Arash T. Riahi

A life in a wheelchair is no reason for optimistic Eva-Maria to give up her biggest dream: To become a mother of her own child.

Mankind is unlikely to stop climate change, but it can adapt to the new, harder conditions.

LITTLE GERMANS combines animation and documentary film to tell the stories of children that are born into extreme right-wing families. From a young age on they are conditioned to hate everything that seems „foreign“.

This documentary comedy invites you into the lives and minds of two modern-day women on an “all or nothing” quest for a prosperous man.

Just a few years ago, an unconditional basic income was considered a pipe dream. Today, this utopia is more imaginable than ever before - intense discussions are taking place in all political and scientific camps.

Kinders is a playful portrait of children taking part in a musical education programme called ((superar)) and learning to deal with their lives through the power of music.

At the arenas of the Koridas - the century-old Bosnian bullfights - we get an unusual insight into a society that is struggling with forgiving each other their difficult past, in order to have a better future.

The Nicobars are a small archipegalo in the Indian Ocean, where one of the last indigenous people lived almost like in a time capsule for 900 years. When the Tsunami struck them in 2004 not only a third of their…

By following a successful businessman who plans and realizes shopping centers, we will find out how the real estate sector works and how enormous profits can be made by implementing and selling shopping centers. But…

What does the Occupy movement have in common with the Spanish Indignados or the Arab Spring? Is there a connection between the Iranian democracy movement and the Syrian struggle? And what is the link between the…

In the years 2000-2001 the director Arash T. Riahi filmed the inhabitants of a transitional residential home for homeless women, who, for various different reasons, fell through the cracks of our achievement-oriented…

This is the story of two generations of neo-Austrians - „darkheads“, as they call themselves - born and raised in Europe, but misfits nonetheless. Nazar, our 25-year old protagonist, an armed robbery suspect, is…

They gave the smugglers all their money and risk their life on their journey across borders: Three women from a small town in Moldavia, living now in Austria as cleaning women. On top of their hard job they live a life…

"The Folds of the King" is a documentary about simultaneous interpreters. Two interpreters sit in a booth. Using headsets, they listen to prerecorded English interview passages (these "originals" are inaudible to the…

A historical documentary about two of the last Saxons and Landlers shot in small Carpathian villages. In his garden a old man has spread out an old patched sheet. He wants to die there and be eaten by the animals. Fifty…

Nature is not what differentiates between chaos and structure, the observer does through his or her choice of point of view and representational technique. In the tradition of avant-garde film subduing chaos through…