collects sounds. Many would dismiss it as mere noise, without really listening closely: the roar of waves, hum of a high voltage power line, her own heartbeat. A poetic film essay about seeking and finding of what is overheard—in cinema and in everyday life.
Philosophical brainwalks in the summer forest: surrounded by lush greenery and birdsong, a son asks his parents, who are both around 80 years old, existential questions about the universe, humanity, and male inadequacy—separately.
Between pictures of his grandfather as a youth and childhood photos of his mother, the filmmaker discovers images of a Nazi rally in Innsbruck. The immediacy of the images leaves him speechless. In a video call, he talks with his mother about how to deal with such a find.
Using a range of cinematic forms, such as animation, split screen, and fisheye lens, Wolfgang Liemberger and Georg Vogt create an associative portrait of avant-garde filmmaker Ferry Radax who died in 2021. Filmed mainly on the beach at Monterosso, the setting of Radax’s major work Sonne halt!
Beginning with the birth of her daughter Lotti, Sophie Bösker documents everyday life for three years and examines it in terms of the realization of a fifty-fifty model. Along for the ride are her partner Georg (“Superdaddy”) and a camera that serves as the director’s outlet: for confessions, complaints, outbursts of rage, and a battle rap.
At the Salzburg Festival, Japanese pianist Kyohei Sorita will conduct the Mozarteum Orchestra from the piano in a concert entirely dedicated to the city’s musical prodigy. The program includes, among other works, Piano Concertos Nos. 9 and 27.
August 1969, Leila Khaled and Salim Al-Issawi, two members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) hijack flight TWA840 on its way from Rome to Tel-Aviv, diverting it to Damascus Airport. Leila–the first female hijacker–describes details of the operation and the PFLP’s intentions behind blowing up the empty plane in Damascus in her autobiography, stating that a photographer hired by the PFLP was waiting at the airport to document the explosion for archival purposes. Nevertheless, he forgets to take off the cap of his camera lens, and the archive is left with a black photograph. The artist takes the black photograph as a point of departure for this work, investigating what images can tell us and how we read them in relation to historiography and the processes of archival ‘truth-making’.
“Rock, water, fire, air…” – the rhythmic singing of a children’s song echoes on. This film intertwines play and the memory of the forced baptism of three African girls in 1855 Bruneck, Tyrol, into acts of resistance.
A funny yet sharp look at the pervasive effects of financial capitalism. The film focuses on the global tax haven of Liechtenstein, exploring the relationship its residents have with money.
Claudio Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine performed by the Wiltener Sängerknaben and Academia Jacobus Stainer, directed by Johannes Stecher, in Sterzing parish church in August 2024.
At the heart of Věc Makropulos is a recipe for a life-prolonging elixir invented by the doctor Hieronymus Makropulos for Emperor Rudolf II. It was tested on the doctor's beautiful daughter, who has now been on earth for 337 years and has had countless affairs over the generations. In the end, however, the seemingly young woman has to realize that an endless life on this side of the world only brings loneliness.
In order to get a state “linen” package for their baby after a home birth, the Stanković’s have to run a Kafkaesque gauntlet through the Austrian institutions.
Documentary on the Wilten Boys' Choir, founded in the mid-13th century in Innsbruck, Austria.
Olena Newkryta is an artist-filmmaker whose work explores the histories of techno-social infrastructures. Her film Patterns Against Workers (2023) premiered at the 34th SGIFF.
While Yannick persistently campaigns for stronger climate policies and Nina refuses to accept the humiliation of living in poverty any longer, Martin sees the most pressing social problem in the one-sidedness of today’s media coverage. The film follows three very different activists and attempts to adopt their perspectives. They are all angry, all committed to change. The film raises the question: does society’s ability to resolve conflict fail when it relies solely on rational discussion?
A portrait of Austria captured with a broken camera, accompanied by an enhanced and AI-generated version of the national anthem.
Chris Mandyl, a rebel, fights to replicate DREAMER and challenge Nevi's oppressive regime.
Atmospheric music and visual elements merge into a sensory journey that blurs the boundaries between sight and sound. A haunting commentary on the climate crisis reflects the transience of human experience and symbolically melts like the glaciers of the Alps.
A crew of space-travelers rescues a ship of refugees from certain death. However they're intercepted by a military space-cruiser and are put in front of an impossible choice.
A filmmaker’s tick of constant sniffing becomes the most important part of their media archive
Lois Weinberger (1947 -2021) was one of the most important Austrian artists in recent years. He placed ruderal spaces at the center of his work. As early as the late 1980s, he began incorporating plants into his artistic practice, making him one of the pioneers of a movement that offered a new, non-romanticized perspective on the relationship between humans and nature. The film captures moments of inspiration and grace, portraying the artist’s work and legacy. Through intriguing collaborations, the film explains Weinberger’s works and specific projects while simultaneously capturing his essence.
Urban Nomads is a documentary about the life of street performers or buskers. It portrays three protagonists who provide deep insight into their particular way of life and making a living, presenting an extreme tension between personal freedom and existential insecurity. We accompany these urban nomads as they travel far and wide across Europe.
An ecstatic and surreal dance extravaganza with bold colors and a retro futuristic touch. The official music video for Foster the People's "Lost in Space."
A Man who's been struggling with addiction undergoes a withdrawal Program only that this might worsen his condition.
Living and working in the decaying confines of a construction site, a young couple struggles to secure a hopeful future for their unborn child, trapped in a cycle of poverty and exploitation as they search for redemption amidst the rubble.
Through a free narrative, the short documentary "Haus am Gehen" portraits artists and their everyday work in the Kunst Quartier Wien Meidling. The artist house, home to the workshops of artists of many disciplines since 2010, has to continually fear for its ongoing existence and will become an appartment complex sooner or later. The film confronts this situation, the sound design works to portray these tensions in an idiosyncratic, dramatic and playful way. The perspectives of the artists meet the current tensions with their very own ideas.