1914: A War of Images
World War I was the battlefield for the first propaganda war in history. The recently invented and very popular medium of film was used by all military parties to create deception and manipulate public opinion.…
Autumn Gold
Life is short. Run faster. Autumn Gold tells the life-affirming story of five athletes in their preparation for the Track and Field World Championships. Their toughest challenge is their age: these potential world…
Down and Out
You see them at the same time you do not see them: Homeless people are often invisible to the rest of the world. In the long-term observation documentary DOWN AND OUT some of them are closely portrayed.
Empire Me - New Worlds Are Happening!
Handmade utopias - a filmic search for the worldwide phenomenon of the micronation movement. Do-it-yourself states that have distanced themselves from the economic and political mainstreaming of globalization. A road…
Erwin Wurm - The Artist Who Swallowed The World
Listed as one of the Top 20 contemporary artists, the Austrian Erwin Wurm criticizes the encrusted affluent society with seemingly simple sculptures that meet the current zeitgeist. The film explores the artist, his…
Final Touch
How mourning families get the opportunity for a farewell on the open coffin. A film about a less cramped handling with a dead body.
The Green Green Grass Beneath
Ceija Stojka survived. As a child she was an inmate in Nazi death camps. Auschwitz, Ravensbrück and Bergen-Belsen - where she and her mother were liberated by Allied troops in 1945. Ceija talks about the horrors of her…
Hot Spot
Michl's Restaurant helps the long-term unemployed reenter the workforce. In addition to everyday life in the kitchen, there are also accompanying conversations at the center of the project as well as the film. The…
I Am From Nowhere
Since 1952 countless films, documentaries, and reports have been made about Mikova, the small village in Eastern Slovakia with a population of 150, from where Andy Warhol`s family emigrated to the US. Focusing on his…
Into the World
Nothings demonstrates the fragility of human life more clearly than the sight of a newborn child. And so the film Into the World begins, though slowly and quietly, with an alarming image: that of a gasping infant in an…
Landscapes of Memory – The Life of Ruth Kluger
It is one thing to survive the Holocaust, but quite another to deal with the lasting impact of this experience. This filmic portrait of Ruth Klüger, an American literary scholar from Vienna, deals with these issues by…
Like the Others
The feature documentary Like the Others depicts the daily work at a child and adolescent psychiatric centre near Vienna, showing the perpetual balancing act between gentle caution and pressure, routine and improvisation.
Time to Go
"Time to Go" addresses one of society's greatest taboos: dying and death. The documentary was shot in Vienna at the hospice CS Hospiz Rennweg over the period of three months. The hospice functions especially to…
Ulrich Seidl - A Director at Work
The film portrait Ulrich Seidl – A Director at Work depicts the controversial Austrian filmmaker Ulrich Seidl at work for the first time, painting a vivid picture of the much-debated “Seidl method”: The camera...