Discoveries from Austria World Cinema

It is about a girl's everyday life at the end of her school days, trying to find a way into society and her own life.

Somalia. A policewoman sits in her parked car. After a while, she gets out, puts on her service cap, and enters the prison. There, decisive hours have dawned for young Farah. Organizational machinery starts up around him. Farah is examined by a doctor, instructed by the bailiff, and looked after by an imam. Farah is waiting for his parents to visit. “How are you?” is the question everyone asks him that day. Each time, “Good” is his concise answer. Only when the policewoman takes Farah out of town the next morning does the unspeakable become a painful reality.

Docudrama examining the life of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who founded the Republic of Turkey from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire. Monuments to him can be found in every city; the anniversary of his death is commemorated every year; derogatory words about him are punishable by law. Rarely has a politician changed a society so radically in such a short time as Atatürk did Turkey.

A look at the world of in vitro fertilization and the rapidly-advancing science of childbearing.

A fleeting acquaintance can be exciting, adventurous, funny, but also opaque or even threatening. Shot in a single shot, "Between The Lines" explores the nuances of such a situation. Between the tracks of an underground station, the outlines of two people and their stories slowly emerge.

Like a Santiago Álvarez squared (or multiplied by 4K, to be more precise), Siegfried A. Fruhauf –a descendant of Austria’s Great Generation of Tscherkassky, Deutsch and Arnold– rede- fines with Vintage Print the power of film as imagination, at the service of an amazing economy of resources. If the pioneer of Cuban montage cinema became immortal when he left us his phrase “give me two photographs, a moviola, and some music, and I’ll make you a film,” Fruhauf slims down that recipe by cre- ating thirteen hyperkinetic minutes out of a single, century-old glass negative in decomposition. Ranging from figurative to ab- stract art, analogy to digital, and documentary to experimental, Vintage Print’s definitive achievement is that it reverses a road movie in its own terms, and the first thing that is left behind is the very same notion of cinema.

The film is a reflection on the medieval folk tradition of "benandanti" ("good walkers"), who believed they had special powers to fight witches, ogres and demons threatening harvests and children. Who are the "benandanti" of today and who are the witches and ogres of our times? Can these assigned roles be put into question? The film analyses three stories, trying to recover the sense of truth and the truth of the sense, starting from the relations between individuals and the respect that every statement of the human race deserves.

Repurposing found archival material, this work analyses the discursive eclecticism and political eschatology of contemporary Russia, which has been used as the new ideological justification for the military invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 in a so-called "denazification" operation—a mirror projection of the country's internal process of leaning towards fascism.

Adina Camhy investigates the phenomenon of a crater as a metaphor, as well as a concrete physical shape, resulting in a meditation on ‘dynamic memorials’ around the Ramon Crater in the Negev desert and its counterpart with the same name on the Moon.

After the death of his partner, Adrian experiences a serious existential crisis. He decides to walk to Santiago de Compostela to come to terms with himself and his life. Against Adrian's will, his brother Ludwig joins him on the pilgrimage. And Ernst, who initially has no intention of going, is forced to leave Vienna for a while due to a scandal he caused. At first, it is not a particularly pious pilgrimage, but in the end, they stand on the beach of the Atlantic Ocean in Finisterre, where the world seemed to end for pilgrims of earlier times, enriched by many insights and (self-)discoveries.

Taking care of yourself and learning how to let yourself feel all the pleasure that exists in your body.

"The fate of a beautiful woman" tells a story of Erika Dankwarth that reflects herself in a multitude of men.

29-year-old Kathy works as an editorial assistant at a publishing house in Frankfurt am Main. She left her parents' winery in Styria after an argument with her father. But she doesn't feel at home in the big city. On the occasion of her father's birthday, she wants to talk things out with him. She takes a well-known author, who wants to find peace and quiet to write again, with her on the trip home. The two fall in love.

The film depicts the composer Franz Liszt and takes its name from his 1850 piano work of the same title.

A dying crusader is visited by an angel and a devil. The devil invites the knight to a game of chess to decide the believer's fate...

Maria, an astounding singer in a music school , is discovered by an impresario who engages her for a concert in Nizza. A nobleman wishing to leave his gambling debts behind accepts money to fake suicide for unrequited love, for publicity's sake. He heads for Paris, not knowing that she is also going to sing there.

Documentary by Wilhelm Roth about the state of affairs of the Young German Cinema.

