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Laleh, a journalist from Paris, finds herself caught in the crossfire in Iraq when ISIS suddenly invades the country. As she flees, she encounters other refugees, Iraqi families and children, as well as former U.S. soldiers and Kurdish freedom fighters.
The recording of his birthday concert in December in the Vienna Stadthalle with special guest Pia Douwes offers a foray through his musical career - from his beginnings to his current successes. The big hits from musicals such as Elisabeth, Starlight Express, The Rocky Horror Show, The Phantom of the Opera, Fame, Chicago, Cats as well as new numbers that Uwe Kröger has never performed before. Accompanied by the Herwig Gratzer Band, 12 dancers and special guest Pia Douwes, who leads the show with Uwe Kröger and even performs a few solo pieces.
14-year-old MAX goes with his father WOLFGANG (45) and his friends on a camping trip in the woods. The two haven´t seen each other since the separation of the parents a few months ago and experience a weekend of rapprochement with beer, men´s talk and masculinity rites. Soon, however, the actual idyll of the trip becomes more and more frightening and the renewed bond between Max and Wolfgang is put to the test.
Documentary about the children of people who were incarcerated by the Nazis. Collects interviews and tells the stories of different people persecuted for various reasons.
On call 24/7 to respond to alarms wherever there’s more than a proverbial fire. Judith Zdesar accompanies volunteer firefighters in their everyday routines. With a focus on emotional challenges rather than on the spectacle, the portrait of the institution develops into a study of how people deal with crisis situations: it is impossible to predict when, where, and how the next catastrophe will occur. That it will happen, is certain.
The Disobbedienti emerged from the Tute Bianche during the demonstrations against the G8 summit in Genoa in July 2001. The “Tute Bianche” were the white-clad Italian activists who used their bodies – protected by foam rubber, tires, helmets, gas masks, and homemade shields – in direct acts and demonstrations as weapons of civil disobedience. The Tute Bianche first appeared in Italy in 1994 in the midst of a social setting in which the “mass laborer,” who had played a central role in the 1970s in production and in labor struggles, was gradually replaced in the transition to precarious post-Fordist means of production. “Disobbedienti” thematizes the Disobbedienti’s origins, political bases, and forms of direct action on the basis of conversations with seven members of the movement.
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.
Jennifer is dead. Her friends want answers. But in a town where Halloween hides more than costumes, the truth might be the last thing they survive finding out.
"The middle line marking of the road is filmed through the windscreen of a moving car simultaneously with its own reflection in the driving mirror. The repeated interruptions of the space/time line are as big as a car. The car as a connecting link in time. The cinema as interruption of normal time flow.” – VALIE EXPORT
Zbigniew Rybczynski's experimental short film of a bottle of wine, a parrot in a cage, and a television with news.
Black comedy set in a ski resort. When a few rules are bent during a late night run with a snow groomer, things start to go terribly awry...
Everyday life is full of nastiness. Anger, frustration, and relationship crises slowly but surely drive one to rage. With "Endstation Tobsucht," Heilbutt & Rosen consistently continue their style of interactive cabaret with fast-paced scenes, music, and finely woven conferences. Mastermind Helmuth Vavra finds the ideal partner in longtime Simpl member Theresia Haiger. Co-author and H&R co-founder Berthold Foeger provides the pointed musical accompaniment.
Hermann Maier regenerates on the ergometer. Alexander Wurz regenerates with jogging. Roland Düringer regenerates on the stage.
“Mozart in Nairobi. Or something like that” is an essay film project by Carla Schwering, Veit Vergara and Julian Wipplinger and stimulates a dialogue between seemingly different worlds, while seeing music as a bridge bypassing their separation. It tells the story of a group of imprisoned women while their children are left behind in the slums or different parts of the city Nairobi/Kenya.
Stranger. Strange country. Strange city. Stranger in this city. Man from Sri Lanka. Distributor of brochures. Homestead in this foreign city?
While white particles shimmer against a black backdrop, we listen to a rising ambient soundtrack, which determines the dynamics of their movement, their transformations, and also of nascent concrete motifs. The inspiration for this organic, yet also coolly detached, abstract film was the full moon reflected on the surface of the water. (Viktor Palák, KVIFF)
God and the Devil make a bet. Paracelsus, doctor and alchemist, scientist and charlatan, seeker after God and narrator of fariy tales, is allowed to come back to earth to prove that he is capable of winning the love of a woman, having wasted his whole life merely writing about her. Thus he becomes embroiled in the eternal trial between reality and speculation, libido and the rule of the intellect, aiming to swap his pen for his virility and allow his heart to rule over his head.
Documentary about a comptetition in Turkey for the best muezzin.
The Munich Oktoberfest, the 'Wiesn', is in the eyes of many strangers a fair of oddities, the symbol of an abstruse way of life in general. This is how the author sees this annual hustle and bustle and weaves an equally bizarre event around it, which focuses on the love of a Munich exterminator for the daughter of a Saxon high school teacher. He equips the story with a monstrous inventory of secondary characters, who provide plenty of linguistic and social misunderstandings.
Her “artificial assistant” is what Claudia Larcher calls the AI that digitally analysed her analogue “Baumeister” series of collages and generated this film from them. Creator or servant spirit, the machine makes architectural sketches waft biomorphically and enlivens (i.e. animates) rigid shapes. The Japanese Metabolists who called for the fluid renewal of their buildings, the organic growth, deformation and decay of architecture, would have liked “The Artist in the Machine”.
