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Published by

Federal Ministry

Republic of Austria

Arts, Culture,

the Civil Service

and Sport

2020 Vienna Austria




Imprint

Federal Ministry

Republic of Austria

Division for

Arts and Culture

Film Department

Barbara Fränzen – Director

Concordiaplatz 2

1014 Vienna Austria

barbara.fraenzen@bmkoes.gv.at

www.bmkoes.gv.at

Editor

Brigitte Mayr

Concept

Carlo Hufnagl – Film Department

Translation

Eve Heller

Renée von Paschen

Editorial Deadline

October 2020

Graphic Design

up designers berlin-wien

Walter Lendl

Print

Schmidbauer GmbH, Oberwart

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Abbreviations

f..............fiction

d............documentary

a-g.......avant-garde

Produced according to the guidelines of

The Austrian Ecolabel “Office, Paper, Printing”

Schmidbauer Druckerei GmbH • UW 897


Contents

INNOVATIVE FILM 8 Innovative Films Made in Austria

AUSTRIA

– Exploring Terra Incognita

by Secretary of State Andrea Mayer

INTRODUCTION 13 Sources of Wonder

by Jurij Meden

FACTS + FIGURES 18 Films Funded 2013–2019

19 Most Frequent Festival Screenings 2017–2020

20 Outstanding Artist Awards 2016–2020

20 Austrian Art Awards 2016–2020

21 Thomas Pluch Screenplay Awards 2016–2020

OUTSTANDING ARTIST 24 Ruth Kaaserer

AWARDS 2019 27 Hannes Böck

AUSTRIAN ART 32 Martina Kudláček

AWARD 2019

FILMS 40 Fiction

44 Documentary

55 Fiction Short

58 Documentary Short

62 Avant-Garde Short

FILMS IN PRODUCTION 71 Fiction in Production

80 Documentary in Production

110 Avant-Garde in Production

115 Fiction Short in Production

124 Documentary Short in Production

132 Avant-Garde Short in Production

SCHOLARSHIPS FOR

YOUNG TALENTS 146 Start-Up Grants for Young Film Artists

PIXEL, BYTES & FILM 152 New Film Formats Funding Initiative

CONTACT ADDRESSES 160 Production Companies

161 Sales

161 Directors

INDEX 166 Films

167 Directors

168 Photo Credits



innovative film

austria

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Innovative Films Made in Austria –

Exploring Terra Incognita

One might think that it takes the effects of a

pandemic to see with all clarity how indispensable

the arts and culture are for our society. The

performing and visual arts – including film as an

artistic medium – are an integral part of our lives.

The projects, events and institutions associated

with these art forms also represent an important

economic factor. Recent months have clearly

shown how rapidly and easily our everyday life –

both work and leisure – can be derailed, and our

customary social fabric thrown off balance when

arts and cultural events cannot be attended and

experienced collectively.

The fact that filmmakers have reacted to the Covid-related restrictions in their

own way is encouraging – and at the same time not surprising. For film and video

artists, it is a daily practice and challenge to enter terra incognita in terms of both

content and form. They take on changed perspectives, sense the unex pected and

integrate things that are irritating and sometimes disturbing into their artistic

work. Their approach and their works of art invite us to rediscover our everyday

lives. Film and video create images that may never have been seen before. They

are capable of rearranging the familiar in order to provide new insights or tell new

stories, provoking a possible change of perspective. The resulting, specific

artistic strategies and approaches to that which is not expected offer the

audience a wide range of opportunities to research, rethink and reassess our

changed living and working conditions. Film and video can provide orientation in

a time of increasing digitization of our society, a process that has only gained

momentum due to the pandemic.

For many years, innovative Austrian films have been very successful worldwide

with their incomparable visual signature. This is a fact that makes me extremely

proud.

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Introduction


With this in mind, this Innovative Film catalog introduces the audience to

a broad selection of new works created in the past year with the support of

the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport.

The 15 th edition of the catalog serves as an ambassador for innovative

film-making across national borders in both analog and digital forms, actively

contributing to its international visibility and dissemination.

I wish you an informative and inspiring read and many extraordinary terra

incognita adventures at the cinema – the undisputed linchpin of film art.

With best wishes

Andrea Mayer

Secretary of State for Arts and Culture/Federal Ministry

for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport

English translation by Eve Heller



introduction

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Introduction


Sources of Wonder

Jurij Meden

From the perspective of an artist, the entire history of art is, to a significant extent,

a history of the organized support of the arts. From the perspective of the

consumer of art, the entire history of art is, to a significant extent, a history of

wonder. This wonder is of a kind only art can provide – it cannot be found, for

example, in religion, food or sex. Innovative Film Austria stands at the threshold

of an ancient cultural tradition: It generously caters both to the adventurous

artist hungering to experiment with audiovisual media, as well as the adventurous

viewer, hungry for wonder of a kind s/he hasn’t experienced before.

After he had relocated from Rome to Milan in 384, Saint Augustine encountered

Bishop Ambrose, a wise man responsible for Augustine’s eventual

embrace of Christianity. In Confessions, Augustine remembers observing a

peculiarly wondrous trait displayed by his beloved and respected mentor:

“I could not ask him questions I wished to ask, in the manner I wished to ask

them, because so many people kept him busy with their problems that I was

prevented from talking to him face to face. When he was not with them, which

was never a very long time, he was reviving his body with the food it required or

refreshing his mind with reading. When he read, his eyes scanned the page and

his heart explored the meaning, but his voice was silent and his tongue was still. All

could approach him freely and it was not unusual for visitors to be announced. So

often, when we came to see him, we found him reading like this in silence – as

he never read aloud. We would sit there quietly, for no one had the heart to disturb

him when he was so engrossed in study. After a time we went away again,

guessing that in the short while he was free from the turmoil of other men’s

affairs and able to refresh his own mind, he would not wish to be distracted.”

Augustine met Ambrose well over 1,000 years before the European invention of

printing technology, in 1450 AC. Despite the fact that children today continue to

learn to read by reading aloud, it is still easy to forget – or, better yet, hard to

imagine – that an act as simple as reading in silence wasn’t always as “natural”

as we perceive it to be today. Back when books were a rare commodity and the

ability to read a rare privilege, most people equated the technology of reading

with vocalizing. Ambrose reading with a “silent voice” and “still tongue” was a

source of profound wonder – even for an intellectual like Augustine who was already

a teacher himself back when he first met Ambrose.


Roughly 1,500 years after Augustine’s encounter, Chris Marker stirringly portrayed

Soviet master filmmaker Aleksandr Medvedkin in The Last Bolshevik and

reported how the young Medvedkin joyously cried upon first discovering how

placing two images together could produce a third meaning.

Medvedkin shed his tears of wonder at approximately the same moment in history

when people all over the world started escaping into the darkness of movie

palaces en masse – millions cried in front of the silver screen and continue to do

so to this day. Perhaps the technology of exhibiting moving images on big public

screens never really drove any Parisians to leave the theater in fear of being run

over by the train arriving at La Ciotat station (by now cinema’s “founding myth”

has been entirely debunked). But the cinema did serve and still serves as a constant

source of wonder – a source of tears and laughter. Hours spent in the darkness

of a movie theater are hours of wonder, while occasionally punctured by an

interval of tedium.

Thanks to Jean-Luc Godard’s iconic close-up of Anna Karina, and Abbas

Kiarostami’s close-up of Juliette Binoche, it is easy to picture the face of

a viewer glistening with tears in the darkened movie theater, illuminated

only by the soft light reflecting off the silver screen. Now imagine the

same face perusing moving images outside the sanctuary of cinema – in

front of YouTube. Instead of a shadowy and sublime image of stillness and

wonder, it is easy to picture the harshly lit face of someone picking their

nose, masturbating, or nervously skipping through hundreds of streams:

hours of tedium, occasionally punctured by an interval of wonder.

“Anyone who has wasted hours surfing the Internet knows that technology can

encourage bad habits,” Ted Chiang laconically remarked in his 2013 story The

Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling. But on the same page, he conceded that the

true benefits of (any) new technologies have yet to be discovered. We can be certain

of one thing: Having experienced two different technological standards only

seems to provide an ideal perspective for evaluation and comparison. It doesn’t.

I am not an authority on the subject compared to someone born into the age of

new technological standards simply because I experienced the widespread migration

from analog to digital cinema and the subsequent widespread migration from

cinema viewing to home streaming.

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The true benefits of new technologies will only be discovered by generations

that are unbiased and less judgmental, namely people who are perhaps already

completely – and inevitably – transformed by these same new technologies.

We are standing at the edge of a precipice shifting before our very eyes, accelerated

both by predictable factors such as commercial interests, as well as seemingly

unpredictable events, such as viral pandemics. There is only one thing that

remains certain: Whatever transformation or wonder lies beyond our horizon, it

only can and hopefully will be facilitated by the persistence of progressive forces,

such as Innovative Film.

Jurij Meden (b. 1977) is a Slovenian film scholar, writer, programmer and

award-winning experimental filmmaker currently working as curator and

head of the film program at the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna, while also

serving as co-director of the Nitrate Picture Show and editor-in-chief of

KINO! (www.e-kino.si). Meden previously worked as a curator at the George

Eastman House and the Slovenian Cinematheque, and as adjunct professor

of experimental film and video art at University of Nova Gorica School of

Arts Department. In addition to his curatorial and filmmaking activities,

Meden has written and co-written more than 250 publications on cinema.

Revised in English by Eve Heller



facts + figures

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Films Funded

2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Fiction films 6 8 3 9 3 0

Documentary films 47 21 29 17 22 10

Avant-garde films 16 37 38 12 18 15

Full-length films 39 24 19 18 19 10

Short films 30 42 51 20 24 15

Total films 69 66 70 38 43 25

2019

10

30

22

26

36

62

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Facts + Figures


Festival Screenings

Most Frequent Festival Screenings of Films Produced 2017–2020*

Number

Director Film of festivals

Thomas Renoldner don’t know what (2019) 77

Elsa Kremser, Levin Peter Space Dogs (2019) 56

Lukas Marxt Imperial Valley (cultivated run-off) (2018) 51

Johann Lurf ★ (2017) 43

Rainer Kohlberger keep that dream burning (2017) 32

Johann Lurf Cavalcade (2019) 29

Martin Reinhart, Virgil Widrich tx-reverse (2019) 29

Herwig Weiser Haus der Regierung (2018) 25

Siegfried A. Fruhauf Thorax (2019) 24

Rainer Kohlberger

*Deadline September 30 th , 2020

It has to be lived once

and dreamed twice (2019) 20


Awards

The Film Department of the Arts and Culture Division bestows, upon recommendation of

an expert jury, yearly or biennial Outstanding Artist Awards and an Austrian Art Award.

The endowment of the Outstanding Artist Award (normally, two are given in different

genres), comprises € 10,000 per award. Persons recommended for an Outstanding Artist

Award must have produced at least three outstanding and innovative works.

The endowment of the Austrian Art Award is in the amount of € 15,000. Persons recommended

for an Austrian Art Award must have produced at least five innovative works that

have been internationally recognized and reviewed.

Outstanding Artist Awards

2016 Susanne Jirkuff (avant-garde)

Händl Klaus (documentary)

2017 Sudabeh Mortezai (documentary)

Mona Willi (film)

2018 Katrina Daschner (avant-garde)

Daniel Hoesl (fiction)

2019 Ruth Kaaserer (documentary)

Hannes Böck (cinematographer)

2020 Antoinette Zwirchmayr (avant-garde)

Sandra Wollner (fiction)

Austrian Art Awards

2016 Friedl vom Gröller-Kubelka (avant-garde)

2017 Brigitta Burger-Utzer (film)

2018 Siegfried A. Fruhauf (avant-garde)

2019 Martina Kudláček (documentary)

2020 Norbert Pfaffenbichler (avant-garde)

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Facts + Figures


Thomas Pluch Screenplay Award

This award is dedicated to Thomas Pluch (1934–1992), screenwriter, author, and cofounder

of the ARGE Drehbuch (screenplay working group) – since 2002 the Drehbuchverband

Austria (Screenplay Association Austria).

The Thomas-Pluch-Drehbuchpreis (initiated in 1992 by two writers) was first awarded

in 1993. The goal of the award is to aid screenwriters in achieving the recognition they

deserve, and to support talented young writers. The main award is endowed with

€ 12,000, the Thomas Pluch Special Jury Award with € 7,000, and the Thomas Pluch

Award for Short or Medium-Length Fiction Films with € 3,000.

Every year since 2004, international juries select the best screenplays realized as

Austrian film productions. The award money is made available from the Film Department

of the Arts and Culture Division, and the awards are presented in the context of the

Austrian film festival Diagonale in Graz.

Thomas Pluch Screenplay Awards

2016 Main Prize: Elisabeth Scharang for Jack

Special Jury Award: Stefan Hafner and Thomas Weingartner

for Wenn du wüsstest, wie schön es hier ist

Award for Short or Medium Length Feature Film:

Maria Luz Olivares Capelle for Forest of Echoes

2017 Main Prize: Händl Klaus for Kater

Special Jury Award: Monja Art for Siebzehn

and Tizza Covi for Mister Universo

Award for Short or Medium Length Feature Film:

Nora Friedel for Mimikri

2018 Main Prize: Kathrin Resetarits for Licht

Special Jury Award: Clemens Setz, Sebastian Brauneis,

Nicholas Ofczarek for Zauberer

Award for Short or Medium Length Feature Film:

Timothy Bidwell for Der Ausflug

2019 Main Prize: Christian Frosch for Murer - Anatomie eines Prozesses

Special Jury Award: Gregor Schmidinger for Nevrland

Award for Short or Medium Length Feature Film:

Albert Meisl for Die Schwingen des Geistes

2020 Main Prize: Johanna Moder for Waren einmal Revoluzzer

Special Jury Award: Sandra Wollner for The Trouble With Being Born

Award for Short or Medium Length Feature Film:

Stefan Langthaler for Fabiu



outstanding

artist award

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OUTSTANDING ARTIST AWARD 2019 – DOCUMENTARY FILM

Ruth Kaaserer

Born in Kitzbühl, Austria in 1972, Ruth Kaaserer grew up in Munich. She studied

sculpture at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts under Michelangelo Pistoletto.

In 2001, she set up an exhibit in an abandoned country movie theater in Lower

Austria together with Almut Rink. They subsequently released a book entitled

Kino ohne Land – No place for a cinema, including texts about alternative

cinema. Since 2002 Kaaserer has been traveling regularly to the USA where

in 2014 she produced Tough Cookies, her first feature-length documentary

film. Her documentary film Gwendolyn (2017) about weight lifter and retired

Assyriologist Gwendolyn Leick, was widely screened at festivals and garnered

numerous accolades. Kaaserer currently lives and works in Vienna.

Films (Selection)

2017 Gwendolyn (DCP, 85 min)

2014 Tough Cookies (DCP, 80 min)

Awards and Honors (Selection)

2019 Outstanding Artist Award – Documentary Film, Federal Chancellery

of Austria

2018 Franz Grabner Award, Diagonale

2017 Erste Bank ExtraValue Film Award, Viennale

We have chosen to honor documentary

filmmaker Ruth Kaaserer for the impressive

maturity of her work up until now and the

steady hand she exhibits in the choice and

realization of her stories. In the making of her

films, Ruth Kaaserer takes her very own time

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Awards



to listen and to watch. Her finely woven dramaturgy

creates living worlds inhabited by protagonists who

teach us: Everything is a matter of attitude.

Kaaserer stages scenes in front of the camera

with empathy, intelligence and a multi-facetted

sensibility. In so doing, she has developed a style

that combines documentary modes with a visual

vocabulary familiar to us from fiction. The result

is nothing less than: especially worth seeing!

JURY: KATRINA DASCHNER, GERALD KERKLETZ, ELISABETH SCHARANG

English translation by Eve Heller

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Awards


OUTSTANDING ARTIST AWARD 2019 – INNOVATIVE FILM

Hannes Böck

Born 1974 in Vienna. 1994–1996 apprenticeship in photography, Vienna; 1997–

2003 studies at Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, master class in Conceptual

Art under Renée Green; studies at Berlin University of the Arts, Heinz Emigholz

Experimental Filmmaking Class; 2005 graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in

Vienna, master class under Marina Grzinic; 2011–2014 senior artist at Academy of

Fine Arts in Vienna, in film and video.

Main fields of research include technologies of film and video production in art

and experimental film, historical visual languages in narrative and experimental

cinema, visual language in scientific image production. Discourses on film aesthetics,

visual studies and historical criticism provide central points of reference

in Böck’s films and photo series.

Films (Selection)

2019 Sammlung Bau- und Schmuckstein Altes Rom (16 mm, silent, 15 min)

2013 5 Skulpturen (16 mm, silent, 9 min)

2012 Las Encantadas (16 mm, 10 min)

2011 Niches Cut Into Bedrock (16 mm, 10 min)

2008 New Hefei (16 mm, 10 min)

Prizes and Scholarships (Selection)

2019 Outstanding Artist Award – Innovative Film, Federal Chancellery of Austria

2009 Studio Scholarship Mexico City

Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture, Austria

2006 Studio Scholarship Nanjing, China

Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture, Austria

2004 Work Scholarship, Federal Chancellery of Austria


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The jury distinguishes Hannes Böck for outstanding

achievement as cinematographer, film and image

processor in the field of innovative film. Over the

course of many years, his precise visual composition

and editing work has contributed to the success of

innumerable Austrian productions created by a wide

array of artists including Antoinette Zwirchmayr, Constanze

Ruhm, Dorit Margreiter and Florian Pumhösl.

It is impossible to imagine the field of innovative film

without Hannes Böck, and likewise, his sensitive way

of understanding the most various of artistic processes.

His consistently static images appear electrified.

It is as if he breathes life into the surfaces, architecture

and landscapes he films, capturing images

that exhale an extraordinary calm and clarity that

we encounter onscreen. Similarly, his montage work

captivates by virtue of a slowness that instinctively

finds the right rhythm, abstract images often seeming

to communicate with one another as if engaged

in a natural dialog.

JURY: KATRINA DASCHNER, GERALD KERKLETZ, ELISABETH SCHARANG

English translation by Eve Heller



austrian art award

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Martina Kudláček

Born in 1965, Martina Kudláček lives in Vienna, working on film, video, photography,

and artistic research projects as well as archival projects. She received

her MFA in Cinematography and Documentary Film Directing from the Film and TV

Academy FAMU in Prague, Czech Republic. 1997–1998 Kudláček did a fellowship

at the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne. 2017 she obtained a PhD from the

Department for Theater, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna.

Kudláček serves as screenplay writer, director, and often producer and camera

person on her award-winning films, widely screened at international festivals,

cinematheques, museums and universities.

Her work focuses on biographies and the history of avant-garde film. Titles such

as In the Mirror of Maya Deren (2001), Notes on Marie Menken (2005) and Fragments

of Kubelka (2012) have become standard works integral to the teaching of

film history. Between 2007 and 2012, Kudláček taught at FAMU in Prague and

lectured internationally.

In 2004, she was distinguished with the “Film Preservation Award” by Anthology

Film Archives in New York, having worked on several projects with its director,

Jonas Mekas. Additionally, Kudláček took part in archival projects for the Austrian

Film Museum in Vienna, the Národní filmový archiv in Prague, the Theater

Research Collection Schloss Wahn in Cologne, the Helnwein Archive, the Len Lye

Foundation of New Zealand, as well as private collections.

Her curatorial projects include important exhibitions at Fotogalerie Wien, as

a founding member of the Collective, and since 2015 she has taken part in

curatorial collaborations at the Jacobs Museum in Zürich, as well as curating the

Maya Deren Exhibition in 2018 at documenta 14 in Kassel, Germany.

Kudláček is currently working on a film about Austrian avant-garde filmmaker

Kurt Kren and heading a project in collaboration with Anthology Film Archives to

restore the Haitian film footage of filmmaker Maya Deren.

