Are You Sleeping, Brother Jakob?
Four brothers on their journey into the past. It´s a way of memories, after their fifth brother had died - starting in the Austrian mountains and ending up in Porto.
Calling Hedy Lamarr
Who she really was? Viennese girl. Hollywood goddess. Inventor. A success story. A failure. Forgotten. Rediscovered. The studio wanted her to be beautiful and nothing else. Her son wanted a loving mother. Her six…
Cinema Futures
Cinema Futures is a time travel to the past and the possible futures of film and cinema.
Cooking History
A documentary film about army cooks. It shows how the everyday need of thousands armed stomachs affects the victories and defeats. About the field "kitchen" as a model of a world where food preparation becomes a fight…
Edgar G. Ulmer - The Man Off-Screen
Edgar G. Ulmer - the uncrowned King of B-Movies: Always walking a fine line between art and outrageous trash, solid film craft and lurid B-Pictures. He did not only acquire cult-status but also had an important…
Euphoric Nights in Vienna
Asmahan - Syrian Druze princess, film diva, music icon and femme fatale of the Arab world in the 1940s. When Vienna was heavily bombed by the Allies during World War II, she sang „Euphoric Nights in Vienna“ and created…
The Five Cardinal Points
The film narrates the story of the inhabitants of the Mexican village Tres Valles in the region of Veracruz. For generations these people were rooted with their soil. They worked as farmers and craftsmen. Cultivation of…
Focus on Infinity
Focus on Infinity is a cinematic journey to the places, people and machines that are involved in exploring the origin of our cosmos and of our existence. It is a very personal and intuitive investigation into the roots…
Girls Don't Fly
An airstrip, a hangar and a classroom somewhere in rural Ghana: This is the place where 18-year-old Lydia and 20-year-old Esther hope to achieve their dream: learning how to fly.
Invisible Man
Christmas Day 1960. After five years of imprisonment a young man escapes in a snowy winter night with a file and linen from Britain’s safest prison in Belfast. Chasing him: an army forced by 12.000 policemen and…
I Want To Tell You Something
"I want to tell you something" is an emotional family story. While four-year-old Oskar has been deaf since birth, his twin brother Leo's hearing is perfect. Leo is being brought up bilingual, with sign language and…
Miss Universe 1929 - Lisl Goldarbeiter. A Queen In Wien
A film about the life of Lisl Goldarbeiter - the first and only Austrian Miss Universe - and her cousin Marci, who kept his camera trained on her throughout his life. A film about big-time fame and eternal love, set…
Night Shifts
They are not just awake; they live at night and with the night. Night Shifts is a portrait of an alternative world. The film follows the trails of people in Berlin who are invisible during the day, accompanying them on…
No Name City
In a Wild West setting, 30 km outside of Vienna, a handful of people attempt to realize their dream of living a life of self-determination. The ailing theme park No Name City was built five years ago and this group has…
Pharao Bipolar
Werner Ludvig Buchmayer is suffering of a bipolar disorder since he is 15. The film makers accompany him during his work on his own "Pharao film". PHARAO BIPOLAR documents his mental ups and downs.The inner diremption…
The Photographer In Front of the Camera
Photographer Erich Lessing, a member of the legendary photographic agency Magnum, is one of the most important photojournalists of the post-war era: His pictures of the Hungarian Revolution are contemporary documents…
The Ties that bind
Just as I thought that I could finally put my feelings for my parents and my origins to rest, my father decided to leave me his crumbling farmhouse. This stone inheritance is supposed to tie me again to the place where…
When It Blinds, Open Your Eyes
Zhanna and Lyosha are survivors. At the beginning of the 1990s when Russia was in turmoil, they became addicted to heroin. Today, Zhanna and Lyosha are a couple in their mid-thirties living in a cramped apartment in St.…
Wishing on a Star
A simple, but effective method to change your destiny by taking a trip on the day of your birthday.
Wolf Suschitzky - Photographer and Cameraman
Wolf Suschitzky is one of the most successful Viennese born directors of photography and photographers, who emigrated during World War II. The film is going to retell his life story. Particulary different from other…