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…
MOVEMENTS OF A NEARBY MOUNTAIN
In a remote, abandoned industrial site near a centuries-old ore mine in the Austrian Alps, a self-taught mechanic runs a business exporting used cars to his native Nigeria.
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.
Cinema Futures
Cinema Futures is a time travel to the past and the possible futures of film and cinema.
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.
Wastecooking
According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization a third of all food produced worldwide is thrown away. How can we stop thiswaste? Author and cook David Gross goes on a road trip through Europe.
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
A Road to Mecca - The Journey of Muhammad Asad
At the beginning of the 1920's, the Jew Leopold Weiss takes a journey to the Middle East. The desert fascinated him, Islam became his new spiritual home. He left his Jewish roots behind, converted to Islam and started…
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…
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…
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…