Films (Selection)

2012 Fragments of Kubelka (DCP, 232 min)

2006 Notes on Marie Menken (35 mm + DCP, 97 min)

2001 In the Mirror of Maya Deren (35 mm, 103 min)

1996 Aimless Walk – Alexander Hammid (16 mm, 50 min)

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1995 L’amour fou – Ludvík Šváb (16 mm, 50 min)

1994 Positivita (S-16 mm, 40 min)

1997 The Last Heroes (16 mm, 30 min)

Prizes and Distinctions (Selection)

2019 Austrian Art Award – Film, Federal Chancellery of Austria

2017 Hubert Sielecki Award for Artistic Film, Austria

2008 Outstanding Artist Award for Film Art, Federal Chancellery of Austria

2004 Film Preservation Award, Anthology Film Archives, New York

2002 Dance Screen Award for Best Documentary, Monaco

2001 Vienna Film Award, Viennale

1996 Special Recognition Award Trilobit - by FITES, Prague

1995 Main Prize DokumentArt in Neubrandenburg, Germany

Main Prize for Best Director FAMUfest, Prague

1994–95 VISIONS/European Documentary Film Workshop

1994 Special Recognition Award Trilobit – by FITES, Prague

1990 Carl Mayer Screenplay Award, Graz

Internationally acclaimed film director, screenwriter

and film producer Martina Kudláček is singlehandedly

enriching the world of cinema with her invaluable

series of documentary films dedicated to some

of the greatest artists of the 20th century, including

avant-garde film pioneers Maya Deren and Peter

Kubelka.

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A wonderful aspect of her contribution includes

unsung work behind the scenes. Kudláček’s

painstaking research has rescued filmic gems on

the brink of turning to dust, including information

and moments of beauty that shed a nuanced light

on her subject, art history and world culture.

She has recorded countless hours of interviews for

posterity with renowned scholars, filmmakers and

other individuals contemporary to her subjects –

many no longer with us – creating a treasure trove

of primary source material for future archives.

In a day and age of funding increasingly

driven by ignorance and short-sighted

profit, Kudláček’s aesthetically crafted and

highly informative documentary portraits

communicate an understanding that will

speak to future generations for ages to come,

here in Austria and the rest of the world.

JURY: EVE HELLER, SIEGFRIED A. FRUHAUF, MARA MATTUSCHKA

English translation by Eve Heller



films

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Ordinary Creatures

Thomas Marschall

The Trouble With Being Born

Sandra Wollner


fiction

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Ordinary Creatures Thomas Marschall

Austria

English

4K CinemaScope 1:2.39

Dolby SR

75 min

Screenplay

Thomas Marschall

Anna Mendelssohn

Key Cast

Anna Mendelssohn

Joep van der Geest

Camera Martin Putz

Editor Stefan Fauland

Producer

Daniela Praher

Production

Daniela Praher

Filmproduktion

“Keep your eyes on the road, your hands on the wheel.”

Martha and Alex should have taken Jim Morrison’s

advice to heart. But during their drive through an idyllic

landscape, they are primarily occupied with themselves.

Only when real life comes crashing into their

small self-involved world in the shape of a little dog and

its grim owner, things start really happening – more

than they could have asked for. A devious road movie

full of hefty surprises.

Thomas Marschall *1974 Vienna Austria

Films (selection) Fronteira Brasil (2010 short d) Faces of

the Frontier (2010 d) Nekronautische Übungen (2007 short d)

Premiere

October 2020 Vienna

Diagonale’20 –

The Unfinished

Contact

Daniela Praher

Filmproduktion

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Fiction


The Trouble With Being Born Sandra Wollner

Austria/Germany

German (Eng sub)

2K 4:3 Dolby 5.1

94 min

Screenplay Roderick

Warich, Sandra Wollner

Key Cast Lena Watson

Dominik Warta

Ingrid Burkhard

Camera Timm Kröger

Editor Hannes Bruun

Producers Lixi Frank

David Bohun, Andi G

Hess, Astrid Schäfer

Viktoria Stolpe

Timm Kröger

Production

Panama Film (AT)

The Barricades

ZDF – Das kleine

Fernsehspiel

Filmakademie Baden-

Württemberg (DE)

Elli is an android and lives with a man she calls her

father. They drift through the summer together. They

swim in the pool during the day and at night he takes

her to bed with him. She shares his memories and

anything else he programs her to recall – memories

that mean everything to him but nothing to her. But

one night she sets off into the woods to follow a fading

echo … The story of a machine and the ghosts we all

carry within us.

Sandra Wollner *1983 Leoben Austria

Films (selection) Das unmögliche Bild (2016 f)

Viktor (2015 short f) Uns geht es gut (2013 short f)

Premiere February

2020 Berlinale – Berlin

International Film Festival

Contact

Panama Film


Bitte warten ...

Pavel Cuzuioc

Davos

Daniel Hoesl

Julia Niemann

Gli appunti di Anna Azzori

Constanze Ruhm

Glory to the Queen

Tatia Skhirtladze

Anna Khazaradze

Room Without a View

Roser Corella

Der schönste Platz auf Erden

Elke Groen

Sigmund Freud. Jude ohne Gott

David Teboul

This Land Is My Land

Susanne Brandstätter


documentary

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Bitte warten ... Pavel Cuzuioc

Austria

Romanian/Russian/

Bulgarian/Ukrainian/

English (Eng sub)

DCP 2K 1:1.85

Dolby 5.1

86 min

Concept/Camera

Pavel Cuzuioc

Editor

Samira Ghahremani

Producer

Pavel Cuzuioc

Production

Pavel Cuzuioc

Filmproduktion

An audiovisual allegory on communication – the film

Please Hold the Line follows cable technicians in Eastern

Europe, as they visit their customers. Each client

they call on provides a glimpse into their own individual

universe. With so many tools for communication, we

still inhabit a modern-day Tower of Babel: an ordered

discordance of personalities and perspectives.

Pavel Cuzuioc *1978 Republic of Moldova

Films (selection) Secondo Me (2016 d) Raisa (2015 short f)

Digging for Life (2011 d)

Premiere June 2020

Sheffield Doc/Fest

International

Documentary Festival

Contact

Pavel Cuzuioc

Filmproduktion

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Documentary


Davos Daniel Hoesl, Julia Niemann

Austria

German/English/

French/Pashto/Russian/

Portuguese/Italian

(Eng sub)

DCP 1:1.85 Dolby Stereo

100 min

Concept Daniel Hoesl

Screenplay

Julia Niemann

Camera Andi Widmer

Editor Gerhard Daurer

Producer

Georg Aschauer

Daniel Hoesl

Julia Niemann

Production

European Film

Conspiracy

Much of what drives our world becomes paradigmatic

in Davos: Farmers work as they did centuries ago, in

contrast to a global elite that operates without being

tied to a particular place – virtually without touching

the ground. Davos is a film about our fractured world,

about equilibrium and contrast in our society, about the

impact of the powerful on the many.

Daniel Hoesl *1982 St. Pölten Austria

Films (selection) Winwin (2016 f) Soldate Jeannette (2013 f)

The Madness of the Day (2011 short f)

Julia Niemann *1987 Deggendorf Germany

Premiere April 2020

Visions du Réel

International Film Festival

Nyon (online edition)

Contact

European Film

Conspiracy


Gli appunti di Anna Azzori

Constanze Ruhm

Austria

German/Italian

(Eng sub)

DCP 2K 1:1.85

color/b&w

Dolby Digital

72 min

Concept/Producer

Constanze Ruhm

Camera

Hannes Böck

Jessyca R. Hauser

Editors

Hannes Böck

Constanze Ruhm

Premiere

February 2020

Berlinale – Berlin

International Film

Festival

The film refers to the Italian underground movie Anna

(Grifi/Sarchielli), which documents a few months in

the life of the homeless and pregnant girl Anna. The

directors who she meets in Piazza Navona in the Spring

of 1972 offer her help. In exchange they make Anna

the main character of a film project which oscillates

between documentation and (re-)staging, empathy

and exploitation. Gli appunti di Anna Azzori is based on

Anna’s “fictitious notes” and is conceived as a feminist

reply to Grifi’s and Sarchielli’s production.

Constanze Ruhm *1965 Vienna Austria

Films (selection) Panoramis Paramount Paranormal – Three

Times a Film (co-director 2017 a-g) Kalte Probe (co-director

2013 f) Crash Site/My_Never_Ending_Burial_Plot (2010 f)

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Documentary


Glory to the Queen

Tatia Skhirtladze, Anna Khazaradze

Austria/Georgia/Serbia

Georgian/Russian/

Serbian/English

(Ger/Eng sub)

DCP color/b&w

stereo 82 min

Concept Tatia Skhirtladze

Ina Ivanceanu

Camera Sebastian Thaler

Editor Petra Zöpnek

Producers

Karin Berghammer (AT)

Anna Khazaradze, Nino

Chichua, Linda Jensen (GE)

Sarita Matijević (RS)

Alexander Dumreicher-

Ivanceanu (AT)

Production

berg hammer film (AT)

1991 Productions (GE)

Playground produkcija (RS)

Amour Fou Vienna (AT)

During the Cold War, four legendary female chess

players from Georgia revolutionized women’s chess

across the globe and became Soviet icons of female

emancipation. The film reveals their interwoven biographies

and is both a rare look into the present lives

of chess stars Nona Gaprindashvili, Nana Alexandria,

Maia Chiburdanidze and Nana Ioseliani, as well as a

chronicle of their lasting legacy.

Tatia Skhirtladze *1976 Tbilisi Georgia

Films (selection) Illusion (2017 a-g) One Year (2014 short d)

Anna Khazaradze *1991 Tbilisi Georgia

Films (selection) Kaba (2015 short f)

Who is Shizuka Yokomizo? (2013 short d)

Premiere September 2020

CinéDOC Tbilisi

International Documentary

Film Festival

Contact

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Room Without a View Roser Corella

Austria/Germany

Arabic/French/

Amharic/Bengali

(Eng sub)

HD 16:9

Dolby SR

73 min

Concept/Camera

Roser Corella

Editors

Ginés Olivares

Florian Kläger

The film chronicles the dire reality of foreign domestic

workers in Middle Eastern countries, such as Lebanon. By

combining a multitude of perspectives, it offers intimate

insights into the private lives of employers, agents and

maids. Exposing modern forms of slavery, it also reflects

on the role of women and domestic work at large in

capitalist societies.

Roser Corella *1978 Barcelona Spain

Films (selection) Grab and Run (2017 d) Prisoners of Kanun

(2014 short d) Machine Man (2011 short d)

Producers

Roser Corella

Florian Kläger

Production

moving mountains films

Contact

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Documentary


Der schönste Platz auf Erden Elke Groen

Austria

German (Eng sub)

DCP

Dolby Digital 5.1

87 min

Concept/Camera

Elke Groen

Editor

Stephan Bechinger

Producers

Arash T. Riahi

Sabine Gruber

Elke Groen

Production

Golden Girls

Filmproduktion

groen.film

There is a small town in Austria called Pinkafeld that

gained adverse publicity as a “Nazi village” during the

presidential election of 2016, when a majority of its

citizens voted for their famous neighbor, the right-wing

candidate Norbert Hofer. What do people really think

in regard to their homeland, refugees and populism?

The Most Beautiful Place on Earth shows a society in

transition, a microcosm reflecting Europe’s zeitgeist.

Elke Groen *1969 Gmunden Austria

Films (selection) Bojo Beach (2017 short d)

Optical Sound (co-director 2014 a-g) NightStill (2007 a-g)

Premiere September

2020 Musikverein Graz

Diagonale’20 – The

Unfinished

Contact

Golden Girls

Filmproduktion


Sigmund Freud. Jude ohne Gott David Teboul

Austria/France

German

DCP Dolby Digital

97 min

Concept David Teboul

François Prodromidès

Voices Johannes

Silberschneider

Birgit Minichmayr

André Jung

Camera Martin Roux

Editor

Caroline Detournay

Producers

Richard Copans

Ebba Sinzinger

Anne Cohen-Solal

Vincent Lucassen

Production

WILDart FILM (AT)

Les Films d’Ici (FR)

Arte France (FR)

Sigmund Freud developed psychoanalysis in turn-of-thecentury

Vienna, where he continued to practise until

1938, when he was forced into exile and escaped to

London. An intimate portrait – told from the perspective

of his daughter Anna and based on Freud’s correspondence

and writings – A Jew Without God is also a

questioning of “home” and “Jewish identity.” Previously

unpublished archival footage presents one of the most

influential figures in the 20 th century not only as a keen

thinker, but also as a private person in many facets.

David Teboul *1967 Paris France

Films (selection) mon amour (2019 d)

Bardot, la méprise (2014 d)

Boris Mikhailov, I’ve Been Here Once Before (2009 d)

Premiere September

2020 Diagonale’20 –

The Unfinished

Contact

WILDart FILM

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Documentary


This Land Is My Land Susanne Brandstätter

Austria

English (Ger/Eng sub)

DCP

Dolby 5.1

105 min

Concept

Susanne Brandstätter

Camera

Joerg Burger

Editors

Susanne Brandstätter

Michaela Müllner

Sound Design

Wolf-Maximilian Liebich

Producer

Susanne Brandstätter

“What the hell happened to my country?” After Donald

Trump’s election, this is a burning question to the

American filmmaker who’s lived most her life in Austria.

With the critical distance of a European and an insider’s

eye, she gets close to some Trump voters in Ohio:

a microcosm of a deeply divided USA. Following the

golden rule “don’t argue, listen ...,” the documentary

explores polarization and why people stick to

their political opinions – no matter what. So the film

is a plea for an objective, yet courageous debate.

Susanne Brandstätter *Los Angeles USA

Films (selection) The Future’s Past – Creating Cambodia

(2012 d) Rule of Law (2006 d) Checkmate – Strategy

of a Revolution (2004 d)

Premiere

September 2020

BelDocs Belgrade

International

Documentary Film

Festival

Contact

Susanne Brandstätter

Filmproduktion


Casting Tapes

Ulrike Putzer

Matthias van Baaren


fiction short

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Fiction Short


Casting Tapes

Ulrike Putzer

Matthias van Baaren

Casting Tapes is a filmic picture puzzle:

a theatrical film about an actress on the one

hand, and a documentation about acting on

the other.

Ulrike Putzer *1982 Vienna Austria

Films (selection) Hände zum Himmel

(co-director 2013 short d)

Elephant Skin (co-director 2009 short f)

Matthias van Baaren *1977 Vienna Austria

Films (selection) Hände zum Himmel

(co-director 2013 short d)

Die Falten des Königs (2011 short d)

Austria

German (Eng sub)

HD 16:9

stereo

23 min

Concept/Producers Ulrike Putzer

Matthias van Baaren

Key Cast Lisa Furtner

Naemi Latzer, Sandra Lipp

Camera Harald Traindl

Editor Nooran Talebi

Premiere July 2020 Vienna

dotdotdot – Open Air Short Film Festival

Contact Ulrike Putzer

Matthias van Baaren


Am Gang

Claudia Dermutz

Children’s Film

Amina Handke

Fahren

Veronika Barnaš

Was eine Familie leisten kann

Sybille Bauer


documentary

short

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Am Gang

Claudia Dermutz

Children’s Film

Amina Handke

Am Gang is a film about the communal

stairs and hallways of an apartment

building. Or rather, about its inhabitants. It

shows what a silent onlooker in the hallways

of a house might notice about the life of

the building’s residents. Moments of the

tenants’ lives are captured (in image and

in sound) that are felt in the peripheral

space of the hallways and make up its

character. Scraps of thought, associations,

interpretations and expanding on them –

that is the focus of the film.

Claudia Dermutz *1978 Friesach Austria

Films (selection) 30 some things (2012 short d)

3 Stockwerke lang (2010 a-g)

Ohne Einander (2008 short f)

Austria

German (Eng sub)

HD 16:9

color/b&w

Dolby SR

25 min

Concept Claudia Dermutz

Camera David Auner

Editor Christin Veith

Producer

Christine Ajayi

Contact

Claudia Dermutz

The story of the first three or four years in a

child’s life and its key moments, told from

a child’s perspective. A central aspect of

early childhood, nonverbal communication

and its gradual broadening into language, is

conveyed by filmic means, by accompanying

a child and its development, its interaction

with its environment. We experience the

child’s first utterances, moods, emotions

and needs. Long-term observation reveals

some special features of this period of life.

Amina Handke *1969 Berlin Germany

Films (selection) Academy Album. A Guide in

52 Miniatures (a-g, d 2018) Mother of Mother

(2015 short d) Hysteria 2.0.0 v01 (2014 a-g)

Appropriated Beggars (2013 multichannel a-g)

Austria

German (Eng sub)

2K 1:1.85

Dolby Stereo

27 min

Concept Amina Handke

Camera Leena Koppe

Binsar Panjaitan

Editor Oliver Neumann

Amina Handke

Producers Oliver Neumann

Sabine Moser

Production FreibeuterFilm

Contact FreibeuterFilm

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Documentary Short


Fahren

Veronika Barnaš

Was eine Familie leisten

kann Sybille Bauer

Riding follows the production and operation

of the temporary spectacle that is the fair

over the course of one season in presentday

Austria. It provides insight into the

mechanisms of the fairground – the rides

and their mechanical aesthetics, and the

travelling showpeople’s work in front of and

behind the scenes of the fair. Movements of

the showpeople, their rides, and the visitors

constitute the film’s central theme.

Veronika Barnaš *1978 Vienna Austria

Austria

German (Eng sub)

HD 16:9

Dolby SR

30 min

Concept/Camera/Producer

Veronika Barnaš

Editor

Karin Hammer

Music

Bernhard Hammer

Premiere

July 2020 Vienna

dotdotdot – Open Air Short Film Festival

Contact

Veronika Barnaš

A seemingly happy family crumbles under

the weight of keeping up appearances: The

mother – a young, attractive, social climber

– is overburdened. The father – eloquent, a

good provider and soulmate – withdraws into

himself when he is diagnosed with Parkinson’s

disease. The child – author and director

of the film – starts to exhibit “problematic”

behavior early on. She is the one in the family

who exhibits symptoms of the family’s

dysfunction. The memories about this girl tell

of emotional abuse and childhood isolation

while looking toward an unwritten future.

Sybille Bauer *1989 Linz Austria

Films (selection) Kein halbes Leben (2018 d)

My condition is good but temporally limited.

(2016 short d) Mariedl (2014 short d)

Austria

German (Eng sub)

HD 1:1.85

b&w

Dolby SR

30 min

Concept/Producer Sybille Bauer

Camera Judith Benedikt

Klemens Koscher

Editor Lisa Zoe Geretschläger

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2551.01

Norbert Pfaffenbichler

All the Stops

Josef Dabernig

Filmkorrespondenz

Manfred Schwaba

Antoinette Zwirchmayr

Pomp

Katrina Daschner

A proposal to project in Scope

Viktoria Schmid

Tovo

Thomas Steiner

We have more than beds to dream in

Bernd Oppl

Where Is Lotte?

Petra Zöpnek


avant-garde short

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2551.01

Norbert Pfaffenbichler

All the Stops

Josef Dabernig

This aesthetically and substantively bleak

experimental film plays host to a cast of

masked actors in strictly window-less

interiors. The nightmarish story establishes

an uncanny and threatening atmosphere.

The film borrows upon various surrealist

avant-garde films, as well as classical

science fiction and horror movies.

Norbert Pfaffenbichler *1967 Steyr Austria

Films (selection) Invest in Failure (2018 f, a-g)

A Messenger From the Shadows (2013 f, a-g)

Mosaik mécanique (2007 a-g)

Austria

No dialog

4K 4:3

Dolby Stereo

62 min

Concept/Editor/Producer

Norbert Pfaffenbichler

Key Cast

Stefan Erber

David Ionescu

Camera

Martin Putz

Editor

Norbert Pfaffenbichler

Sales

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Mansion – church – hairdressers, mansion –

church – bar, mansion – church – cemetery.

In the rhythm of household chores and

social engagements, a musician works her

way, conducting a handful of helpers like

her own little chamber orchestra.

