Country: Austria

Direction Gustav Deutsch

Direction Josh Lowell · Peter Mortimer

Synopsis In an unbelievable story of perseverance, free climber Tommy Caldwell and climbing partner Kevin Jorgeson attempt to scale the impossible 3000ft Dawn Wall of El Capitan.

Direction Michael Haneke

Cast Jean-Louis Trintignant · Emmanuelle Riva · Isabelle Huppert · William Shimell

Synopsis Love (2012) follows Georges and Anne, an elderly couple whose deep bond is tested when Anne suffers a stroke. As her health declines, Georges becomes her devoted caretaker, navigating the challenges of aging, illness, and unwavering commitment. Their quiet, dignified...

Direction Gustav Deutsch

Direction Michael Glawogger

Synopsis A "portrait" of people who live precariously, but with an unusual level of resourcefulness and imagination, in Bombay, New York, Moskou and Mexico City.

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Günter Reich · Louis Devos · Eva Csapo · Roger Lucas

Synopsis Moses und Aron is a 1973 film by the French filmmaking duo of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet based on the unfinished opera of the same title by Arnold Schoenberg. During its 1975 run at US festivals, it was also...

Direction Michael Glawogger

Synopsis Is heavy manual labor disappearing or is it just becoming invisible? Where can we still find it in the 21st century? Workingman's Death follows the trail of the HEROES in the illegal mines of the Ukraine, sniffs out GHOST among...

Direction Paul Julien Robert

Synopsis Communal property, free sexuality, dissolution of the nuclear family - these were the basic principles of the Friedrichshof, the largest commune in Europe founded by the Viennese Actionist Otto Muehl at the beginning of the 1970's. In my fathers, my...

Direction Michael Haneke

Cast Susanne Lothar · Ulrich Mühe · Arno Frisch · Frank Giering

Synopsis In Funny Games (1997), a wealthy family arrives at their secluded lakeside vacation home, expecting a peaceful retreat. Their tranquility is shattered when two polite yet unsettling young men appear, asking for help. What begins as a seemingly innocent encounter...

Direction Sebastian Meise

Cast Franz Rogowski · Georg Friedrich · Anton von Lucke · Joachim Schoenfeld

Synopsis In postwar Germany, Hans is imprisoned again and again for being homosexual. The one steady relationship in his life becomes his long time cell mate, Viktor, a convicted murderer.

Direction Pál Fejös

Cast Annabella · Gustav Fröhlich · Paul Otto · Hans Marr

Direction Ruth Beckermann

Cast Ilkay Idiskut · Majeda Alshammaa · Nerjiss Aldebi · Davut Kaplan

Synopsis More than 60 percent of all children in Viennese primary schools do not speak German as their first language. At the same time, there is an acute shortage of teachers and supervisors. Such adverse conditions are the starting point of...

Direction Peter Tscherkassky

Synopsis 18 years after Kurt Kren produced his third film 3/60 Bäume im Herbst (3/60 Trees in Autumn), he shot his masterpiece 37/78 Tree Again. 18 years after I created my third darkroom film L’Arrivée (an homage to the Lumière brothers...

Direction Peter Tscherkassky

Synopsis Coming Attractions and the construction of its images are woven around the idea that there is a deep, underlying relationship between early cinema and avant-garde film.

Direction Stefan Ruzowitzky

Cast Karl Markovics · August Diehl · Devid Striesow · Martin Brambach

Synopsis The Counterfeiters (2007) is a gripping historical drama based on true events. Set during WWII, it follows Salomon Sorowitsch, a skilled Jewish counterfeiter imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp. Forced to collaborate in Operation Bernhard, he joins a team of...

Direction Michael Glawogger · Monika Willi

Synopsis Michael Glawogger never returned from a planned trip around the world, and the material he shot had to be completed by his editor Monika Willi. The result is a visually powerful work that uses images of waste, decay, and death...

Direction Nikolaus Geyrhalter

Synopsis Welcome to the world of industrial food production and high-tech farming! To the rhythm of conveyor belts and immense machines, the film looks without commenting into the places where food is produced in Europe: monumental spaces, surreal landscapes and bizarre...

Direction Gustav Deutsch

Synopsis FILM IST. a girl & a gun is a film drama in five acts that deals with one of the oldest themes of cinematography and humankind: the confrontation of the sexes. From the birth of the universe and the world...

Direction Michael Haneke

Cast Arno Frisch · Angela Winkler · Ulrich Mühe · Ingrid Strassner

Synopsis Benny's Video is the second in director Michael Haneke's trilogy exploring the role of violence and the media in modern Austrian society. A 14-year-old video enthusiast is so caught up in film fantasy that he can no longer relate to...

Direction Valie Export

Cast Susanne Widl · Peter Weibel · Josef Plavec · Monica Helfer-Friedrich

Synopsis Anna, an artist, is obsessed with the invasion of alien doubles bent on total destruction. Her schizophrenia is reflected in the juxtapositions of long movie camera takes with violently edited montages: private with public spaces; black & white with colour,...