Titania, a clumsy adolescent, sits in the tub, on the top of the plug-hole, the entrance to a murky world full of filth, bugs and hazards, which connects her to all the ass-holes in the world. Elements of this world now hover like Ghosts on the surrounding tiles, while Mimi Minus ruminates on the impossibility of love.
A female vampire from the planet Arus tries to vampirize the descendants of Dr. Fun Helsing. With her poisoned olive oil she transforms some teenagers into sex maniac vampires, over whom the crucifix has no power! Only Andrej Tarkowski videos make them shrink back in agony! The vampire hunters soon find themselves "sucked" into a whirlpool of lust and passion...
Manuel, convicted several times for fraud, relapses during his probationary period. His girlfriend Sylvia threatens to leave him if he doesn't finish his rogueries. Dieter has almost completely retired from social life after the accidental death of his wife and lives only for his bar PLANTER'S CLUB. In the back room of the bar, the gambling addict Frank is ripped off by Manuel. After a brawl, the policemen called in arrest the two of them.
The Tigris and Euphrates rivers are in constant transformation in the context of the ongoing war in Kurdistan – both spatial and memorial. Elements submerge and emerge in relation to dam projects while an infant Mesopotamian soft-shelled turtle moves for ten seconds upside-down in a moment of water turbulence. The still images follow a desire to dilate and conceptualize an endangered species' lifespan.
Roland Düringer's fourth solo is a 'play in three acts'. But 'Die Viertelliterklasse' has nothing to do with gasoline and a lot to do with alcohol, nothing to do with silly humor and a lot to do with cabaret. With dark humor, Austria's national pastime, 'drinking,' is taken to task. The boss, the caretaker, the failed actor, and the rude customer – all are ruined by alcohol: Düringer dedicated the program to the 'victims of Austrian pub culture' and was awarded the Austrian Cabaret Prize 'Karl 2001' for it. The jury praised it as 'Viennese folk theater for a new millennium.'
A dog. A crow. Faith. Short film for Austrian Film Museum.
During the preparations for its 100th anniversary, the Chamber of Labor is accompanied and proves to be a unique contact point for the many people fighting for their rights.
Amir and his friends have a righteous anger against the Ayatollah state, and a rather eccentric plan for how they can give it shape: They cobble together a really trashy, scruffy anti-Khomeini video, which should then be secretly distributed around Iran and carry out its subsersive effects. When the Iranian secret service gets wind of this tape, the hunt begins, blood will flow. Battle zone cinema.
A despotic youth spends his vacation oppressing the peaceful inhabitants of an island with his evil fantasies.
Interpersonal relationships in a dysfunctional family under the microscope of the camera.
Feministic interpretations of famous paintings by Vermeer, Michelangelo and others.
A year in the life of members of a troupe of Il Floriciccio circus performers.
'It was in San Francisco at a punk festival. I was already high and the air was so thick in the rooms that you could cut it with a knife. I had a photograph camera with me; I stood in a corner of the entrance hall and took 36 pictures on slide film. At home I put the slides into a slide projector. I took out the lens and filmed the slides by filming directly from the projector - using single frames according to a certain plan.'
In the year 2700, a comic book artist encounters a mysterious alien while seeking revenge against the pyromaniac who burned down her printing presses.
A woman sets out to meet her rapist, 20 years after the crime.
Emily has been married to the abusive and alcoholic Tom for six years and has finally had enough. She teams up with her ex-con ex-boyfriend Jared to kill Tom and bury his body. But what seems like the perfect murder turns into a neverending nightmare as Emily and Jared find themselves trapped in a terrifying time loop in which Tom keeps coming back.
When the narcissistic Adam meets the unpretentious Esra, he imagines he has to win her over. His superficiality quickly becomes a problem. Little by little, the painstakingly constructed facade crumbles.
One last dance leads into a rush of emotions
A short "dance film" that blurs the line (quite literally) between still and moving images: infectious, propulsive rhythms of increasing speed draw us further and further into the terpsichorean limbo zone where inhibitions fly from our pores like sweat.
A multicultural satire about the German guest workers and numerus clausus refugees in Austria, about the mysterious tension between German prepotency and feelings of inferiority and about the clash of cultures - told and performed by a single actor.
In beautiful pictures and few words, the longing of two outsiders for a different, better life is told.
A teenager is drawn into a book's world.
This portrait of a remarkable woman and her unusual environment seems to have a very profound effect on nearly everyone who sees it. The film further strengthens the reputation of veteran documentarian Schreiner, who's quietly and steadily established himself among Europe's most respected practitioners of non-fiction cinema. But the film is by no means an example of an ‘auteur’ imposing his individual vision upon the world. Instead it's a remarkable example of intense collaboration between artist and subject, one so close that such traditional distinctions and labels seem inappropriate.
Musher Toni is torn from his everyday life by a new cancer diagnosis. Together with his huskies, he tries to understand the situation and find a future with his family. An authentic film about the fate of a unique person who must face his fears in order to find his own happiness again.
Maazel conducts this production from Vienna, starring Jose Carreras and Eva Marton.
5 residents meet regularly on the roof of their house to escape the monotony of the lockdown.
A strong bond between a father and daughter, reliving the past and how they were able to live for the moment again.