Josef Dabernig *1956

Kötschach-Mauthen Austria

Films (selection) Heavy Metal Detox (2019 a-g)

Stabat Mater (2016 a-g)

Zlaté Piesky Rocket Launch (2015 a-g)

Austria

No dialog

DCP 1:1.85

5.1

16 min

Concept/Editor

Josef Dabernig

Camera Christian Giesser

Music Christoph Herndler

Sound Design Michael Palm

Producer Josef Dabernig

Co-Producer steirischer herbst ’20

Premiere September 2020

Paranoia TV, steirischer herbst ‘20

Contact

Josef Dabernig

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Avant-Garde Short


Filmkorrespondenz

Manfred Schwaba

Antoinette Zwirchmayr

From the spring of 2018 to the spring

of 2019, Austrian filmmakers Manfred

Schwaba and Antoinette Zwirchmayr – who

up to this point had maintained a faithful,

intense “letter friendship” – switched to

an unusual, artistic and intense method of

communication. Their letters adopted the

form of short analog films, shot on silent

16 mm, edited mostly “in camera,” to be

(hand-)developed by the receiver rather than

by the sender. (Neil Young)

Manfred Schwaba *1973 Vienna Austria

Films (selection) 52 Films or: My First Garden

(2017 a-g) Tagebuch bis erster Schnee (2017 a-g)

Atlantic35 (2016 a-g)

Antoinette Zwirchmayr *1989 Oberndorf Austria

Films (selection) The Shadow of Utopia (2018

a-g) Josef – My Father’s Criminal Record (2016 d)

The Pimp and His Trophies (2014 d)

Austria

No dialog

16 mm

b&w

60 min

Realisation

Antoinette Zwirchmayr

Manfred Schwaba

Contact

Manfred Schwaba

Antoinette Zwirchmayr

Pomp

Katrina Daschner

Pomp is the eighth part of a series based on

Arthur Schnitzler’s Traumnovelle. Circular

choreography, the dome of the sound stage

in Düsseldorf, a heavenly ceiling resembling

the firmament and universe: The pompous

circular choreography mixes with heavenly

projections. Finger dances in gold satin

gloves, brimming carafes of champagne

in pyramidal cones, performers in catsuits

who emerge from the same colored

background. Everything turns. Pure pomp.

Katrina Daschner *1973 Bad Kissingen Germany

Films (selection) Plum Circus (2019 a-g)

Pfauenloch (2018 a-g) Pferdebusen (2017 a-g)

Austria

No dialog

DCP 2K flat

stereo

8 min

Concept Katrina Daschner

Camera Hannes Böck

Editors Hannes Böck

Katrina Daschner

Producers Katrina Daschner

Anna Spanlang

Production Lady Chutney Production

Premiere May 2020

International Short Film Festival Oberhausen

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A proposal to project in

Scope Viktoria Schmid

Tovo

Thomas Steiner

In a cinema the screen needs to become

invisible in order to serve as a window to the

world. In Viktoria Schmid’s series A proposal

to project, the screen is allowed to fulfill a

different purpose. It is the main protagonist.

The screen in Scope-format is set up at the

Curonian Split’s seashore, in Lithuania, in a

landscape corresponding with the qualities

of the screen’s wide-screen-format. The film

shows the screen for the duration of one day:

The sun and trees perform a subtle interplay

of light and shadow while the sea and wind

create the surround sound of the 35 mm film.

Viktoria Schmid *1986 Neuhofen/Ybbs Austria

Films (selection) W O W (Kodak) (2018 a-g)

A proposal to project (in 4:3) (2016 a-g)

It’s a Dance (2014 a-g)

Austria

No dialog

35 mm CinemaScope 1:2.35

Dolby Digital

8 min

Concept/Editor Viktoria Schmid

Camera Vilius Mačiulskis

Premiere January 2020

International Film Festival Rotterdam

Sales

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Tovo is an animated film which makes experimental

use of analog and digital technologies,

going beyond the usual constricts

of the genre. A hiking path is repeatedly

followed, and interventions in the form of

drawings are imposed on certain landmarks.

Abstract images come into being with the

help of recapitulation and superimposition.

The film formulates visual concepts and invites

us to take part in this thinking process.

Thomas Steiner *1956 Wels Austria

Films (selection) Fluide (2018 a-g)

Lap of Luxury (2016 a-g) Theresia (2013 a-g)

Austria

No dialog

DCP 2K flat

color/b&w

stereo

8 min

Realisation

Thomas Steiner

Music

Werner Puntigam

Premiere October 2020

Crossing Europe Linz

Sales

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Avant-Garde Short


We have more than beds

to dream in Bernd Oppl

Where Is Lotte?

Petra Zöpnek

The setting for this film is provided by a model

of a waiting room, resembling what one

might encounter in an airport. A black cloud

begins to spread out in the waiting room.

It is ink that mixes in with the model in the

water. The chaotic process of its diffusion

meets with the organized structure of the

waiting room, gradually dissolving it entirely.

Bernd Oppl *1980 Innsbruck Austria

Films (selection) Substanzaufnahme

(co-director 2016 a-g) Hotel Room (2011 short f)

Flock (2010 short f)

Austria

No dialog

DCP 2K

stereo

6 min

Realisation

Bernd Oppl

Music

Andreas Kurz

Premiere March 2020 Kunsthalle Graz

as part of Diagonale’20 – The Unfinished

(online)

Contact

Bernd Oppl

Homage to Lotte Hass (1928–2015), the

“first lady of diving.” This experimental film

is a memorial leap. Underwater models

stand in for Lotte, or rather: They jump in for

her. They jump into the Old Danube and go

searching, in a state of floating, before they

rise again, transformated, in the Red Sea.

Their body parts and limbs flicker, become

blurred. The movements of all the divers, of

water, air and mysterious plants turn into a

collective action.

Petra Zöpnek *1969 Vienna Austria

Films (Selection) Mädchen in Rot und Gold

(2006 a-g)

Austria

No dialog

DCP

b&w

Dolby 5.1

9 min

Realisation Petra Zöpnek

Key Cast Underwater models, Old Danube

and Red Sea

Music GIL CHÉRI (= Gilbert Handler, Petra Zöpnek)

Sound Design Gilbert Handler

Premiere September 2020 Varna, Bulgaria

In the Palace - International Short Film Festival

Contact

Petra Zöpnek



films in production

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Beatrix

Milena Czernovsky

Lilith Kraxner

Die brennende Nacht

Johannes Hammel

Folgenlos – A Film Without

Consequences

Jakob Brossmann

Soldat Ahmet

Jannis Lenz

Sparschwein

Christoph Schwarz

Swimming Pool

Filip Antoni Malinowski

Verabredung im Herbst

Sebastian Brauneis


fiction

in production

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Fiction in Production


Beatrix Milena Czernovsky, Lilith Kraxner

Austria

German/English

(Eng sub)

16 mm DCP 1:1.33

Dolby Surround

approx. 95 min

Screenplay/Editors

Milena Czernovsky

Lilith Kraxner

Key Cast Eva Sommer

Katharina Farnleitner

Marthe de Crouy-Chanel

Camera

Antonia de la Luz Kašik

Beatrix ends up spending the summer alone in a house.

Unobserved for the first time, she starts observing

herself and is confronted with her intimacy but also her

insecurities. While different characters enter and leave

the world she created for herself, she begins to let go

of societal expectations and allows herself to follow her

impulses. We see Beatrix between boredom, amusement

and loneliness accompanied by the unfolding

drama of everyday situations.

Milena Czernovsky *1993 Graz Austria

Lilith Kraxner *1995 Pichling Austria

Producers

Lara Bellon

Milena Czernovsky

Lilith Kraxner

Completion 2021

Contact

Milena Czernovsky

Lilith Kraxner


Die brennende Nacht

Johannes Hammel

Austria

German

4K+S-8 mm

color/b&w

stereo/mono

approx. 75 min

Screenplay

Johannes Hammel

Key Cast

Nikolaus Habjan

Karl Fischer

Susi Stach

Realisation

Johannes Hammel

Production

hammelfilm

The Burning Night is an experiment with dolls and

actors, presenting an elderly homeless man suffering

from complete memory loss as he pursues his

doppelganger. All that he can find of the unknown

man is an old suitcase with an id card, an audiotape

machine and the recordings of his diary. As if under

the spell of a daydream, the homeless man starts to

take on the identity of his doppelganger: The homeless

man dreams himself up. He dreams of the wife he

has lost, he watches her together with her new lover.

He dreams of old business trips and his past life.

Johannes Hammel *1963 Basel Switzerland

Films (selection) Buildings (2015 a-g) Rooms (2013 a-g)

Folge mir (2010 f)

Completion 2022

Contact

hammelfilm

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Fiction in Production


Folgenlos – A Film Without Consequences

Jakob Brossmann

Austria/Germany

German/French/English

(Ger/Eng sub)

2K+4K 1:1.85

Dolby SR

approx. 73 min

Screenplay

Friedrich von Borries

Jakob Brossmann

Key Cast Albert Meisl

Katharina Meves

Milo Rau

Camera Fabian Spuck

Serafin Spitzer

Editor Lisa Zoe

Geretschläger

On the set of a fiction film, the team struggles with

the provoking theses of writer Friedrich von Borries:

Humans, and especially artists, should strive for

a life without consequences. A film about ecology,

revolution, the power of art, the beauty of failing

and a farewell to success.

Jakob Brossmann *1986 Vienna Austria

Films (selection) Gehört, Gesehen (2019 d) Lampedusa in

Winter (2015 d) #unibrennt – Bildungsprotest 2.0 (2010 d)

Producers

Clemens Schaeffer

Friedrich von Borries

Jakob Brossmann

Production

Finali Film & Wortschatz

Produktion (AT)

NFP* (DE)

Completion 2021

Contact

Jakob Brossmann


Soldat Ahmet Jannis Lenz

Austria

German/Turkish

(Eng/Ger sub)

HD 16:9

Dolby Stereo

approx. 75 min

Concept

Jannis Lenz

Key Cast

Ahmet Simsek

Camera

Jakob Fuhr

Editors

Jannis Lenz

Roland Stöttinger

Nooran Talebi

Ahmet slides between worlds – as a professional soldier

in the Austrian army, national champion in boxing

and son of Turkish immigrants, he tries his hand at

the world of drama. Giving free rein to his emotions

turns out to be more difficult for Ahmet than expected.

Soldier Ahmet is a film that wanders between the worlds

of documentary and fiction – just like its protagonist.

Jannis Lenz *1983 Filderstadt Germany

Films (selection) Battlefield (2020 a-g)

Wannabe (2017 short f) Schattenboxer (2015 f)

Producers

David Bohun

Lixi Frank

Production

Panama Film

Completion 2021

Contact

Panama Film

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Fiction in Production


Sparschwein Christoph Schwarz

Austria

German/English

(Eng sub)

2K+4K 1:1.85

Dolby Digital

approx. 70 min

Concept

Christoph Schwarz

Camera

Georg Geutebrück

Christian Schwab

Marie-Thérèse Zumtobel

Editor

Christian Schwab

The filmmaker Christoph Schwarz is broke. Might he

artistically exploit this emergency situation and shoot a

documentary chronicling how he goes on a money strike

for a year? But what should he do about the director’s

fee to which he is entitled? Should he throw it into a

campfire and let it burn in a bold anti-capitalistic gesture

or should he buy a vacation house in Austria’s Waldviertel

after all? Piggy Bank is a self-ironic meta-documentary

about the economic potential of a money strike.

Christoph Schwarz *1981 Vienna Austria

Films (selection) Die beste Stadt ist keine Stadt (2019 short d)

CSL (2018 short d, f) LDAE (2017 short d, f)

Producer

Christoph Schwarz

Production

ARGE Schwarz

Completion 2022

Contact

Christoph Schwarz


Swimming Pool Filip Antoni Malinowski

Austria/Poland/

Germany

Polish/German

(Eng sub)

4K 1:1.85

Dolby SR

approx. 95 min

Screenplay

Filip Antoni Malinowski

Key Cast Jasmina Polak

Mateusz Król

Konrad Stein

Editor

Frank Brummundt

After the sudden separation from her boyfriend Marek,

conscientious Polish lifeguard Julia (30) finds refuge

and meaning in life in a patriotic militia. She quickly

becomes a leader in the male-dominated association,

but at the same time has to realise that the gap

between the actions of the troop and her moral values

is constantly growing ...

Filip Antoni Malinowski *1982 Poznań Poland

Films (selection) Guardians of the Earth (2017 d)

Resettlement (2012 d)

Producers

Jürgen Karasek, Filip

Antoni Malinowski

Marcin Wierzchosławski

Gregor Streiber

Friedemann Hottenbacher

Production

Soleil Film (AT)

Metro Films (PL)

Inselfilm (DE)

Completion 2022

Contact Soleil Film

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Fiction in Production


Verabredung im Herbst Sebastian Brauneis

Austria

German/English/

French

(Eng/Ger sub)

2K+4K 1:1.85

Dolby Digital

approx. 109 min

Screenplay

Sebastian Brauneis

Key Cast

Marlene Hauser

Julia Franz Richter

Lukas Watzl

Camera

Sebastian Brauneis

Editors

Antonia Adelsberger

Sebastian Brauneis

The opposite of “good” is “well-meant.” An Autumn

Rendezvous is a film about love and its moods of

departure. A film of great longing about great longings.

A melodrama about the little lies in relationships

that are supposed to “protect” the other person

from being hurt, but which in reality arise from one’s

own cowardice and only make things worse. And yet,

everyone is left with a smile in the end.

Sebastian Brauneis *1978 Vienna Austria

Films (selection) 3Freunde2Feinde (2020 f) Zauberer (2017 f)

Shadows – Cien w futrach (2008 short f)

Producer

Sebastian Brauneis

Production

Studio Brauneis

Completion 2021

Contact

Studio Brauneis


Alterlaa – 27 Storeys

Bianca Gleissinger

Auf der Suche nach

der gestohlenen Zeit

Konrad Wakolbinger

Aus der Wunderwelt

Alice Durst

Christian Neubacher

Before I Die

Juri Rechinsky

Carla Lonzi – Ein Porträt

zweiter Ordnung

Constanze Ruhm

Dariush

Luise Müller

Dreaming Dogs and Barking Men

Elsa Kremser

Levin Peter

Endphase

Hans Hochstöger

Eva-Maria

Lukas Ladner

it works 20

Fridolin Schönwiese

Just Be There

Caspar Pfaundler

Krai

Aleksey Lapin

Kurt Kren

Martina Kudláček

The Life of Sean DeLear

Markus Zizenbacher

Mirrors

Alireza Ghanie

My Room

Monika Stuhl

Nur ein Augenblick

Joerg Burger

Order in Chaos – Chaos in Order

Pavel Cuzuioc

Paraísos

Clara Trischler

Read My Breasts

Anja Salomonowitz

Rösl’s Suitcase

Elizabeth Lennard

Stories From the Sea

Jola Wieczorek

Tagebuch eines Optimisten

Rainer Frimmel

Tizza Covi

Die Tagträume des Nikolaus Habjan

Johannes Hammel

Vor dem Verschwinden/Izginjanje

Andrina Mračnikar

Zusammenleben

Thomas Fürhapter

Zwischennutzung

Dariusz Kowalski

Left to Die

sebastian j. f.


documentary

in production

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Alterlaa – 27 Storeys

Bianca Gleissinger

Austria/Germany

German

HD 16:9

Dolby Stereo

approx. 90 min

Concept

Bianca Gleissinger

Camera

Klemens Koscher

Editor

Kai Eiermann

My return to utopia. Alterlaa is a sentimental film with

a regional background: A look behind the scenes of

the mystified microcosm in the ambitious Alterlaa

housing project in Vienna, an object of controversy for

40 years. What’s the truth behind it all? Is it a success

story, or has it driven people around the bend? We can

only shrug our shoulders since we know both are true.

Bianca Gleissinger *1990 Vienna Austria

Producer

Ralph Wieser

Production

Mischief Films (AT)

Egoli Tossell Film (DE)

Completion 2021

Contact

Mischief Films

80__ 81

Documentary in Production


Auf der Suche nach der gestohlenen Zeit

Konrad Wakolbinger

Austria

German

2K 1:1.85

stereo

approx. 90 min

Concept

Konrad Wakolbinger

Camera

Martin Putz

Producers

Oliver Neumann

Sabine Moser

Production

FreibeuterFilm

In Search of the Stolen Time: How have our modern

concepts of working hours and temporality developed

in mutual interaction since the Middle Ages? The

idea that “time is money” is both ever-present and

unquestioned. The film discusses how and why this

formula has become so powerful, and what it does to

us as individuals and as a society.

Konrad Wakolbinger *1969 Wegscheid Germany

Films (selection) Wir sind die Mutanten (2013 d)

Completion 2021

Contact

FreibeuterFilm


Aus der Wunderwelt

Alice Durst, Christian Neubacher

Austria

German/English

(Eng sub)

HD

Dolby Stereo

approx. 105 min

Realisation

Alice Durst

Christian Neubacher

Completion 2021

Contact

Christian Neubacher

Two filmmakers follow the footsteps of a journey: a film

about a trip into the past. In 1827 a giraffe was captured

in Nubia and shipped to Venice via Cairo. From there it

made its way to Vienna on foot, setting off an outright

giraffe-mania in the Imperial capital. Out of a Wondrous

World: Historical paintings, letters and newspaper

articles guide the filmmakers along their way, the film

emulating illusion-producing technologies of times past

– a game and a dance with the times ensue.

Alice Durst *1973 Vienna Austria

Films (selection) Fluchtschicht (2012 a-g) Arena (2008 a-g)

autoconstruction city (co-director 2006 a-g)

Christian Neubacher *1972 Salzburg Austria

Films (selection) Optical Sound (co-director 2014 a-g) East Man

(2009 a-g) Muß ma immer lachen (2002 short d)

82__ 83

Documentary in Production


Before I Die

Juri Rechinsky

Austria

Ukrainian (Eng sub)

2K Digital

Dolby Stereo

approx. 90 min

Concept/Editor

Juri Rechinsky

Camera

Angelika Spangel

Producers

Florian Brüning

Thomas Herberth

Production

Horse&Fruits

Filmproduktion

Completion 2021

On fathers and sons: a road movie about 40-yearold

Grisha, who takes his 80-year-old father, Ivan,

who never was abroad, on a car trip from Krivoy Rog,

Ukraine, through Central Europe, in search for the

grave of Ivan’s father. Grisha recently found out that his

grandfather, counted as missing in combat since Ivan

was one year old, died in a Nazi labour camp in territory

of today’s France in 1944, together with 22,000 other

Ukrainian prisoners of war. Before I Die deals with the

difficulties of overcoming the fear of your parents dying

and how to make peace with them.

Juri Rechinsky *1986 Turkmenistan

Films (selection) Ugly (2017 f) Sickfuckpeople (2013 d)

Why so Happy (2012 short d)

Contact

Horse&Fruits

Filmproduktion


Carla Lonzi – Ein Porträt zweiter Ordnung

Constanze Ruhm

Austria

German/Italian/French

(Eng sub)

4K 1:1.85

color/b&w

Dolby Stereo

approx. 100 min

Concept

Constanze Ruhm

Key Cast

Gemma Vannuzzi

Judith van der Werff

Josefin Platt

Camera Hannes Böck

Editors Hannes Böck

Constanze Ruhm

This film – A Second-Order Portrait – is part of a

planned series dedicated to the history and present of

feminism(s). It focuses on Italian author and feminist

Carla Lonzi and on her role as one of the leaders of the

Italian feminist revolt in the 1970ies and 1980ies. At

the core of its narrative resides an unfinished project

of Lonzi which was interrupted by her untimely death

in 1982, and which the film wants to revisit in order to

complete it in a speculative manner.