Follow me around is a movie about snowboarding and the ongoing mission of MDP to document the absolute best snowboarding on the planet. We follow fourteen of the most progressive knuckle draggers around as they take 67 waist deep pow runs in Alaska, hit 50+ foot cliffs as if they were park jumps and take jibbing to a whole new level.

Casimir lives in Warsaw with his wealthy wife Catherine, but something is missing in his life until Caroline shows up. They flee to Vienna, where great obstacles await them.

When Jenni gets kidnapped she and her estranged partner Joe must accept that the conspiracy around the perfume firm is bigger and even more dangerous than they believed.

Author and cook David Groß travels through five European countries and cooks exclusively what others throw in the garbage bin. With great thirst for knowledge, he tracks food waste and presents unexpected solutions. In an unusual and humorous self-attempt David Groß questions our daily consumer lifestyle.

Since her thrilling, 1995 debut at the San Francisco Opera, soprano Anna Netrebko has starred with opera companies and orchestras worldwide. This video gathers some of her best moments in excerpts from Giacomo Puccini's "La Boheme"; Charles Francois Gounod's "Faust"; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Don Giovanni"; Vincenzo Bellini's "La Sonnambula"; and Antonin Dvorak's "Rusalka." Also included are interviews with Netrebko and her colleagues.

‘Some memories – are stronger – than others.’ With this motto, Lotte Schreiber begins her experimental documentary short film Some Memories, in which she takes a look behind the scenes of the Historijski Muzej Bosne i Hercegovine, the Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, located in Sarajevo.

Lisa has grown up in an orphanage. She is looking forward to her adoption, as she doesn't know that her new parents are about to divorce. The Saber-toothed cat which she meets in a museum intervenes as a "feles ex machina".

A man goes into the woods to camp. Turns out he is not alone...

Documentary about the life and works of legendary Austrian actor Karl Merkatz.

Kren filmed, in microscopic detail the reflection and refraction of the light in/on a glass bottle. However, the bottle itself (the whole body) is never seen. What is seen is much more the emanations of light from the glass and its clarity. (Michael Palm)

The film explores the journeys and philosophies of a select group of experimental musicians including Keith Rowe, Evan Parker, Eddie Prevost, Otomo Yoshihide, Toshimaru Nakamura and Christian Fennesz.

A movie with three episodes directed by Ernst Hofbauer, Walter Kolm-Veltée and Karl Leiter.

When single mother Kathi learns that her father is becoming increasingly neglected and in need of care, she returns to her old home after a long time.

About a lurid tale of magic and secret societies during the reign of Luis XVI, focused on the figure of the Italian occultist Giuseppe Balsamo, known under his alias of Count Alessandro di Cagliostro.

An attempt to transform a Roman Western into a Greek tragedy. The hero of Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine is easy to identify. Walking down the street unknowingly, he suddenly realizes that he is not only subject to the gruesome moods of several spectators but also at the mercy of the filmmaker.

Elizabeth T. Spira accompanies train passengers from Vienna – Bratislava for one of her famous Alltagsgeschichten

A man wakes up restrained with his arm cut off

In a remote region on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, a lush landscape characterized by volcanoes meets tropical dry forest. Right there is a very special beach where two completely different species meet: Sea turtles meet jaguars. This has spectacular consequences for both sides and their environment. The two animals form an alliance that is as surprising as it is unintentional. The predator suddenly becomes a protector.

Irene, the mayor of a Styrian community, also helps her mother and stepfather in their small department store and takes touching care of her 17-year-old brother. But when Paul Berger, an innovative cook, wants to take over the old village inn, wounds of the past break open and a dark secret slowly comes to light...

The young musicologist Mr. Fitzthum visits Mr. Szabo in his flat in order to get back an important sheet of music. He finds a man sitting in a countless number of documents and papers dealing with his collapsed idea of life.

What’s it like to live with vision loss, knowing that someday soon you’ll never be able to see the faces of those you love again? This film is a survey of the lives of people living with visual impairments who have either already gone completely blind or are slowly losing sight of the world around them, but still do not give up in their pursuit of happiness and a life of positivity.

A familiar Biblical tale transformed into a cinematic opera of seemingly endless possibility. In expressive, melodic tones, the fraternal pair debate God’s true message and intent for His creations, a conflict that leads their followers towards chaos and sin. Set almost entirely within a Roman amphitheater whose history lends every precise line-reading and gesture, every startling camera move and cut, a totalizing force.