Constanze Ruhm *1965 Vienna Austria

Films (selection) Gli appunti di Anna Azzori (2019 d)

Panoramis Paramount Paranormal –

Three Times a Film (co-director 2017 a-g)

Crash Site/My_Never_Ending_Burial_Plot (2010 f)

Producers

Constanze Ruhm

Anže Peršin

Production

Stenar Projects (PT)

Completion 2022

Contact

Constanze Ruhm

84__ 85

Documentary in Production


Dariush

Luise Müller

Austria

German (Eng sub)

HD 1:1.85

stereo

approx. 85 min

Concept

Luise Müller

Maria Lisa Pichler

Camera

Lukas Schöffel

Editors

Daniel Fill

Maria Lisa Pichler

Dariush is a 40 year old member of an inland ship’s

crew at the port of Hamburg. His daily life consists

in a full time job, a long term relationship and Punk

concerts on weekends. Dariush is currently awaiting

criminal charges. He is the subject of an ongoing investigation

in Italy concerning the “facilitating of illegal

immigration.” During 2016 and 2017 he worked on rescue

ships. He is facing 20 years imprisonment. The film

accompanies Dariush for a year.

Luise Müller *1989 Frankfurt/Main Germany

Films (selection) Staub (2017 short d)

Producers

Maria Lisa Pichler

Catrin Freundlinger

Completion 2021

Contact

Maria Lisa Pichler


Dreaming Dogs and Barking Men

Elsa Kremser, Levin Peter

Austria

Russian (Ger/Eng sub)

2K CinemaScope 1:2.35

Dolby Digital 5.1

approx. 75 min

Concept/Editors

Elsa Kremser

Levin Peter

Camera

Yunus Roy Imer

Producers

Elsa Kremser

Levin Peter

Production

RAUMZEITFILM

Produktion

Three stray dogs, four tramps and a limousine with out

wheels – in the midst of a run-down industrial landscape,

not far from the center of Moscow. A “pack of

strays” – dogs and men, living off whatever they can

find and what has been left behind in seemingly idyllic

circumstances. Yet, a building is rising unpre ventably

in the background, and soon it threatens to engulf the

“forgotten garden” where the group is living.

Elsa Kremser *1985 Wolfsberg Austria

Films (selection) Space Dogs (co-director 2019 d)

Mr & Mrs N (2014 short d)

Levin Peter *1985 Jena Germany

Films (selection) Space Dogs (co-director 2019 d)

Beyond the Snowstorm (2016 d) Sonor (2010 short d)

Completion 2021

Contact

RAUMZEITFILM

Produktion

86__ 87

Documentary in Production


Endphase

Hans Hochstöger

Austria

German/Hebraic/

Hungarian/English

(Ger/Eng Sub)

4K 1:1.85

Dolby Stereo

approx. 85 min

Concept

Hans Hochstöger

Camera

Richard Bayerl

Editor

Christin Veith

Completion 2021

Contact

Hans Hochstöger

On the night of May 2, 1945, five days before the end

of World War II, 228 Hungarian Jews were murdered

in the small Lower Austrian community of Hofamt

Priel by perpetrators unnamed to this day. Witnesses

recognized local helpers, but the murderers were never

found, nor was there a trial. The massacre is one of

the last so-called “Endphase Crimes,” and maybe the

last that we know so little about. Everyone – survivors,

relatives of the victims, but also the families of the

perpetrators and local witnesses – have to deal with a

terrible memory and have been silent about the events

for more than 75 years.

Hans Hochstöger *1982 Melk Austria


Eva-Maria Lukas Ladner

Austria

German (Eng sub)

2K 1:1.85

stereo

approx. 80 min

Concept/Camera

Lukas Ladner

Gregor Perle

Editor

Lisa Zoe Geretschläger

Producers

Arash T. Riahi

Peter Drössler

Sabine Gruber

Daniel Dlouhy

Lukas Ladner

Production

Golden Girls

Filmproduktion

Bunny Beach Films

Due to childhood polio, Eva-Maria has been sitting in

a wheel chair for as long as she can remember. Her

whole life she has been fighting an uphill battle to be

accepted as a full-fledged member of society. Today,

having reached the end of her 30ies, she dares to take a

courageous step: She has decided to become a mother.

Chronicled by one of her assistants, this film provides

unusually intimate insight into living outside the norms

of conventional family planning.

Lukas Ladner *1991 Innsbruck Austria

Films (selection) Like Sun in an Empty Room (2018 short f)

Treibgut (2017 short f)

Ritter ohne Fehl und Adel (2014 short d)

Completion 2021

Contact

Golden Girls

Filmproduktion

88__ 89

Documentary in Production


it works 20 Fridolin Schönwiese

Austria

German (Eng sub)

HD 16:9

Dolby Stereo

approx. 90 min

Concept

Fridolin Schönwiese

Camera

Joerg Burger

Johannes Hammel

Editor

Karina Ressler

Sound Design

Michael Palm

Producer

Fridolin Schönwiese

The short film it works released in 1998 documented

four handicapped children as they went about their

everyday work routines. 20 years later, these children

have grown into wonderful 30-year-old men and

women who now stand in the prime of their lives. This

film finds a personal and filmic intimacy much like its

precursor, while questioning how socially normative

concepts determine who is or is not considered

handicapped nowadays.

Fridolin Schönwiese *1967 Vienna Austria

Films (selection) Kopie aus dem Bundesarchiv (2015 a-g)

The Five Cardinal Points (2011 d)

Volver la Vista – The Gaze Back (2006 d)

Completion 2021

Contact

Fridolin Schönwiese


Just Be There Caspar Pfaundler

Austria

French/German/English

DCP 2K 1:1.85

Dolby Digital

approx. 105 min

Realisation

Caspar Pfaundler

Completion 2021

Contact

Caspar Pfaundler

Just Be There, the first part of the “dance rehearsal

documentary film-project” takes place in the Vienna

State Opera: Manuel Legris, the director of the Vienna

State Ballet is the dancer in a new choreography of

Patrick de Bana with Nina Polakova, a first soloist

of the company. The focus lies on the creative

process between the choreographer and the dancers.

Sometimes philosophical, sometimes a confrontation

with practical problems of movements – rehearsals

are always a breathtaking work. The film ends with the

last rehearsal on stage for the Nurejew Gala 2019. No

interviews, no commentary and probably no subtitles –

the body language says enough.

Caspar Pfaundler *1959 Innsbruck Austria

Films (selection) Die Melancholie der Millionäre (2018 d)

Gehen am Strand (2013 f) Schottentor (2009 f)

90__ 91

Documentary in Production


Krai Aleksey Lapin

Austria

Russian/Italian/German

(Ger/Eng Sub)

DCP 2K 1:1.37

b&w

Dolby Digital

approx. 120 min

Concept

Aleksey Lapin

Camera

Adrian Campean

Producers

Florian Brüning

Thomas Herberth

Production

Horse&Fruits

Filmproduktion

Completion 2021

A filmmaker is shooting a fictional film with his team

in the village of his forefathers near the Russian-

Ukrainian border. He attempts to make a movie

that is “fresh and clean-cut in terms of methods and

aesthetic tricks,” however he encounters hurdles

in the real world, influencing the lives of the village

people, and the truth becomes mingled with lies. As

a consequence, the author has to disappear from

the artwork. A new fiction begins, where causality

and predictability are exclusive cases. Legends are

legitimized and fictional film becomes documentary.

The village has transformed itself into a stage.

Aleksey Lapin *1988 Tomsk Russia

Films (selection) 100 Euro (2018 short f)

Geschichte 2000 (co-director 2017 short f)

Rhythmus 59 (co-director 2016 short f)

Contact

Horse&Fruits

Filmproduktion


Kurt Kren Martina Kudláček

Austria

German/English

HD

approx. 100 min

Concept

Martina Kudláček

Camera

Johannes Hammel

Wolfgang Lehner

Editor

Henry Hills

Completion 2021

The film explores the biography, myths, world view and

art work of Austrian artist Kurt Kren (1929–1998), a

major figure in avant-garde film from the 1950ies until

his death, beloved of the generations that followed him

both for his accomplishments and his sensibility, whose

work sharply resonates in many of the most radical art

move ments of the late 20 th century, from Actionism to

Punk.

Martina Kudláček *1965 Vienna Austria

Films (selection) Fragments of Kubelka (2012 d) Notes on

Marie Menken (2006 d) In the Mirror of Maya Deren (2001 d)

Contact

Martina Kudláček

92__ 93

Documentary in Production


Left to Die sebastian j. f.

Austria

English

4K 1:1.85

Dolby Stereo

approx. 90 min

Concept

Fate

Camera

Lukas Gnaiger

Editor

s&a

Producer

sebastian j. f.

Production

Cronos Film

Left to Die is the story of 72 African refugees adrift in

a dinghy in the Mediterranean Sea, without food or

water, for 14 days. They are on their way from Libya to

Lampedusa when they run out of fuel. A military helicopter,

a NATO warship and several fishing boats spot

the vessel drifting helplessly in the sea but abandon

the men in the dinghy to their fate. When the boat is

washed ashore on the Libyan coast two weeks later,

only nine of the 72 passengers on board are still alive.

sebastian j. f. *1969 Austria

Films (selection) War on Terror (2011 d)

The War on Drugs (2007 d) info wars (2004 d)

Completion 2021

Contact

Cronos Film


The Life of Sean DeLear Markus Zizenbacher

Austria

English/German

(Eng sub)

DV 16:9

color/b&w

Dolby Stereo

approx. 90 min

Concept/Producer

Markus Zizenbacher

Camera

Kurdwin Ayub

Aleksey Lapin

Editor

Sebastian Schreiner

Completion 2021

This film aims to preserve the legacy of the fabulous

Sean DeLear, cross-dressing punk singer and party

maven, through time and space. He is living art and

acted out a variety of art forms from music and fashion

to film and theater. Before he died in September

2017, all of his belongings – photos, videos, dresses

– were sent from his hometown L. A. to Vienna. It’s

an inspiring collection of flashbacks through time

and provides insight into this exceptional personality,

who was a cultural boundary-breaker, transcending

sexuality, race, age, genres, scenes … everything.

Markus Zizenbacher *1986 Oberpullendorf Austria

Films (selection) Deep Work (2019 short f) Geschichte 2000

(co-director 2017 short f) Rhythmus 59 (co-director 2016 f)

Contact

Markus Zizenbacher

94__ 95

Documentary in Production


Mirrors Alireza Ghanie

Austria

Farsi/multiple

languages

(Ger/Eng sub)

HD 16:9

Dolby Digital

approx. 85 min

Concept/Editor

Alireza Ghanie

Camera

Kave Shahlou

Alireza Ghanie

Producer

Alireza Ghanie

How does the theater of life go on when a renowned

actor and theater director in an Islamic country resolves

to acknowledge her transsexuality, regardless of any

social implications, and decides to undergo sex change

surgery to become a man? The film accompanies the

protagonist’s extraordinary life circumstances, his selfconfident

fight against discrimination as well as his

positive creative spirit and power to make a new life for

himself according to his own design.

Alireza Ghanie *1959 Tehran Iran

Films (selection) Networking (2014 short d)

Lessons From Bam (2005 short d) Windspiel (2002 f)

Completion 2021

Contact

Alireza Ghanie


My Room Monika Stuhl

Austria

German/Italian

(Ger sub)

HD 16:9

Dolby Stereo

approx. 90 min

Concept/Editor

Monika Stuhl

Camera

Joerg Burger

Producer

Monika Stuhl

Completion 2021

Contact

Monika Stuhl

Nothing exceptional to report. The starting point for

one is the ultimate achievement for the other. Lorenzo,

Matteo, Barbara, Dagmara and Carla live in Perugia. They

either suffer from a mental handicap or a psycho logical

disturbance. They live in a settlement called Prisma,

together with people whose normalcy is calculated to

be contagious. Behavioural disturbances such as anorexia

and self-mutilisation permanently improve in this

environment. But the “normal” people also experience

changes.

Monika Stuhl *1964 Vienna Austria

Films (selection) Nicht fern. Nicht nah. (1995 short d) Wohin

verschwindet das Meer bei Ebbe? (1992 short f) Mit an

Sicherheit grenzender Wahrscheinlichkeit (1990 short d)

96__ 97

Documentary in Production


Nur ein Augenblick Joerg Burger

Austria

German/English

(Ger sub)

HD 1:1.85

color/b&w

Dolby SR

approx. 80 min

Realisation

Joerg Burger

Production

Joerg Burger

Filmproduktion

Completion 2021

What is time? What is the essence of our times? What

happens to time after it has passed? To which extent

does our perception of time determine the decisions

we make in our daily lives? What is the relationship

between past, present and future? How long does a

moment take? The film A Moment in Time assumes the

form of an essay on the phenomenon of time and the

approach to its philosophical, existential and scientific

aspects.

Joerg Burger *1961 Vienna Austria

Films (selection) Elfie Semotan, Photographer (2019 d)

Un solo colore (2016 d) Focus on Infinity (2014 d)

Contact

Joerg Burger

Filmproduktion


Order in Chaos – Chaos in Order Pavel Cuzuioc

Austria

Russian (Eng sub)

DCP 2K 1:1.85

Dolby Digital 5.1

approx. 90 min

Realisation

Pavel Cuzuioc

Production

Pavel Cuzuioc

Filmproduktion

Completion 2021

A portrait film of a group of scientists who live and

work at the Special Astrophysical Observatory, located

in an isolated Russian village in the Caucasian Mountains.

Faced with the magnitude of the universe, the

protagonists seek meaning through science and philosophy,

in order to deal with the mundane realities of

their terrestrial existence. This film charts the intersection

of astrophysics and existentialism.

Pavel Cuzuioc *1978 Republic of Moldova

Films (selection) Bitte warten ... (2020 d)

Secondo Me (2016 d) Raisa (2015 short f)

Contact

Pavel Cuzuioc

Filmproduktion

98__ 99

Documentary in Production


Paraísos Clara Trischler

Austria/Germany

Spanish (Ger/Eng sub)

16:9 HD

stereo

approx. 90 min

Concept

Clara Trischler

Camera

Carolina Steinbrecher

Marie-Thérèse Zumtobel

Miriam Ortiz

Editor

Marielle Pohlmann

Producers

Thomas Herberth

Florian Brüning

Production

Horse&Fruits Vienna

(AT)/Munich (DE)

An indigenous Mexican village turns into a ghost town

as most of its inhabitants have migrated to the US:

How does it feel like to live on the other side of the

American Dream? The villagers of El Alberto develop

an unusual solution: They slip into the roles of border

guards and human traffickers to re-enact the traumatic

crossing for paying tourists who can thus experience

being a migrant for one night.

Clara Trischler *1986 Korneuburg Austria

Films (selection) Zuhause ist kein Ort (2016 short d)

Das erste Meer (2013 d) Wir haben keinen Himmel,

auf den wir warten sollten (2007 short f)

Completion 2021

Contact

Horse&Fruits

Filmproduktion


Read My Breasts Anja Salomonowitz

Austria

German/English

(Eng sub)

4K CinemaScope 1:2.39

stereo

approx. 90 min

Concept

Anja Salomonowitz

Camera

Martin Putz

Editor

Eleonora Camizzi

Producers

Arash T. Riahi

Peter Drössler

Sabine Gruber

Production

Golden Girls

Filmproduktion

Read My Breasts is a documentary film about the Ukrainian

activist Inna Shevchenko, famous founder of the

feminist group FEMEN. Her political actions changed

our world, yet her battle in the nude yielded contradictory

results – even leading to torture. And so it is that

this film is also about disappointment and trauma. Inna

has experienced much of our harsh world. But she does

not give up. A film about modern feminism.

Anja Salomonowitz *1976 Vienna Austria

Films (selection) Dieser Film ist ein Geschenk (2019 d)

Die 727 Tage ohne Karamo (2013 d) Spanien (2012 f)

Completion 2022

Contact

Golden Girls

Filmproduktion

100__ 101

Documentary in Production


Rösl’s Suitcase Elizabeth Lennard

Austria

German/English

2K+4K 1:1.85

color/b&w

5.1

approx. 80 min

Concept

Elizabeth Lennard

Producer

Peter Janecek

Production

PLAESION Film + Vision

Completion 2021

Truth and lies. Disconnected letters tell the broken

story of the effect the Nazi’s annexation of Austria had

on the Viennese. A young lady will be a linchpin in this

filmed investigation. Interwoven with home movies and

recordings of three generations of women – from 1938

thru my own coming of age in the Sixties and Seventies

– the film tells the story of my quest to find out what

really happened and unearth my father’s secrets.

Elizabeth Lennard *1953 New York USA

Films (selection) Talking House: Eileen Gray & Jean Badovici

(2016 short d) The Stein Family, the Making of Modern Art

(2011 short d) Tokyo Melody: A film about Ryuichi Sakamoto

(1985 short d)

Contact

PLAESION Film + Vision


Stories From the Sea

Jola Wieczorek

Austria

German/English/

Italian/Tagalog

(Ger/Eng sub)

3K 1:1.85

b&w

stereo

approx. 90 min

Concept

Jola Wieczorek

Camera

Serafin Spitzer

Editor

Rubén Rocha

The Mediterranean has always played a central role in

our world. It is crossed, made use of, enjoyed, feared

and loved every day, every night. Stories From the Sea

portrays people aboard three vessels who experience

the Mediterranean Sea as a place of longing, a place of

work, or a scene of human encounters. The all-encompassing

blue waters, unceasing waves and distant horizon

are elements that link the protagonists, regardless

of their motivation to go out to sea.

Jola Wieczorek *1983 Poznań Polen

Films (selection) O que resta (2015 short d)

List do Polski (2015 short d) Època Baixa (2013 short d)

Producer

Jola Wieczorek

Production

Fahrenheit Films

Completion 2021

Contact

Jola Wieczorek

102__ 103

Documentary in Production


Tagebuch eines Optimisten

Rainer Frimmel, Tizza Covi

Austria

German/English

HD 16:9

stereo

approx. 80 min

Concept/Camera

Rainer Frimmel

Editors

Tizza Covi

Rainer Frimmel

Producer

Rainer Frimmel

Production

Vento Film

Emile Zuckerkandl (1922–2013) was the only

grandson of the famous Austrian journalist, Berta

Zuckerkandl. After years fleeing from the Nazi

regime, he managed to build a major scientific

career in the US. The memories of the 90-yearold

paint a vivid picture of 20 th -century history

with all its highs and lows. An Optimist’s Diary.

Rainer Frimmel *1971 Vienna Austria

Tizza Covi *1971 Bolzano Italy

Films (selection) Mister Universo (2016 f)

The Shine of Day (2012 f) La Pivellina (2009 f)

Completion 2021

Contact

Vento Film


Die Tagträume des Nikolaus Habjan

Johannes Hammel

Austria

German (Eng sub)

DCP

Dolby Digital 5.1

approx. 90 min

Concept/Camera

Johannes Hammel

Additional Camera

Reinhard Mayr

Jan Zischka

Johannes Gierlinger

Editor

Sophie Reiter

Producer

Johannes Hammel

Production

hammelfilm

The Daydreams of Nikolaus Habjan is a long-term

project. Over the next two years, director Johannes

Hammel will have the opportunity of accompanying

artist extraordinaire, Nikolaus Habjan. This film

is intended to give close- up views of the artist’s

diverse fields of work, as well as an encompassing

overview of his creative œuvre to the present,

including puppetry, theater and opera directing,

and whistling – the vast professional spectrum of

the 33-year old artist, who seems to be at home

in almost all genres of the theater and opera.

Johannes Hammel *1963 Basel Switzerland

Films (selection) Buildings (2015 a-g)

Jour sombre (2011 a-g) Folge mir (2010 f)

Completion 2021

Contact

hammelfilm

104__ 105

Documentary in Production


Vor dem Verschwinden/Izginjanje

Andrina Mračnikar

Austria/Slovenia

German/Slovene

(Eng Sub)

4K 1:1.85

Dolby SR

approx. 110 min

Concept

Andrina Mračnikar

Camera

Judith Benedikt

Editor

Gerhard Daurer

Vor dem Verschwinden/Izginjanje (Before Dissapearing)

is an essayistic documentary about the continuous

disappearance of the Carinthian Slovene ethnic group

in the southernmost province of Austria. A film about

language and identity and the question of resistance or

adaptation.

Andrina Mračnikar *1981 Hallein Austria

Films (selection) Ma Folie (2015 f) With Death as the Only

Certain Fate (2007 d) Andri 1924–1944 (2004 short d)

Producers

Jürgen Karasek

Danijel Hočevar

Production

Soleil Film (AT)

Vertigo Film (SI)

Completion 2021

Contact

Soleil Film


Zusammenleben Thomas Fürhapter

Austria

German/English/

multiple languages

(Ger sub)

HD 16:9

Dolby Stereo

approx. 90 min

Concept

Thomas Fürhapter

Camera

Judith Benedikt

Thomas Fürhapter

Editor

Dieter Pichler

How is Vienna’s culture mediated to migrants? The

documentary feature entitled Living Together follows

new migrants from different countries, beginning

with their first step into a new country. What

expectations do migrants have of Vienna? What

information and values are communicated to them in

the “integration courses” and what are not?

Thomas Fürhapter *1971 Vienna Austria

Films (selection) Die dritte Option (2017 d)

Michael Berger. Eine Hysterie (2010 d) Planes (2006 a-g)

Producer

Ralph Wieser

Production

Mischief Films

Completion 2021

Contact

Mischief Films

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Documentary in Production


Zwischennutzung Dariusz Kowalski

Austria

German (Eng Sub)

2K CinemaScope 1:2.35

Dolby Stereo

approx. 90 min

Concept

Dariusz Kowalski

Camera

Martin Putz

Editor

Dieter Pichler

Producer

Dariusz Kowalski

The documentary film Zwischennutzung centers on a

building that once housed the “Spitzauer-Weiser” meat

factory in Simmering, Vienna’s eleventh district. Here

the factory serves as a collective setting and narrative

hinge connecting protagonists and their fields of work.

This filmic essay depicts the image of a site in the flux

of temporary use and in the process of disappearing.

A critical light is shed on economic mechanisms of

eviction in urban spaces.

Dariusz Kowalski *1971 Krakow Poland

Films (selection) Seeing Voices (2016 d) Richtung Nowa Huta

(2012 doc) Optical Vacuum (2008 a-g, d)

Completion 2021

Contact

Dariusz Kowalski


News From Home. News to Home.

Borjana Ventzislavova

Was soll man machen – Vor Entzücken?

Astrid Johanna Ofner


avant-garde

in production

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News From Home. News to Home.

Borjana Ventzislavova

Austria

English (Ger sub)

HD 16:9

stereo

approx. 85 min

Realisation

Borjana Ventzislavova

Completion

2021

Contact

Borjana Ventzislavova

News From Home. News to Home. pays homage to

Chantal Akerman’s documentary film News from home.

Akerman made her film at the age of 26, showing

scenes of New York filmed in 1976 while reading her

mother’s letters aloud. Inspired by this film, 43 years

later I would like to present a different New York

and a different mother-daughter relationship. The

physical and mental distance allows for a film about

change, love and alienation – a document about a

piece of zeitgeist made from a different perspective.

Borjana Ventzislavova *1976 Sofia Bulgaria

Films (selection) Real Games (2020 a-g) Migration Standards

(2011 short d) It Isn’t Healthy (2013 a-g)

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Avant-Garde in Production


Was soll man machen – Vor Entzücken?

Astrid Johanna Ofner

Austria

German (Eng sub)

S-8 mm/HD 16:9

mono

approx. 75 min

Screenplay

Astrid Johanna Ofner

Key Cast

Sylvie Rohrer

Realisation

Astrid Johanna Ofner

Producer

Astrid Johanna Ofner

Production

The Raven Films

A poetic film essay about a woman and a room. The

woman is Rosa Luxemburg, in her prison cell during

the First World War. She writes letters comforting her

friend Sophie Liebknecht whose husband is likewise

under arrest. At the same time, Luxemburg smuggles

slips of paper out of prison, aiming to establish

Germany’s first Communist Party. What Should One Do

– In Light of Rapture?

Astrid Johanna Ofner *1968 Linz Austria

Films (selection) Die Strände (2019 a-g) Abschied von

den Eltern (2018 a-g) Tell Me on Tuesday (2007 a-g)

Completion

2022

Contact

The Raven Films


Das andere Ende der Straße

Kálmán Nagy

Atlantis

Dominik Brauweiler

Dear Darkness

Antoinette Zwirchmayr

Fireworks

Sebastian Schmidl

Die guten Plätze

Florian Kogler

Ingo und Maja

Jan Prazak

Mein Satz

Amina Handke

Reisen

Maximilian Fürst

Rosa im Schloss

Wolf-Maximilian Liebich

Ruletista!

Lukas Valenta Rinner

Tauchen

Dominik Galleya Tendl

Clemens Niel

Was man empfindet, ist Angst

Rebecca Hirneise

Where Is Ida?

Petra Zöpnek


fiction short

in production

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Fiction Short in Production


Das andere Ende der Straße

Kálmán Nagy

Atlantis

Dominik Brauweiler

When 9-year-old Ábel is attacked by a

classmate, Ábel’s father decides to visit the

boy’s parents to put an end to the constant

harassment. The conversation does not go

as hoped and confronts father and son with

a moral dilemma.

Kálmán Nagy *1992 Veszprém Hungary

Films (selection) Olyan Dolgok – Such Things

(2020 short f) Elias (2018 short f)

Wandertrieb (2017 short d)

Austria/Hungary

Hungarian (Ger/Eng sub)

2K 1:1.85

Dolby SR

approx. 25 min

Screenplay Kálmán Nagy

Camera Manuel Prett

Editor Lea Sorgo

Producer Alisa Frischholz

Completion 2021

Contact Kálmán Nagy

Lene and Timo have retreated to a house at

the seaside. Here it feels like they are the

only two people in the world. But something

unspoken is clouding their time together.

They are there for one another, but they are

also equally distant from one another, while

connected by the hope that far away from

everything else life could be easy forever.

At a hidden cove, Lene and Timo ultimately

find the courage to disappear entirely.

Dominik Brauweiler *1981 Bonn Germany

Films (selection) Vagabond (2020 short f)

Austria

German (Eng sub)

RAW 2K CinemaScope 1:2.35

Dolby SR

approx. 25 min

Screenplay Dominik Brauweiler

Andreas Schiessler

Key Cast Thomas Schubert

Anna Suk

Camera Andreas Habermaier

Editor László Váncsa

Producer Dominik Brauweiler

Completion 2021

Contact Dominik Brauweiler


Dear Darkness

Antoinette Zwirchmayr

Fireworks

Sebastian Schmidl

White, grey, and black rooms of a shared

past and divided present; dreams and fantasies

surrounding one’s own life, and the

lives of the others: Three women who were

once best friends meet after twenty years

and dismantle the facades of their existential

constructs layer by layer. But ultimately,

they part ways before their lives fall apart.

Antoinette Zwirchmayr *1989 Oberndorf Austria

Films (selection) Ocenao Mare (2020 a-g)

The Shadow of Utopia (2018 a-g)

The Pimp and His Trophies (2014 d)

Austria

German

16 mm 1:1.37

approx. 29 min

Screenplay Angelika Reitzer

Antoinette Zwirchmayr

Key Cast Susanne Wuest

Veronika Glatzner, Teresa Rotschopf

Camera Leena Koppe

Editor Lisa Truttmann

Producers Klara Pollak

Antoinette Zwirchmayr

Production AZ Productions

Following an act of violence, two sisters

team up to take revenge on the person

who seems to be the culprit, while they find

themselves being pulled deeper and deeper

into the darkest areas of their minds.

Sebastian Schmidl *1986 Vienna Austria

Films (selection) Unsquare (2019- short f)

Liebling (2015 short f)

Brigitte-Brigitte (2011 short f)

Austria

German (Eng sub)

DCP CinemaScope 1:2.39

Surround 5.1

approx. 30 min

Screenplay Sebastian Schmidl

Key Cast Anna Suk

Camera Victoria Herbig

Producers Victoria Herbig

Sebastian Schmidl

Completion 2021

Contact Sebastian Schmidl

Completion 2021

Contact Antoinette Zwirchmayr

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Fiction Short in Production


Die guten Plätze

Florian Kogler

Ingo und Maja

Jan Prazak

Markus is a sound engineer at a small theater

in Carinthia. He has moved into his

aunt’s holiday cottage in order to write a

play. With exacting powers of observation

and linguistic prowess, he creates a revealing

drama involving the people around him.

Markus’ friends find him in a disheveled

and unkempt state, which seriously worries

them. As they recognize the parallels

between themselves and the characters in

Markus’ play, they begin ruthlessly taking

account.

Florian Kogler *1989 Graz Austria

Films (selection) Night (2019 short f) The Book of

Sabeth (2019 short d) Correction (2014 short f)

Austria

German (Eng sub)

2K 1:1.85

Dolby Stereo

approx. 30 min

Screenplay Florian Kogler

Key Cast Tom Feichtinger

Irina Sulaver, Merlin Sandmeyer

Camera Andi Widmer

Editor Nooran Talebi

Producers Shirin Hooshmandi, Florian Kogler

Marius Mertens, Nooran Talebi, Andi Widmer

60-year-old Maja moves into a shared flat

with others. In the flat, she becomes acquainted

with her flat-mate Valentin, a student

in his late 20ies, who hasn’t yet learned

to make his own way in life. Initially skeptical,

they learn to appreciate each other, and

an unusual friendship comes into being.

Jan Prazak *1991 Vienna Austria

Films (selection) Another Life (2019 d)

Die Bewegung der Sterne (2018 short f)

Baumstämme im Schnee (2016 short f)

Austria

German

2K

Dolby SR

approx. 30 min

Screenplay Jan Prazak

Key Cast Ingo Geiger

Claudia Martini

Camera Johannes Höß

Editor Barbara Seidler

Producer Flora Mair

Completion 2021

Contact Jan Prazak

Completion 2021

Contact Florian Kogler


Mein Satz

Amina Handke

Reisen

Maximilian Fürst

Out of the blue, 77- year-old “I” loses her

language. She reacts with different strategies

of assimilation or resistance to

attempts to make her function or to tranquilize

her. It becomes evident that she, just

like the world around her, is caught in language

regulations and commonplaces. Accordingly

vague and ambiguous is the rea lity

around “I”: Could everything be staged?

Amina Handke *1969 Berlin Germany

Films (selection) Children’s Film (2020 short d)

Wishing Cast (2016 a-g)

Mother of Mother (2015 a-g)

Austria

German (Eng sub)

2K

Dolby Stereo

approx. 60 min

Screenplay Amina Handke

(based on Kaspar by Peter Handke)

Key Cast Libgart Schwarz

Caroline Peters, Helga Illich

Camera Marianne A. Borowiec

Editor Amina Handke

Producers Amina Handke

Nora Friedel

Production Familiendrama

Completion 2021

Travels depicts a day in the life of four

people whose paths have or will cross. In

fragments, we observe the protagonists,

as they attempt to give their lives new

direction. The four short episodes show

how we all experiment in our own ways

with relationships, livelihoods, our emotions

as well as those of others, actions and

reactions and how these decisions create

and influence our behavior and social fabric.

Maximilian Fürst *1988 Lustenau Austria

Films (selection) Entschuldigung (2017 short f)

Drama (2016 short f) Lebenslauf (2014 short f)

Austria

German (Eng sub)

2K 1:1.85

Dolby Stereo

approx. 30 min

Screenplay Maximilian Fürst

Key Cast Sandra Lipp

Werner Brix, Claudia Martini

Camera Sophia Wiegele

Editor Philipp Mayer

Producer Claudia Joldes

Completion 2021

Contact Maximilian Fürst

Contact Amina Handke

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Fiction Short in Production


Rosa im Schloss

Wolf-Maximilian Liebich

Ruletista!

Lukas Valenta Rinner

Rosa is a young student who returns home

from abroad in the wake of her parents’

suicide. Wandering the silent halls of the

castle, she searches for a way to adjust and

how to deal with the legacy of her parents.

The longer she lingers here, the more the

castle comes to life and mirrors her fears.

Everyday matters present difficult hurdles,

until she finally realizes she must leave in

order to move on.

Wolf-Maximilian Liebich

*1984 St. Veit/Glan Austria

Films (selection) Die Unvollendeten

(2019 short d) #schulausflug (2016 short d)

Das Labyrinth unter der Sonne (2012 short f)

Austria

German (Eng sub)

Dolby Digital

approx. 30 min

Screenplay Wolf-Maximilian Liebich

Key Cast Jessyca Hauser

Camera Laura Ettel

Editor Lucia Johow

Producer Ivet Castelo

Completion 2021

Contact Wolf-Maximilian Liebich

Housing park Alterlaa: the suburban habitat

of a social utopia, which is slowly disappearing.

Günter, the eternal loser, survives, since

he has even managed to mess up his bid to

end his own life here. In his darkest hour

comes a moment of enlightenment. A game

against the mortality of life: Ruletista!

Lukas Valenta Rinner *1985 Salzburg Austria

Films (selection) Die Liebhaberin (2016 f)

Parabellum (2015 f)

Brief an Fukuyama (2010 short f)

Austria

German (Eng sub)

S-16 mm/DCP 1:1.85

stereo

approx. 20 min

Screenplay

Lukas Valenta Rinner

Producer

Lukas Valenta Rinner

Production

Nabis Filmgroup

Completion 2021

Contact

Nabis Filmgroup


Tauchen

Dominik Galleya Tendl

Clemens Niel

Dive: Elias is searching for a way to belong

in a male dominated environment of young

gangs, his father’s youthful friends, and

German rap music. But just how far will he

go to realize his longing?

Dominik Galleya Tendl *1989 Brixlegg Austria

Clemens Niel *1991 Graz Austria

Films (selection) Oben Bleiben (2019 short f)

Austria

German (Eng sub)

2K 1:1.66

Dolby SR

approx. 16 min

Screenplay Dominik Galleya Tendl

Clemens Niel

Key Cast Elijahs Neuwirth

Camera Clemens Niel

Editor Joachim Iseni

Producers Shari Ehlers

Manuel Defregger

Completion 2021

Contact Dominik Galleya Tendl

Clemens Niel

Was man empfindet, ist

Angst Rebecca Hirneise

The film presents an episode from Hanna’s

life. She is in a relationship with a man who

suffers from intense compulsive disorders.

The short story of What You Feel Is Fear

in tends to convey how psychological disabilities

impact family. A special feature of

the film’s production strategy lies in the fact

that the actors do not receive a copy of the

screenplay. However, the written script does

include a basic story, narrative density and

tempo which the film endeavors to sustain.

Rebecca Hirneise *1984 Mühlacker Germany

Films (selection) Alltag (2018 short f) Huone 4.11B

(2014 short f) Alter Flugplatz (2013 short d)

Austria

German (Eng sub)

2K

Dolby 5.1

approx. 20 min

Screenplay Rebecca Hirneise

Key Cast Elsa Mourlam

Camera Sophia Wiegele

Editor Florian Kecht

Production

Caroline Liebhart

Completion 2021

Contact

Rebecca Hirneise

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Fiction Short in Production


Where Is Ida?

Petra Zöpnek

Ida Pfeiffer (1797–1858) was a globetrotter,

an adventuress, a travel writer, and a

collector of natural produce. She journeyed

240,000 kilometers by sea and 32,000

kilometers across 4 continents. The 13 books

she wrote about her travels were translated

into 7 languages. Who today has ever heard

of this Biedermeier lady from Vienna’s

seventh district? Back in the day she was a

famous celebrity and a role model for many

women. This film reveals her path.

Petra Zöpnek *1969 Vienna Austria

Films (selection) Where Is Lotte? (2020 a-g)

Mädchen in Rot und Gold (2006 a-g)

Austria

German (Eng sub)

DCP

b&w

Dolby 5.1

approx. 40 min

Key Cast Susanne Berger

Christian Pulker, Bernhard Bastien

Realisation Petra Zöpnek

Music GIL CHÉRI (= Gilbert Handler, Petra Zöpnek)

Sound Design Gilbert Handler

Completion 2021

Contact Petra Zöpnek


Augusts Orte

Valérie Pelet

Entlang der Körper

Antoinette Zwirchmayr

Europe, Can You See Me?

Katharina Simunic

Fify Ibrahim hört auf!

Fify Ibrahim hört auf?

Gabriele Mathes

Frauenfragmente: Gini und Resi

Sophie Gmeiner

HLS/Hasenleiten Stories

Lotte Schreiber

A Pile of Ghosts

Ella Raidel

Sanatorium Druzhba

Harald Hund

Those Next to Us

Bernhard Hetzenauer

Verwandlung

Simon Spitzer

Wind

Martin Putz


documentary short

in production

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Augusts Orte

Valérie Pelet

August’s Places is a film that follows escape

routes used by people and animals to places

along the Austrian border. It presents an interplay

between spoken text and film images,

with the off-screen narrator organizing and

drawing connections between research documents,

images and interviews, notations and

sounds. Her voice consciously adds a personal

note. She unifies local events and personal

memories in the dizzying heat of August.

Valérie Pelet *1981 Rum Austria

Austria

German

S-16 mm 2K scan

stereo

approx. 45 min

Concept/Camera

Valérie Pelet

Completion 2021

Contact Valérie Pelet

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Documentary Short in Production


Entlang der Körper

Antoinette Zwirchmayr

Europe, Can You See Me?

Katharina Simunic

“With the intensity of a dream, to pass

through what has been, in order to

experience the present as the waking world

to which the dream refers!”

(Walter Benjamin, Paris Arcades, 1927–1929)

Antoinette Zwirchmayr *1989 Oberndorf Austria

Films (selection) Am frostigen Atlas (2020 a-g)

Josef – My Father’s Criminal Record (2016 d)

The Pimp and His Trophies (2014 d)

Austria

German

16 mm 1:1.37

stereo

approx. 30 min

Concept

Antoinette Zwirchmayr

Camera Leena Koppe

Producers Klara Pollak

Antoinette Zwirchmayr

Production AZ Productions

Completion 2021

Contact

Antoinette Zwirchmayr

The closure of the so-called Balkan Route

has resulted in unthinkable suffering

over the years. Bosnia-Herzegovina

is a focal point of this humanitarian

catastrophe. Grave human rights abuses

are daily perpetrated there, both within

and outside EU borders. This documentary

film treats the precarious situation of

refugees from various perspectives while

re-contextualizing images of a state of

emergency far removed from main stream

media coverage.

Katharina Simunic

*1993 Waidhofen/Thaya Austria

Austria

German/English

2K 16:9

Dolby Stereo

approx. 40 min

Concept/Editor Katharina Simunic

Camera Jonathan Meiri

Voice Katharina Schöch

Completion 2021

Contact

Katharina Simunic


Fify Ibrahim hört auf!

Fify Ibrahim hört auf?

Gabriele Mathes

A documentary film about a small shop

expected to soon go bankrupt in a public

housing project on the western outskirts

of Vienna. Fify Ibrahim manages a grocery

store for “the little people,” the inhabitants

of the housing project. Why shouldn’t this

shop shut down like its two predecessors

that were located here? Do my neighbors

understand what they will be losing if Fify

Ibrahim really closes the store down?

Gabriele Mathes *1960 Wels Austria

Films (selection) Gefühl Dobermann

(2015 short f) Flaschenpost (2012 a-g, f)

Eine Million Kredit ist ganz normal,

sagt mein Großvater (2006 short d, a-g)

Austria

German

HD 1:1.85

approx. 30 min

Concept/Producer

Gabriele Mathes

Camera/Editor

Hermann Lewetz

Completion 2021

Contact

Gabriele Mathes

Frauenfragmente:

Gini und Resi

Sophie Gmeiner

After Resi (59) was able to lead her life largely

autonomously despite her mental disability,

she has been living in the local retirement

home in her hometown of Kössen, Tyrol for

a few years now. The unconventional Gini

(61) is Resi’s sister and guardian, but also her

closest ally from the family. Their indestructible

humor holds the two sisters together,

even though in Resi’s life there would have

been every reason to lose heart. In March

2020 Resi died of corona disease.

Sophie Gmeiner *1992 Kufstein Austria

Films (selection) Frauenfragmente: Galila

(2019 short d)

Austria

German (Eng sub)

2K 1:1.85

mixed media (16 mm+iPhone)

Dolby Stereo

approx.30 min

Concept/Editor Sophie Gmeiner

Camera Simon Dallaserra, Sophie Gmeiner

Producers Sophie Gmeiner

Simon Dallaserra, Nils Schröder

Production Schiefer Film (DE)

Completion 2021

Contact Sophie Gmeiner

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Documentary Short in Production


HLS/Hasenleiten Stories

Lotte Schreiber

A Pile of Ghosts

Ella Raidel

HSL/Hasenleiten Stories portrays a resi dential

housing settlement located on the

southeastern outskirts of Vienna, an area

known as Hasenleiten. Miniature plot lines

are developed with the assistance of children

and adolescents on site and interweave

with documentary observations of the

settle ment, which was constructed between

1937 and 1951. The filmic narrative continually

oscillates between the past and the

present while focusing on the children and

the supervisors of the local youth center.

Lotte Schreiber *1971 Mürzzuschlag Austria

Films (selection) Sabaudia (2018 a-g) Manchmal

also denkt man, weil es sich bewährt hat.

Wittgensteins Haus. (2016 a-g, short f)

Tlatelolco (2011 d)

Austria

German (Eng sub)

HD 16:9

Dolby SR

approx. 25 min

Concept/Editor/Producer

Lotte Schreiber

Camera Johannes Hammel

Laura Ettel

Completion 2021

A Chinese ghost town. The last hotel, which

has been condemned for demolition like the

rest of the town, is still standing. The owner

Charles imagines himself in the scene of a

Hollywood classic. The vexing interplay of

documentary and fiction, in which construction

workers, investors and real estate agents

appear, takes place in contemporary China,

where cities are built entirely on speculation,

dictated by the fictions of capitalism.

Ella Raidel *1970 Gmunden Austria

Films (selection) Double Happiness (2014 d)

Play Life (2012 a-g) Subverses, China in

Mozambique (2011 d)

Austria

Chinese (Eng/Ger sub)

HD 16:9

Dolby Stereo

approx. 65 min

Concept/Producer Ella Raidel

Key Cast Yakira Cang, Yang Ke

Camera Djordje Arambasic

Karel Picha, Vincent Zheng

Editor Daniel Hui

Completion 2021

Contact Ella Raidel

Contact Lotte Schreiber


Sanatorium Druzhba

Harald Hund

Those Next to Us

Bernhard Hetzenauer

Sanitorium Druzhba is a documentary that

uses a Soviet-era building as a starting point

to delve into the current situation in Crimea

after its annexation by Russia. The building

serves as a symbol alluding to the broken

relationship between Russia and Ukraine.

Its utopian modernist architectural style is

employed as a metaphor for a seemingly

utopian alliance between the two countries

nowadays. Occasionally generating an

assessment divergent from that of Western

media, the film examines the currently

defunct rapport between the two nations.

Harald Hund *1967 Grieskirchen Austria

Films (selection) Iranium (2017 short d) Apnoe

(2011 a-g) Mouse Palace (co-director 2010 a-g)

Austria

Russian (Eng sub)

HD 16:9

stereo

approx. 55 min

Realisation

Harald Hund

Completion 2021

Contact Harald Hund

In breathtaking words, Germán López Rosales

describes his experience of a human smuggling

operation from the Mexican-American border

to San Antonio, Texas. Locked up inside the

cargo area of a tractor-trailer, ten of the

39 migrants died due to heat and lack of water.

Cinematic images of vast, idyllic landscapes

shot in the border area of Tamaulipas/Texas

accompany Germán’s narration and create a

strong contrast to his intimate portrayals.

Bernhard Hetzenauer *1981 Innsbruck Austria

Films (selection) The Birthmark (co-director 2019

short d) La sombra de un dios (2017 short d) And

There Was Fire in the Center of the Earth (2013 d)

Austria/Germany/Mexico

Spanish (Eng/Ger sub)

S-16 mm DCP 1:1.85

Dolby SR

approx. 20 min

Concept Bernhard Hetzenauer

Camera Caroline Spreitzenbart

Editors Bernhard Hetzenauer

André Siegers

Production Bernhard Hetzenauer (AT)

Marko Mijatovic (DE)

Completion 2021

Contact Bernhard Hetzenauer

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Documentary Short in Production


Verwandlung

Simon Spitzer

Wind

Martin Putz

The essay film Metamorphosis gives us an

ambient impression of the nightlife in a city

disco. The guests provide the focus for

documen tary observations and the resulting

investi gation of a subculture, as well as the

exploration of a discotheque’s performative

stage. The film is mostly without spoken dialog

and has an ambient sound design, in part.

Simon Spitzer *1988 Vienna Austria

Films (selection) Federspiel: Morsen (co-director

2017 short f) Holz einräumen (2014 short f)

Die Leute von Stiege 5 (2012 short d)

Austria

No dialog

RAW 2.5K HD 1:1.85

Dolby Stereo

approx. 15 min

Concept/Producer Simon Spitzer

Camera Laura Ettel, Simon Spitzer

Editor Norbert Pfaffenbichler

Completion 2021

Contact Simon Spitzer

Wind itself is inaudible. All we hear is the

sound emanating from its encounter with

obstacles. Wind is invisible, what we see are

its effects, what we perceive we intimate.

The wind itself remains a phantom, like the

cinematic principle of picture and sound,

creating sensations in our minds. The story

of wind will be told through people who

encounter and work with this phantom element

in various ways. The film contrasts

their intentions and tells about the primordial

human effort to direct nature.

Martin Putz *1967 Vienna Austria

Austria

German/French/English

(Eng sub)

DCP 1:1.85

Dolby SR

approx. 30 min

Concept/Camera Martin Putz

Editor Petra Zöpnek

Producer Martin Putz

Production

Martin Putz Filmproduktion

Completion 2021

Contact

Martin Putz Filmproduktion


14/15

Albert Sackl

Der antifaschistische Zoo

Meinhard Rauchensteiner

Auf dem Grund

des Wäschekorbes

Adele Razkövi

Cargo Carriers

Conny Zenk

Erinnerungsrauschen

Eginhartz Kanter

EXT.

Laura Nasmyth

From Endlessness to Infinity

Karl-Heinz Klopf

Geschichten eines Jungen,

einer Frau und eines Soldaten

Franziska Pflaum

Heat

Peter Kutin

Florian Kindlinger

Interweaving

Krisztina Kerekes

Nachts im Bach

Gudrun Krebitz

Never Meant to Be Seen

Elke Groen

nichts

Timotheus Tomicek

One Year

Johann Lurf

Out of Sight

Eve Heller

PUR

Josephine Ahnelt

re-GEO/ristrutturare qualcosa

Michaela Schwentner

Straight vs. Curved

Johannes Schiehsl

Talszenen

Annja Krautgasser

Tehran Recyclers

Nikki Schuster

Train Again

Peter Tscherkassky

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Dextro.org

Videoletter

Karoline Riha


avant-garde short

in production

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14/15

Albert Sackl

14/15 is a 16 mm short that will be shot

in 52 locations over the period of a year.

Once a week, the camera will be set up for

the day using a special single-frame timelapse

mechanism. The constant oscillation

between two laterally displaced perspectives

will create a kind of three-dimensional

effect. This setting will be used for a range of

interactions between several protagonists.

Albert Sackl *1977 Graz Austria

Films (selection) Steifheit 1-3/7 (2018 a-g)

Im Freien (2011 a-g)

Vom Innen; von aussen (2006 a-g)

Austria

No dialog

35 mm/16 mm 1:1.37

approx. 30 min

Realisation

Albert Sackl

Completion 2021

Contact

Albert Sackl

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Avant-Garde Short in Production


Der antifaschistische Zoo

Meinhard Rauchensteiner

Auf dem Grund des

Wäschekorbes Adele Razkövi

After 1945, predominantly apolitical sculptures

were initially erected in Vienna’s public

housing projects– mainly animals. The film

shows 17 of these sculptures, combined

with monologs, dialogs, poems and songs. A

final montage sequence shows the “Children

of Vienna,” accompanied by André Heller’s

song of the same name, as kids climb around

on so-called play sculptures.

Meinhard Rauchensteiner *1970 Vienna Austria

Films (selection) Papa Roma (2020 a-g)

Mk. 10,25 (2018 a-g) Herbst (2016 a-g)

Austria

German

HD 1:1.85

approx. 15 min

Concept/Camera

Meinhard Rauchensteiner

Producer

Daniel Zimmermann

Production

dz-productions (CH)

Completion 2021

At the Bottom of the Laundry Basket shows

the state of the emotional dilemma that the

protagonist finds herself in, as an artist and

mother caught between domestic routines and

creative artistic processes. A comparison and

fusion of the structures, in which she finds

herself in daily life: the monotone repetition of

the same routines versus total concentration

on her current activity in the creative flow.

Adele Razkövi *1977 Vienna Austria

Films (selection) Croax (2012 a-g)

Looking for Love (2010 a-g) La Andaluza (2008 f)

Austria

No dialog

DV 16:9

Dolby Stereo

approx. 8 min

Realisation

Adele Razkövi

Completion 2021

Contact

Adele Razkövi

Contact

Meinhard Rauchensteiner


Cargo Carriers

Conny Zenk

Erinnerungsrauschen

Eginhartz Kanter

In the perfect picture of a dreamy landscape

and well-known architecture, noise fields

break through the idyllic surroundings. The

special soundscape of the island is created

by the prohibition of any kind of vehicle. For

the transport of all goods, “carrying guys,”

independent workers with special carts, are

employed. By means of experimental camera

work, field recording and contemporary

Chinese poetry, the tension between historical

world cultural heritage, tourism, work

and life is negotiated.

Conny Zenk *1985 Vienna Austria

Films (selection) selfieDreamer (2020 a-g)

reglos (co-director 2018 a-g)

Labadi Rising (2014 a-g)

Austria

German/Chinese

2K+4K 1:1.85

color/b&w

Dolby SR

approx. 15 min

Concept/Animation Conny Zenk

Camera Mr. Stone (cargo carrier)

Georg Hartl

Interview Bunny Tsai

Conny Zenk

Completion 2021

The Rush of Memory deals with personal

reminiscence and the associated topic

of false memories. The thematic starting

point for this experimental essay film is the

former GDR and the aftermath of this state.

Shot on expired 16 mm film, the coarsegrained

black-and-white images give rise to

an imagery in which various temporalities –

today and yesterday – seem to mix.

Eginhartz Kanter *1984 Leipzig Germany

Films (selection) noisescapes (2019 a-g) taking

away (2018 a-g) papermovements (2013 a-g)

Austria

German (Eng sub)

16 mm/DCP 1:1.37

b&w

stereo

approx. 30 min

Concept

Eginhartz Kanter

Editors

Eginhartz Kanter

Katharina Gruzei

Completion 2021

Contact

Eginhartz Kanter

Contact Conny Zenk

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Avant-Garde Short in Production


EXT.

Laura Nasmyth

From Endlessness to Infinity

Karl-Heinz Klopf

EXT. follows the experience of a figure

trying to draw a line between an imagined

reality and her actual reality – her attempt

to transcend a dark, fluid internal world by

projecting herself into various scenarios in

an imagined, material external world.

Laura Nasmyth *1984 Cambridge UK

Films (selection) Le Liquide (co-director 2019 a-g)

8:30 (2017 f) 1:1 (2012 a-g )

Austria

No dialog

2K 1:1.85

approx. 25 min

Concept Laura Nasmyth

Elio Gervasi

Key Cast Uma Shannon

Camera Matthias Helldoppler

Editor Laura Nasmyth

Producers

Franziska Zaida Schrammel

Laura Nasmyth, Elio Gervasi

Production Con Art Film

Completion 2021

Contact Con Art Film

An experimental reflection on a piece of

furniture entitled “Nesting Table,” designed

in 1935 by the Austrian/American artist,

architect and visionary, Friedrich Kiesler:

The film investigates the object, space,

architecture and filmic perception within a

kaleidoscopic universe. Computer animation

coupled with live action footage transforms

the historical context of Kiesler’s piece of

furniture, lifting it into the present day.

Karl-Heinz Klopf *1956 Linz Austria

Films (selection) Testa (2018 a-g) A Tropical

House (2015 short d) Tower House (2013 short d)

Austria

German/English (Eng/Ger sub)

HD 16:9

Dolby SR

approx. 15 min

Concept/Producer

Karl-Heinz Klopf

Camera Martin Putz

Editors Karl-Heinz Klopf

Tatia Skhirtladze

Production

KlopfKurz Vienna

Completion 2021

Contact

Karl-Heinz Klopf


Geschichten eines Jungen,

einer Frau und eines

Soldaten Franziska Pflaum

Stories of a Boy, a Woman and a Soldier:

We travel back in time and dive into their

memories. Individual scenes come together

to form a story that increasingly interweaves

the fates of all three protagonists: When

Reza’s parents are killed in a bomb explosion,

he decides to leave Afghanistan and

go to Germany. German soldier Matthias is

no longer able to cope in his homeland after

being deployed to Afghanistan. Stefanie,

a caretaker in Berlin, cannot comprehend,

why her son became a soldier.

Franziska Pflaum *1987 Vienna Austria

Films (selection) So schön wie du (2014 short f)

Draußen der Wald (2014 short f)

Austria/Germany

German/Dari (Eng Sub)

photo film

RAW 2K CinemaScope 1:2.35

Dolby SR

approx. 22 min

Screenplay Franziska Pflaum

Key Cast Ali Reza Ahmadi

Christina Große, Nico Ehrenteit

Camera Niki Waltl

Editor Friederike Hohmuth

Producer Maximilian Haslberger

Production Amerikafilm (DE)

Completion 2021

Heat Peter Kutin

Florian Kindlinger

Through the unorthodox use of modern image

and sound recording technology, Heat enables

an unusual view behind the facades of

a classical orchestra. From the recorded material,

which is created in close cooperation

with the musicians, the artist duo composed

and arranged an abstract short film, which

makes the unknowns within the “machine”

tangible. By means of a thermal imaging camera

it is possible to visualize minimal temperature

fluctuations and to record residual heat.

Peter Kutin *1983 Leoben Austria

Florian Kindlinger *1984 Salzburg Austria

Films (selection) The Fifth Wall (2018 a-g)

Desert Bloom (2015 a-g) E# – from a glacial

tune (2014 a-g)

Austria

No dialog

DCP

5.1

approx. 16 min

Realisation Peter Kutin

Florian Kindlinger

Musicians Manu Mayer, Matthias Loibner

Maiken Beer, Meaghan Burke, Igor Grosz

Completion 2021

Contact Peter Kutin

Florian Kindlinger

Contact Amerikafilm

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Avant-Garde Short in Production


Interweaving

Krisztina Kerekes

Nachts im Bach

Gudrun Krebitz

Interweaving is an experimental dance film

constituted by uncut long takes intended to

convey a concept of interconnectivity, embodying

how the inner and outer worlds of

human beings are reciprocally determined.

Over the course of this little exploratory journey,

several dancing couples tap their repertoire

of movements to engage in a dialog of

unexpected body language that they unfold

in natural as well as urban spaces. A dance

of relational dynamics based on openness

and vulnerability.

Krisztina Kerekes *1978

Sepsiszentgyörgy Romania

Films (selection) Leben für den Tod (2018 short d)

Spur (2012 short d) jeux infinit (2002 a-g)

Austria

No dialog

HD 16:9

stereo

approx. 20 min

Concept Sabine Parzer

Krisztina Kerekes

Camera Krisztina Kerekes

Editor Joana Scrinzi

Producer Krisztina Kerekes

It’s nighttime. Arda is sitting in the river,

accompanied by orchestral music. She

seems to be talking to herself: “Gentlemen

– as per usual I’ve ended up in a situation I

don’t understand or know anything about.

However, I won’t lead on how clueless I am.

I’m always operating in the dark, things tend

to turn out beautifully this way.” Out of this

darkness two moons come racing towards

her and I will tell you a secret: These moons

are your eyes.

Gudrun Krebitz *1983 Graz Austria

Films (selection) The Magical Dimension (2018

a-g) Exomoon (2016 a-g) Achill (2012 a-g)

Austria

German/English

DCP 16:9

stereo

approx. 10 min

Realisation

Gudrun Krebitz

Completion 2021

Contact

Gudrun Krebitz

Completion 2021

Contact Krisztina Kerekes


Never Meant to Be Seen

Elke Groen

nichts

Timotheus Tomicek

Never Meant to Be Seen is a film about the

nameless beauties of 35 mm films. Their

brief appearances at the start of each film

reel may have given them the hope that this

could be the start of a movie career but are

actually used for laboratory density tests.

The so called “China girls” or “girl heads,”

being looped, can wink, laugh and start to

talk with women’s dialogs from movies of

their period. The initial small talk leads into

a discussion what the idea of lascivious

posing for a material test is about.

Elke Groen *1969 Gmunden Austria

Films (selection) The Most Beautiful Place

on Earth (2020 d) Bojo Beach (2017 a-g)

Optical Sound (co-director 2014 a-g)

Austria

No dialog

35 mm CinemaScope 1:2.35

color/b&w

Dolby SR

approx. 8 min

Realisation Elke Groen

Production groen.film

The film nothing is a parable about laziness,

serenity, inactivity, passivity, lethargy,

comfort, indifference, listlessness, inaction,

apathy, detachment, sluggishness. By

means of a convoluted narrative structure,

the complex theme staged in the context of

our zeitgeist is worked into a filmic allegory

(simile).

Timotheus Tomicek *1978 Vienna Austria

Films (selection) A Portrait of Marlene Dumas

(2016 a-g) Katrin in Rom (2015 a-g) Jeff Wall

(2008 d)

Austria

German (Eng sub)

RAW 4K CinemaScope 1:2.35

stereo

approx. 15 min

Concept

Timotheus Tomicek

Klaus Speidel

Completion 2021

Contact

Timotheus Tomicek

Completion 2021

Contact groen.film

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Avant-Garde Short in Production


One Year

Johann Lurf

Out of Sight

Eve Heller

The film documents a reservoir and its surroundings

over the course of a single year:

A static mounted camera records 24 hours

for 365 days without interruption. Exposure

times initially last only a few seconds per

image, but their duration steadily increases.

At first the sun moves across the sky very

slowly, but soon it quickens. By the end of

the film the sun appears as a long luminous

band of light.

Johann Lurf *1982 Vienna Austria

Films (selection) Cavalcade (2019 a-g)

★ (2017 a-g) Vertigo Rush (2007 a-g)

Austria/France

No dialog

35 mm CinemaScope 1:2.35

Dolby Digital

approx. 20 min

Realisation

Johann Lurf

Completion 2022

Contact

Johann Lurf

The Währinger Friedhof in Vienna is a forgotten

Jewish cemetery marked by gravestones

eroding behind a high stone wall. The lives

of people interred and their offspring overlap

with the rise of photochemical imaging, analog

photography and film. Out of Sight is a cinematic

song of remembrance and an elegy to

fading histories woven out of imagery as technologically

disparate as pin-hole photos, glass

negatives and CinemaScopic film footage.

Eve Heller *1961 Northampton USA

Films (selection) Creme 21 (2013 a-g)

Self-Examination Remote Control (2009 a-g)

Ruby Skin (2005 a-g)

Austria

No dialog

35 mm CinemaScope 1:2.35

b&w stereo

approx. 22 min

Concept/Editor Eve Heller

Camera Hans Selikovsky

Eve Heller, Peter Miller

Completion 2021

Contact Eve Heller


PUR

Josephine Ahnelt

re–GEO/ristrutturare qualcosa

Michaela Schwentner

A personal Super-8 and Super-16 mm

reflection about the filmmakers 13+ year

long friendship with the designer of the

Viennese minimalist clothing label PUR.

Sometimes rough, sometimes ambivalent,

always in admiration for the craft and its

philosophy. The designer herself prefers

to stay absent from the screen. An

examination of a conceptual obsession.

Josephine Ahnelt *1987 Vienna Austria

Films (selection) Winter Bees (2018 a-g)

Venus & Periphery (2016 a-g) Tic Tac (2011 a-g)

Austria

German (Eng sub)

HD 16:9

stereo

approx. 8 min

Concept Josephine Ahnelt

Camera Serafin Spitzer

Editor Sebastian Schreiner

Completion 2021

Contact

Josephine Ahnelt

re–GEO/ristrutturare qualcosa is a poetic

approach to the Swiss germanist and

sculptor Georgette Klein (1893–1963), about

the (re)construction of her house in the

form of a sketch, her artistic work and her

contradictory personality, with an eye to her

numerous diary entries and letters.

Michaela Schwentner *1970 Linz Austria

Films (selection) zwischen mir und der welt/

aufräumen (2020 short d) personne (2016 a-g)

Penelope/In the scenery/Reflecting/Relations

(2013–2015 a-g)

Austria/Switzerland

German/French/Italian (Eng sub)

4K 1:1.85

color/b&w

Dolby Stereo

approx. 45 min

Concept/Editor/Producer

Michaela Schwentner

Key Cast Vivien Löschner

Aurelia Burckhardt, Nina Vobruba

Camera Martin Putz

Michaela Schwentner

Completion 2021

Contact Michaela Schwentner

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Avant-Garde Short in Production


Straight vs. Curved

Johannes Schiehsl

Talszenen

Annja Krautgasser

What initially begins as a purely geometrical

visual argument grows into a bitter struggle

between sense and sensuousness. By means

of wild metamorphoses, Curved attempts to

break through Straight. At the height of the

argument, it becomes clear the battle is in

fact the inner conflict plaguing our protagonist

Straight, who in the end must decide if

he prefers to sink into an ocean of sensuousness

or ossify in the boredom of sense.

Johannes Schiehsl

*1984 Wiener Neustadt Austria

Films (selection) Sternenjäger (2016 short f)

366 Tage (2011 short f) Zoopraxiscope (2009 a-g)

Austria/Germany

No dialog

HD 16:9

b&w

stereo

approx. 5 min

Concept Johannes Schiehsl

Producers Johannes Schiehsl

Benjamin Swiczinsky, Conrad Tambour

Thomas Meyer-Hermann

Production NÖT Die Trickfilmer (AT)

Studio Film Bilder (DE)

The film Valley Scenes concerns the mythology

and mysticism of Paganism. The here

and now becomes interwoven with the fear

of the unforeseeable – and also with the

ephemeral. The film is based on a Rhaetian

song that is a significant literary historical

document from Medieval times. To this very

day, it holds a mirror to our own societal imbalances

of power and gender inequalities.

Annja Krautgasser *1971 Hall/Tyrol Austria

Films (selection) Kriegsszenen (2020 a-g)

Dachszenen (2019 a-g) Waldszenen (2015 short f)

Austria

No dialog

HD 1:1.85

Dolby Stereo

approx. 25 min

Concept/Editor/Producer

Annja Krautgasser

Camera Martin Putz

Completion 2021

Contact

Annja Krautgasser

Completion 2021

Contact NÖT Die Trickfilmer


Tehran Recyclers

Nikki Schuster

Train Again

Peter Tscherkassky

Tehran Recyclers portrays the diverse

cultural, social and urban fabrics of this

city by means of experimental animation.

The viewer is guided to urban hideouts

where little creatures dwell. These are

digitally composed with collected trash and

typical local products. The clatter of the

limbs of these creatures interacts with the

soundscapes of Tehran.

Nikki Schuster *1974 Steyr Austria

Films (selection) animistica (2018 a-g)

Mexico Recyclers (2016 a-g) absent (2015 a-g)

Austria/Germany

No dialog

HD 16:9

stereo

approx. 6 min

Realisation

Nikki Schuster

Production Fiesfilm (DE)

Completion 2021

Contact

Nikki Schuster

18 years after producing his third film,

3/60 Bäume im Herbst, Kurt Kren shot his

masterpiece, 37/78 Tree Again, in the USA.

18 years after creating my third darkroom

film, L’Arrivée, as an homage to the Lumière

brothers and their film, L’Arrivée d’un train

en gare de La Ciotat (1895), I have embarked

on Train Again, the third film in my “Rushes”

series, as an homage to Kurt Kren that

simultaneously taps into a profoundly loaded

motif in film history. (Peter Tscherkassky)

Peter Tscherkassky *1958 Vienna Austria

Films (selection) The Exquisite Corpus (2015 a-g)

Coming Attractions (2010 a-g)

Outer Space (1999 a-g)

Austria

No dialog

35 mm 1:1.37

b&w

Dolby SR

approx. 20 min

Concept

Peter Tscherkassky

Editors

Peter Tscherkassky

Eve Heller

Completition 2021

Contact

Peter Tscherkassky

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Avant-Garde Short in Production


Video_70

Dextro.org

Videoletter

Karoline Riha

Video_70 accompanies Muehlengesang 3,

a piece of music by Alejandro del Valle-

Lattanzio, and is intended to visualize the

lifting of the veil, which prevents the view

behind the world’s facade.

Dextro.org (= Walter Gorgosilits)

*1968 Mödling Austria

Films (selection) Video_67B (2015 a-g)

Video_65 (2015 a-g) Video_64 (2014 a-g)

Austria

No dialog

HD 16:9

Dolby Stereo

approx. 14 min

Realisation

Dextro.org

Completion 2021

Contact

Dextro.org

Videoletter is a hybrid experimental animation

based on a visual dialog with Columbian

filmmaker Cecilia Traslaviña. It is an audiovisual

collage of digital and analog images,

which were recorded using different means

to become rhythmically and structurally

merged into a loose narration. Abstracted

sequences alternate with figurative sequences

as we accompany our protagonist

on her journey.

Karoline Riha *1977 Vienna Austria

Films (selection) Spring (2020 a-g) Seen Unseen

Scene (co-director 2018 a-g) Der Mann mit dem

bunten Ballon (co-director 2017 a-g)

Austria

No dialog

HD 16:9

stereo

approx. 20 min

Concept/Animation

Karoline Riha

Cecilia Traslaviña

Screenplay/Camera/Editor

Karoline Riha

Completion 2021

Contact

Karoline Riha



scholarships for

young talents

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Life on the Horn

Mo Harawe

Team

Rafael Haider

Vom ersten letzten Sommer

Malina Nwabuonwor

Who’s That Bird?

Manu Molin

Zwischen Bildern

Franzis Kabisch

Established in 2009, the Federal

Coordination Office for the

Promotion of Young Talent awards

five Start-Up Grants for Young

Film Artists a year, selected by

an expert jury. The program offers

not only financial support but also

professional guidance by experts

in the field, thereby aiming to

create favorable conditions for the

young filmmakers to develop their

projects.

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Scholarships for Young Talents


Life on the Horn

Mo Harawe

Team

Rafael Haider

Fiction

It has been over the course of several decades

that Europeans, above all the former

colonial power Italy – have been dumping

illegal toxic garbage in the ocean at the

Horn of Africa, allegedly in exchange for

arms shipments to local warring parties.

Since the 2004 earthquake and subsequent

tsunami devastated the region, the Somali

coastal area is contaminated. The film tells

this story elliptically, near wordlessly, finding

precise and highly sensitive images to

register this chronic violence – in gazes,

gestures, landscapes.

Mo Harawe *1992 Mogadishu Somalia

Films (selection) 1947 (2020 short f) Die

Geschichte vom Eisbär, der nach Afrika wollte

(2018 short f) Ein letztes Mal (2016 short f)

Contact

Mo Harawe

Fiction

Werner has been working 20 years as a

sales person for the Mandl printing company

and feels he is not adequately challenged.

The past few months he has been

attending a course on team-building and

mediation where he believes he has discovered

his calling. At the Mandl company

he now sees unresolved conflicts and inefficient

team-work everywhere he looks. He

convinces his boss Alice to allow him to

organize a collective team-building weekend.

Creating more conflicts than it solves,

the weekend culminates in a struggle for

survival.

Rafael Haider *1989 Oberndorf Austria

Films (selection) Das erste und das letzte Mal

(2018 short d) Esel – Carry on (2015 short f)

Contact

Rafael Haider


Vom ersten letzten Sommer

Malina Nwabuonwor

Who’s That Bird?

Manu Molin

Fiction

A village, a young girl from the city, her

strange family, her dying grandfather, a lady

funeral director, a precocious young boy

proposing bizarre solutions and a clumsy bull

terrier who is perhaps the incarnation of the

hellhound Cerberus himself: This is a curious

story about first encounters with death,

told in small episodes across the course of a

Summer. About the first last summer.

Malina Nwabuonwor *1994 Linz Austria

Contact

Malina Nwabuonwor

Experimental Animation

Charlotte (10), who is under great pressure

to perform, feels left alone by absent parents

who confine her in the corset of a precisely

planned everyday life. When the kakapo, an

owl parrot that has been declared extinct,

unexpectedly enters her life, she discovers

her courage and learns to enjoy life with fun.

Aroused by this special friendship, Charlotte

not only turns her life upside down, but also

helps her friend to find his home. This throws

the everyday life of her stressed parents

completely off track and ultimately turns the

whole city upside down.

Manu Molin *1983 Vienna Austria

Films (selection) Eiskarl (co-director 2014 short

animation) Sabine (2010 short f) Emily Winter

(2007 short animation)

Contact

Manu Molin

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Zwischen Bildern

Franzis Kabisch

Experimental Documentary

The documentary film project Between Images

concerns how abortion is represented in

movies and TV shows, from silent films of the

1920ies through Hollywood classics like Dirty

Dancing, to the long-running German soap

opera Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten, first

broadcast in 1992. The film portrays women

who themselves have had abortions and

shows them together watching, questioning

and commenting on found footage scenes

presenting stereotypes, clichés as well as

empowering moments. Between Images

follows a non-linear narrative about abortion,

representation, and the power of images.

Franzis Kabisch *1990 Münster Germany

Films (selection) A Film About the Desire to Make

It Work (2018 short f, a-g) Deklinationen, or: Can I

inherit my dead parents’ debts? (2016 a-g)

Ein Film (2012 a-g)

Contact

Franzis Kabisch



pixel, bytes

& film

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Digital change is continuously

influencing the production and

reception of contemporary art, and

due to ever increasing possibilities

in the field of digital image

production, this especially impacts

the field of audio-visual art.

The ongoing availability of new technologies

allows for and encourages

new approaches to the moving

image across space and time, and it

results in highly innovative formats

that examine and expand the notion

of narration as well as challenge a

critical inventory of the latter.

It is for this reason that in 2011 the

Film Department of the Division

for Arts and Culture initiated an

annual funding program for New

Film Formats, entitled Pixel, Bytes

& Film. This program supports a

selection of experimental audio-visual

projects dealing with digital media

and related image production, and

exploring the boundaries of film and

audio-visual art.

Since 2015, the initiative has been

work ing in cooperation with Austrian

public broadcasting TV channel ORF III,

to make the program artworks accessible

to a broader audience while also

providing participating artists exclusive

access to technical infrastructure and

archives of ORF III.

Additional cooperating partners in this

year’s edition of the program include

stakeholders and start-up’s in Austria’s

XR scene, such as sound:frame, Junge

Römer – Creative Production Studio,

XR Vienna, and arx anima, further promoting

and deepening the exchange of

knowledge and skills between the arts

and creative industry.

Meanwhile, go-international – a funding

source to provide Austrian support for

entering global markets, offered by the

Austrian Federal Economic Chamber

(WKÖ) – has contributed to help make

the program visible internationally.

In October 2019, the following nine

projects were selected for funding.

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Pixel, Bytes & Film


Brut & Parasit

Ganaël Dumreicher, Carla

Veltman, Martin Eichler

Documentary Fiction

The bark beetle kills trees. Its massive proliferation

is a consequence of the man-made

climate catastrophe and monoculture as

opposed to nature. Trekking a landscape

impacted by change, we follow the beetle

through the ongoing process of destruction

till the insect arrives at the door of our own

habitat. Scenarios are constructed employing

3D laser scans of real locations and

constructed atmospheres; the bark beetle

symbolizes our potential future as it enters

our own homes.

Carla Veltman *1996 Schwaz/Tyrol Austria

Martin Eichler *1996 Brno Czech Republic

Ganaël Dumreicher *1996 Vienna Austria

Films (selection) Voy (2020 music video)

Matteboyz (2017 music video)

Indianopolis (2014 d, a-g)

Civil Dusk

David Uzochukwu

Experimental Documentary

Civil dusk: evening twilight. The film introduces

a civil era in Uzochukwu’s relationship

with his father, reconsidering post-colonial

notions of (be)longing. A homesick Igbo

father turns to sand amidst his European

family, as he raises a house in his Nigerian

family village from afar. He thereby follows

a tradition rooted in the Biafran War. What

ground is solid enough to build on?

David Uzochukwu *1998 Innsbruck Austria

Films (selection) Götterdämmerung

(co-director 2020 short f)

Contact

David Uzochukwu

Contact

Ganaël Dumreicher


The Entropy Gardens

Leonhard Lass

Gregor Ladenhauf

Virtual Reality Experience

The Entropy Gardens by DEPART (= Lass/

Ladenhauf) is a unique VR experience that

puts visitors inside a constantly changing

horticultural environment. Investigating one

of the most archetypical artforms, it challenges

its myths, aesthetics and modes of

perception by combining poetry and generative

coding to construct a spellbinding and

surreal utopian place. Formally it consists

of an audiovisual 3D environment that combines

“realistic” natural elements with abstract,

computational forms. It is populated

by structures that resemble plants, organic

and anorganic matter and evolve through

interactions with their environment.

Leonhard Lass 1978 *Linz Austria

Gregor Ladenhauf *1978 Vienna Austria

Films (selection) The Transient Shadows

(2020 animated short) The Lacuna Shifts

(2017 virtual reality experience) The Eidolon

Splits (2015 interactive installation)

HYPERmnesia

Anna Lerchbaumer

Andreas Zißler

Avant-Garde Fiction

HYPERmnesia is the dissection of the screen

surface.This is not text but pixels behind

glass. This is where HYPERmnesia begins:

a sensual exploration of a world in which

memory, landscape and their pictorial

medialization collapse. A hike, a scanning of

a forest surface, a high-resolution recording

of the past and its threads, pipes and

pipelines into the future. The further one

moves through the thicket, the stronger the

suspicion grows that one is only moving on

a screen.

Anna Lerchbaumer *1989 Innsbruck Austria

Andreas Zißler *1989 Bad Aibling Germany

Films (selection) search-me-as.jpeg

(2020 video installation)

Contact

Anna Lerchbaumer

Andreas Zißler

Contact

Leonhard Lass

Gregor Ladenhauf

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Pixel, Bytes & Film


Infra-Ordinary Palm Trees

Marlies Pöschl

Make You Need Me

Samuel Traber

360° VR Film

Infra-Ordinary Palm Trees is a virtual reality

project about the outsourcing of old age. It

is a displaced “Heimatroman” or homeland

novel about a village that looks like every

other Swiss village. On the one hand, the

film shows everyday life in a nursing home

for European seniors in Thailand, on the

other hand it shares the inhabitants’ memories

of their home in Europe. The project

combines documentary scenes with staged

sequences to allow temporal layers to coexist

side by side.

Marlies Pöschl *1982 Salzburg Austria

Films (selection) Aurore (2019 short d, a-g)

Cinema Cristal (2017 a-g)

Sternheim (2011 short d, f)

Contact

Marlies Pöschl

360° VR Music Video

In a scary utopia we follow electronic trash

on its way to a gigantic space dump. We are

in a rocket transporting old TVs, mobiles,

computers and toys. In zero gravity the

broken screens start to flicker, play the

song and seem like an A.I. singing to you.

“I can make you want me, but I can’t make

you need me...” The rocket opens and all

the trash floats in an orbit of waste cycling

the earth.

Samuel Traber *1986 Leutschach Austria

Films (selection) Würmlas Wände (2020 short d)

Botanic Matters (2020 animation)

In, Out - 5kHD (2019 music video)

Contact

Samuel Traber


Mukbang

Susanna Flock

The Soul at Work

Ursula Mayer

Avant-Garde Short

Boiled eggs, omelette, sunny-side up eggs,

poached eggs, egg-in-a-glass, scrambled

eggs, custard royale, beaten egg-whites:

While protagonists in an eating show (aka

Mukbang) consume dishes made solely of

eggs, the film touches on the ambivalence

of the world – a world increasingly interconnected

via new technologies and pressed

ever closer together, yet characterized by a

growing loneliness.

Susanna Flock *1988 Graz Austria

Films (selection) I don’t exist yet (2020 a-g)

Fetish Finger (2016 a-g)

Contact

Susanna Flock

Documentary Fiction

Speculative scenarios of the future are

gener ated through an interplay between

shots of transwoman Valentijn de Hingh and

the production of her digital double. The

“cyborg” serves as a point of departure for

initiating discussions about post-human embodiment

and new technologies. The avatar

here stands in as a generative metaphor for

the development of feminist discourse within

technological contexts.

Ursula Mayer *1970 Ried/Innkreis Austria

Films (selection) The Fire of Knowledge Burns

All Karma to Ashes (2019 HD endless loop crossmedia)

Atom Spirit (2017 a-g) Medea (2013 a-g)

Contact

Ursula Mayer

156__ 157

Pixel, Bytes & Film


Wenn die Welt zu Ende

geht, werde ich dich geliebt

haben. Gloria Gammer

Avant-Garde Fiction

Andy uploads his mind to “Digital World,”

just before the real world goes up in flames

and his fleshly body dies. His consciousness

gets stuck in Digital World. Nothing is like

before: He is unable to relate to his feelings

and has to realize that his thinking is slowly

changing too. When the World Comes to an

End, I Will Have Loved You.

Gloria Gammer *1985 Linz Austria

Films (selection) 2268, Früher (2019 short d)

Tingle Tingle (2019 short d) The Red Face and

Five Stars (2012 short d)

Contact

Gloria Gammer



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Production Companies

Amerikafilm

Feurigstraße 62

10827 Berlin/Germany

+49 172 966 03 85

www.amerikafilm.de

berg hammer film

Karin Berghammer

Tandelmarktgasse 8/16

1020 Vienna/Austria

+43 699 171 189 69

www.berghammerfilm.at

Con Art Film

1050 Vienna/Austria

hello@conartflm.com

www.conartflm.com

Cronos Film

Schwindgasse 11/2

1040 Vienna/Austria

+43 1 961 05 22

www.cronos.at

Daniela Praher

Filmproduktion

Große Sperlgasse 32-34/5

1020 Vienna/Austria

+43 650 341 74 60

www.praherfilm.at

European Film Conspiracy

Gumpendorfer Str. 10-12/23

1060 Vienna/Austria

www.europeanfilm

conspiracy.com

FreibeuterFilm

Turmburggasse 2-8/5/2

1060 Vienna/Austria

+43 720 34 65 10

www.freibeuterfilm.at

Golden Girls Filmproduktion

Seidengasse 15/20

1070 Vienna/Austria

+43 1 810 56 36

www.goldengirls.at

groen.film

Neubaugasse 52/36

1070 Vienna/Austria

+43 1 944 18 93

www.groenfilm.at

hammelfilm

Johannes Hammel

Film- und Videoproduktion

Schönbrunner Straße 14a/19

1050 Vienna/Austria

+43 699 110 064 13

hammelfilm@hotmail.com

Horse&Fruits

Filmproduktion

Zieglergasse 63/2

1070 Vienna/Austria

+43 1 924 06 63

www.horseandfruits.com

Joerg Burger Filmproduktion

Gartengasse 18/21

1050 Vienna/Austria

+43 699 104 586 47

www.joergburger.com

Martin Putz Filmproduktion

Neubaugasse 7/63

1070 Vienna/Austria

+43 676 338 84 39

www.martinputz.com

Mischief Films

Goethegasse 1/Hof 2/Stg. 4

1010 Vienna/Austria

+43 1 585 232 423

www.mischief-films.com

moving mountains films

Lenaustraße 14

12047 Berlin/Germany

+49 176 823 229 56

www.movingm.com

www.rosercorella.com

Nabis Filmgroup

Michael-Walz-Gasse 18c

5020 Salzburg/Austria

+43 650 230 30 44

www.nabisfilm.com

NÖT Die Trickfilmer

Landstraßer Hauptstr. 98/3/21

1030 Vienna/Austria

+43 680 500 89 73

www.trickfilmer.at

Panama Film

Geusaugasse 31/4

1030 Vienna/Austria

+43 1 945 51 13

www.panama-film.com

Pavel Cuzuioc Filmproduktion

Kohlgasse 9/13

1050 Vienna/Austria

+43 699 171 050 24

www.pavelcuzuioc.com

PLAESION Film + Vision

Schlosshofer Straße 8/4/3

2301 Groß-Enzersdorf/Austria

+43 660 213 69 66

www.plaesion.com

RAUMZEITFILM Produktion

Rasumofskygasse 21

1030 Vienna/Austria

+43 660 477 33 46

www.raumzeitfilm.com

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Contact Addresses


Sales

Directors

Soleil Film

Linke Wienzeile 142/13

1060 Vienna/Austria

+43 699 123 974 78

www.soleilfilm.at

Studio Brauneis

Tongasse 9/14

1030 Vienna/Austria

+43 699 171 506 90

sebastian@brauneis.biz

Susanne Brandstätter

Filmproduktion

Florianigasse 60/14

1080 Vienna/Austria

+43 676 500 78 49

www.susannebrandstaetter.com

www.thislandismyland-film.com

The Raven Films

Josefstädter Straße 16/6-7

1080 Vienna/Austria

+43 676 938 97 67

www.theravenfilms.com

Vento Film

Leitermayergasse 33/20

1180 Vienna/Austria

+43 1 406 03 92

www.ventofilm.com

WILDart FILM

Pfeilgasse 32/1

1080 Vienna/Austria

+43 1 595 29 91

www.wildartfilm.com

sixpackfilm

Neubaugasse 45/13

1070 Vienna/Austria

+43 1 526 09 90-0

office@sixpackfilm.com

www.sixpackfilm.com

Josephine Ahnelt

1020 Vienna/Austria

www.josephineahnelt.com

Matthias van Baaren

matthiasvanbaaren

@yahoo.de

Veronika Barnaš

1090 Vienna/Austria

www.veronikabarnas.net

Sybille Bauer

1090 Vienna/Austria

www.sybillebauer.com

Dominik Brauweiler

53115 Bonn/Germany

dcbrauweiler@gmail.com

Jakob Brossmann

1020 Vienna/Austria

www.finali.at

Milena Czernovsky

czernovsky_milena

@hotmail.com

Josef Dabernig

1030 Vienna/Austria

www.dabernig.net

Claudia Dermutz

8813 St. Lambrecht/Austria

dia.d@gmx.net

Dextro.org

www.dextro.org

Ganaël Dumreicher

1070 Vienna/Austria

ganael@badyminck.com

Philipp Fleischmann

philippf@gmx.net


Directors

Susanna Flock

1030 Vienna/Austria

www.susannaflock.net

Maximilian Fürst

1040 Vienna/Austria

maxfuerst@gmx.at

Gloria Gammer

12057 Berlin/Germany

www.rainbowwarrior.at

Alireza Ghanie

5020 Salzburg/Austria

ghanie110@yahoo.de

Sophie Gmeiner

10247 Berlin/Germany

www.schieferfilm.com

Rafael Haider

1010 Vienna/Austria

rh.doz@gmx.at

Amina Handke

1060 Vienna/Austria

www.amina.at

Mo Harawe

1100 Vienna/Austria

muha.harawe@gmail.com

Eve Heller

hellereve@gmail.com

Bernhard Hetzenauer

4048 Puchenau/Austria

www.facesofathens.com

Rebecca Hirneise

1060 Vienna/Austria

rh.hirneise@gmail.com

Hans Hochstöger

1030 Vienna/Austria

www.hanshochstoeger.com

Harald Hund

www.haraldhund.com

Franzis Kabisch

1080 Vienna/Austria

www.franziskabisch.net

Eginhartz Kanter

4020 Linz/Austria

info@eginhartz.com

Krisztina Kerekes

3423 St. Andrä-Wördern/

Austria

krisztina.kerekes@gmail.com

Florian Kindlinger

www.kutinkindlinger.com

Karl-Heinz Klopf

1020 Vienna/Austria

www.khklopf.at

Florian Kogler

1020 Vienna/Austria

flo.kgler@gmail.com

Dariusz Kowalski

1160 Vienna/Austria

www.dariuszkowalski.org

Annja Krautgasser

1100 Vienna/Austria

email@annjakrautgasser.net

Lilith Kraxner

l.kraxner@gmail.com

Gudrun Krebitz

www.gudrunkrebitz.com

Martina Kudláček

mina24824@gmail.com

Peter Kutin

www.kutinkindlinger.com

Gregor Ladenhauf

1050 Vienna/Austria

www.depart.at

Leonhard Lass

1070 Vienna/Austria

www.depart.at

Anna Lerchbaumer

1070 Vienna/Austria

www.annalerchbaumer.com

Wolf-Maximilian Liebich

1080 Vienna/Austria

www.wmliebich.com

Johann Lurf

1010 Vienna/Austria

www.johannlurf.net

Gabriele Mathes

1140 Vienna/Austria

gabriele.mathes@gmx.net

Ursula Mayer

1070 Vienna/Austria

www.ursulamayer.com

Manu Molin

1120 Vienna/Austria

www.manumolin.com

Kálmán Nagy

1190 Vienna/Austria

kamyfilm@gmail.com

Christian Neubacher

neuba@posteo.at

Clemens Niel

4020 Linz/Austria

www.clemensniel.at

Malina Nwabuonwor

4113 Sankt Martin/Austria

malina.n@gmx.at

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Contact Addresses


Directors

Bernd Oppl

1040 Vienna/Austria

bernd@oppl.net

Valérie Pelet

1170 Vienna/Austria

valeriepelet@gmail.com

Caspar Pfaundler

1020 Vienna/Austria

caspar.pfaundler@aon.at

Franziska Pflaum

1030 Vienna/Austria

franziskapflaum@hotmail.com

Maria Lisa Pichler

c/o Luise Müller

1090 Vienna/Austria

marialisa.pichler@gmx.at

Marlies Pöschl

1020 Vienna/Austria

www.marliespoeschl.net

Jan Prazak

1080 Vienna/Austria

jpz@gmx.at

Ulrike Putzer

1060 Vienna/Austria

ulrikeputzer@hotmail.com

Ella Raidel

1060 Vienna/Austria

www.ellaraidel.com

Adele Razkövi

3192 Hohenberg/Austria

www.adeleworks.com

Karoline Riha

2103 Langenzersdorf/Austria

www.karolineriha.at

Constanze Ruhm

3002 Purkersdorf/Austria

cr@constanzeruhm.net

Albert Sackl

1200 Vienna/Austria

www.albertsackl.com

Sebastian Schmidl

sebastian.schmidl@gmx.at

Fridolin Schönwiese

1030 Vienna/Austria

schoenwiese@mac.com

Lotte Schreiber

1150 Vienna/Austria

www.lotteschreiber.com

Nikki Schuster

10243 Berlin/Germany

www.fiesfilm.com

Manfred Schwaba

1230 Vienna/Austria

www.schwaba.at

Christoph Schwarz

1090 Vienna/Austria

www.christophschwarz.net

Michaela Schwentner

1040 Vienna/Austria

www.jade-enterprises.at

Katharina Simunic

1160 Vienna/Austria

rosenhaar@gmx.at

Simon Spitzer

1200 Vienna/Austria

nomisspitzer@gmail.com

Monika Stuhl

1050 Vienna/Austria

m.stuhl@gmx.net

Dominik Galleya Tendl

4020 Linz/Austria

www.dominikgalleya.com

Timotheus Tomicek

1080 Vienna/Austria

mail@timotheustomicek.net

Samuel Traber

8010 Graz/Austria

www.funkeundglanz.com

Peter Tscherkassky

1010 Vienna/Austria

peter@tscherkassky.at

David Uzochukwu

12045 Berlin/Germany

www.daviduzochukwu.com

Borjana Ventzislavova

1040 Vienna/Austria

www.borjana.net

Jola Wieczorek

4812 Ohlsdorf/Austria

www.jolawieczorek.com

Conny Zenk

1150 Vienna/Austria

www.connyzenk.com

Andreas Zißler

www.andreaszissler.com

Markus Zizenbacher

1080 Vienna/Austria

markzibach@gmail.com

Petra Zöpnek

1080 Vienna/Austria

petra.z@servus.at

Antoinette Zwirchmayr

1050 Vienna/Austria

www.antoinettezwirchmayr.com



index

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Index Films

14/15............................................................132

2551.01.........................................................62

All the Stops...........................................62

Alterlaa – 27 Storeys.....................80

Am Gang.....................................................58

Das andere Ende

der Straße................................................115

Der antifaschistische Zoo.......133

Atlantis........................................................115

Auf dem Grund

des Wäschekorbes.........................133

Auf der Suche nach

der gestohlenen Zeit.......................81

Augusts Orte........................................124

Aus der Wunderwelt.......................82

Beatrix............................................................71

Before I Die..............................................83

Bitte warten .........................................44

Die brennende Nacht.....................72

Brut & Parasit......................................153

Cargo Carriers.....................................134

Carla Lonzi – Ein Porträt

zweiter Ordnung.................................84

Casting Tapes........................................55

Children’s Film......................................58

Civil Dusk.................................................153

Dariush.........................................................85

Davos.............................................................45

Dear Darkness.....................................116

Dreaming Dogs and

Barking Men............................................86

Endphase...................................................87

Entlang der Körper.........................125

The Entropy Gardens...................154

Erinnerungsrauschen...................134

Europe, Can You See Me?.......125

Eva-Maria...................................................88

EXT..................................................................135

Fahren...........................................................59

Fify Ibrahim hört auf!

Fify Ibrahim hört auf?...................126

Filmkorrespondenz..........................63

Fireworks..................................................116

Folgenlos – A Film

Without Consequences................73

Frauenfragmente:

Gini und Resi........................................126

From Endlessness

to Infinity..................................................135

Geschichten eines

Jungen, einer Frau

und eines Soldaten........................136

Gli appunti di Anna Azzori.........46

Glory to the Queen...........................47

Die guten Plätze.................................117

Heat...............................................................136

HLS/Hasenleiten Stories..........127

HYPERmnesia........................................154

Infra-Ordinary Palm Trees........155

Ingo und Maja......................................117

Interweaving.........................................137

it works 20...............................................89

Just Be There..........................................90

Krai....................................................................91

Kurt Kren....................................................92

Left to Die.................................................93

The Life of Sean DeLear..............94

Life on the Horn................................147

Make You Need Me.......................155

Mein Satz..................................................118

Mirrors..........................................................95

Mukbang...................................................156

My Room....................................................96

Nachts im Bach.................................137

Never Meant to Be Seen..........138

News From Home.

News to Home. ..................................110

nichts...........................................................138

Nur ein Augenblick...........................97

One Year...................................................139

Order in Chaos –

Chaos in Order.....................................98

Ordinary Creatures...........................40

Out of Sight...........................................139

Paraísos.......................................................99

A Pile of Ghosts.................................127

Pomp..............................................................63

A proposal to project

in Scope......................................................64

PUR.................................................................140

Read My Breasts..............................100

re–GEO/ristrutturare

qualcosa....................................................140

Reisen...........................................................118

Rösl’s Suitcase....................................101

Room Without a View....................48

Rosa im Schloss.................................119

Ruletista!...................................................119

Sanatorium Druzhba.....................128

Der schönste Platz

auf Erden....................................................49

Sigmund Freud.

Jude ohne Gott.....................................50

Soldat Ahmet.........................................74

The Soul at Work..............................156

Sparschwein...........................................75

Stories From the Sea...................102

Straight vs. Curved.........................141

Swimming Pool....................................76

Tagebuch eines

Optimisten..............................................103

Die Tagträume

des Nikolaus Habjan....................104

Talszenen..................................................141

Tauchen.....................................................120

Team.............................................................147

Tehran Recyclers..............................142

This Land Is My Land......................51

Those Next to Us.............................128

Tovo.................................................................64

Train Again..............................................142

The Trouble With

Being Born.................................................41

Verabredung im Herbst...............77

Verwandlung.........................................129

Video_70..................................................143

Videoletter..............................................143

Vom ersten letzten

Sommer.....................................................148

Vor dem Verschwinden/

Izginjanje..................................................105

Was eine Familie

leisten kann.............................................59

Was man empfindet,

ist Angst....................................................120

Was soll man machen –

Vor Entzücken?....................................111

We have more than

beds to dream in................................65

Wenn die Welt zu Ende

geht, werde ich

dich geliebt haben. .......................157

Where Is Ida?........................................121

Where Is Lotte?....................................65

Who’s That Bird?...............................148

Wind..............................................................129

Zusammenleben...............................106

Zwischen Bildern..............................149

Zwischennutzung.............................107

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Index


Index Directors

Ahnelt Josephine..............................140

Baaren van Matthias.......................55

Barnaš Veronika..................................59

Bauer Sybille...........................................59

Böck Hannes..........................................27

Brandstätter Susanne....................51

Brauneis Sebastian..........................77

Brauweiler Dominik........................115

Brossmann Jakob...............................73

Burger Joerg............................................97

Corella Roser.........................................48

Covi Tizza.................................................103

Cuzuioc Pavel..............................44, 98

Czernovsky Milena............................71

Dabernig Josef......................................62

Daschner Katrina...............................63

Dermutz Claudia.................................58

Dextro.org...............................................143

Dumreicher Ganaël........................153

Durst Alice................................................82

Eichler Martin......................................153

Flock Susanna....................................156

Frimmel Rainer...................................103

Fürhapter Thomas...........................106

Fürst Maximilian................................118

Gammer Gloria...................................157

Ghanie Alireza.......................................95

Gleissinger Bianca............................80

Gmeiner Sophie.................................126

Groen Elke....................................49, 138

Haider Rafael.......................................147

Hammel Johannes.................72, 104

Handke Amina...........................58, 118

Harawe Mo.............................................147

Heller Eve.................................................139

Hetzenauer Bernhard...................128

Hirneise Rebecca.............................120

Hochstöger Hans...............................87

Hoesl Daniel............................................45

Hund Harald..........................................128

Kaaserer Ruth........................................24

Kabisch Franzis..................................149

Kanter Eginhartz...............................134

Kerekes Krisztina.............................137

Khazaradze Anna...............................47

Kindlinger Florian.............................136

Klopf Karl-Heinz.................................135

Kogler Florian.......................................117

Kowalski Dariusz..............................107

Krautgasser Annja...........................141

Kraxner Lilith...........................................71

Krebitz Gudrun...................................137

Kremser Elsa..........................................86

Kudláček Martina.....................32, 92

Kutin Peter..............................................136

Ladenhauf Gregor...........................154

Ladner Lukas..........................................88

Lapin Aleksey.........................................91

Lass Leonhard....................................154

Lennard Elizabeth.............................101

Lenz Jannis...............................................74

Lerchbaumer Anna.........................154

Liebich Wolf-Maximilian.............119

Lurf Johann.............................................139

Malinowski Filip Antoni................76

Marschall Thomas.............................40

Mathes Gabriele................................126

Mayer Ursula........................................156

Molin Manu............................................148

Mračnikar Andrina..........................105

Müller Luise.............................................85

Nagy Kálmán.........................................115

Nasmyth Laura...................................135

Neubacher Christian.......................82

Niel Clemens........................................120

Niemann Julia........................................45

Nwabuonwor Malina.....................148

Ofner Astrid Johanna......................111

Oppl Bernd...............................................65

Pelet Valérie..........................................124

Peter Levin...............................................86

Pfaffenbichler Norbert..................62

Pfaundler Caspar...............................90

Pflaum Franziska..............................136

Pöschl Marlies.....................................155

Prazak Jan................................................117

Putz Martin.............................................129

Putzer Ulrike...........................................55

Raidel Ella................................................127

Rauchensteiner Meinhard.......133

Razkövi Adele......................................133

Rechinsky Juri........................................83

Riha Karoline........................................143

Rinner Lukas Valenta....................119

Ruhm Constanze......................46, 84

Sackl Albert...........................................132

Salomonowitz Anja........................100

Schiehsl Johannes............................141

Schmid Viktoria...................................64

Schmidl Sebastian...........................116

Schönwiese Fridolin........................89

Schreiber Lotte..................................127

Schuster Nikki....................................142

Schwaba Manfred.............................63

Schwarz Christoph...........................75

Schwentner Michaela..................140

sebastian j. f..........................................93

Simunic Katharina...........................125

Skhirtladze Tatia.................................47

Spitzer Simon......................................129

Steiner Thomas....................................64

Stuhl Monika..........................................96

Teboul David...........................................50

Tendl Dominik Galleya................120

Tomicek Timotheus.......................138

Traber Samuel.....................................155

Trischler Clara.......................................99

Tscherkassky Peter.......................142

Uzochukwu David............................153

Veltman Carla......................................153

Ventzislavova Borjana..................110

Wakolbinger Konrad........................81

Wieczorek Jola....................................102

Wollner Sandra......................................41

Zenk Conny............................................134

Zißler Andreas.....................................154

Zizenbacher Markus.......................94

Zöpnek Petra...............................65, 121

Zwirchmayr

Antoinette..........................63, 116, 125


Photo Credits

pages 2–3, p 16–17, 59 r.

© Sybille Bauer

p 6–7, 137 l. © Krisztina Kerekes

p 8 © BMKÖS © Peter Lechner/HBF

p 10–11, 140 l. © Josephine Ahnelt

p 22–23 © Ruth Kaaserer

p 25 © Lisa Truttmann

p 28 © Philipp Fleischmann

p 30–31 © Martina Kudláček

p 33 © Robert Newald

p 36–37, 38–39, 41, 52–53, 68–69,

112–113 © Sandra Wollner/

Panama Film

p 40 © Martin Putz/

Daniela Praher Filmproduktion

p 42–43, 56–57, 78–79,122–123

© Katharina Müller

p 44, 98 © Pavel Cuzuioc

p 45 © Daniel Hoesl/

European Film Conspiracy

p 46 Constanze Ruhm

p 47 © Sebastian Thaler/

berg hammer film

p 48 © Roser Corella/

moving mountains films

p 49 © Elke Groen/groen.film &

Golden Girls Filmproduktion

p 50 © David Teboul/WILDart FILM

p 51 © Joerg Burger/Susanne

Brandstätter Filmproduktion

p 55 © Ulrike Putzer & Matthias

van Baaren

p 58 l. © Claudia Dermutz

p 58 r. © Amina Handke & Leena

Koppe/FreibeuterFilm

p 59 l. © Veronika Barnaš

p 60–61, 64 r., 108–109, 130–131

© Thomas Steiner

p 62 l., 164–165 © Norbert

Pfaffenbichler

p 62 r. © Josef Dabernig

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& Manfred Schwaba

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p 71 © Milena Czernovsky

& Lilith Kraxner

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Mischief Films

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Christian Neubacher

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Horse&Fruits Filmproduktion

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RAUMZEITFILM Produktion

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p 88 © Lukas Ladner/Golden

Girls Filmproduktion & Bunny

Beach Films

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Horse&Fruits Filmproduktion

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Horse&Fruits Filmproduktion

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PLAESION Film + Vision

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Tizza Covi/Vento Film

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Mischief Films

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Nabis Filmgroup

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p 120 r. © Sonia Borkowicz

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p 136 l. © Niki Waltl

p 136 r. © Peter Kutin

& Florian Kindlinger

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