Trains of Thoughts
An audio-visual essay, which reflects upon & compares metro systems around the world. It is an exploration of a world inside the world as well as feelings, fascination, obsession, fear…
The Horse on the Balcony
Roraima – Climbers of the Lost World
When friends and longtime climbing partners Kurt Albert, Holger Heuber and competitive climbing’s first superstar Stefan Glowacz embark on an expedition to Mount Roraima, a table mountain shrouded in legend,…
Michael
Azorian: The Raising of the K-129
In 1968 the Soviet ballistic missile submarine K-129 sank in the Central North Pacific. American intelligence located it within weeks of its demise. The CIA crafted a secret program to…
Tartarus
Austria-Hungary 1813: Two soldiers returning from the Napoleonic war encounter a creeping invasion in a remote mountain village that far exceeds their imagination – especially as the powerful enemy calls…
Tag und Nacht
Gangster Girls
Documents the daily routine in the only women prison in Austria.
Porno Unplugged
Journalist Fabian Burstein looks behind the curtains of the porn industry. Starting in Budapest he heads westwards to explore a new world on its victory march rooted deeply in Austria….
The Secret of Kells
Adventure awaits 12 year old Brendan who must fight Vikings and a serpent god to find a crystal and complete the legendary Book of Kells. In order to finish Brother…
The War on Drugs
More than three decades have passed since Richard Nixon declared the war on drugs. Today, drug trafficking exceeds 7% of global trade. The film shows how the war is being…
Schindler’s Houses
Both a beguiling meditation on the aesthetic of a city and a loving tribute to a great architect, Heinz Emigholz’s documentary examines urban Los Angeles through the houses of Austrian-American…
VERTIGO RUSH
Johann Lurf’s critical examination of the special effect of the “dolly zoom” – first used by Hitchcock in Vertigo – becomes a declaration of love to film and the richness…
Antares
Elsewhere
During the year 2000 Geyrhalter and his teams travelled to a different destination each month, looking for places untouched by the millennium hysteria. Locations include Niger, Finland, Micronesia, Australia, China,…
Blind Spot: Hitler’s Secretary
Documentarians Andre Heller and Othmar Schmiderer turn their camera on 81-year-old Traudl Junge, who served as Adolf Hitler’s secretary from 1942 to 1945, and allow her to speak about her…
Inter-View
A movie about the possibility to be happy—or about the impossibility of the same. A young man interviews people on the street. He asks them about the substance of their…
Outer Space
Hannah
R.I.P. Rest in Pieces: A Portrait of Joe Coleman
R.I.P Rest in Pieces is an intimate portrait of artist Joe Coleman, who is known around the world as a shamanic, moral voice diagnosing the ills of 21st century America….
Merry Christmas from Vienna
The Rake’s Progress
The Rebellion
The disabled ex-soldier Andreas Pum lost a leg for emperor and father land. After leaving the army he receives a license and a drehorgel. One day he gets into a…
Good News: Newspaper Salesmen, Dead Dogs and Other People from Vienna
This documentary, Ulrich Seidl’s full-length film debut, examines the lives of the street newspaper sellers in Vienna, a mixture of men from Turkey, India, Pakistan, Egypt and Eastern Europe, standing…
43/84 1984
Kurt Kren recorded the last television debate in the Reagan/Mondale election campaign. In the viewfinder, the television filled the entire picture, but the viewfinder did not match the lens entirely…
Anima – Symphonie phantastique
Casanova & Co.
While hiding from the royal authorities, Jacomo Casanova, the famous romancer, encounters his look-alike: Jacomino, a fugitive petty con man. Meanwhile, the Arabian Caliph and his wife are arriving in…
31/75: Asylum
A meadow, a lake, the silhouette of a hill, trees. 21 days of the same view in Saarland. 21 days with five different cut-outs in a mask before the camera,…
The Charm of La Bohème
Flowers from Nice
Prinz und Bettelknabe
Alexander Korda’s early German adaptation of Mark Twain’s historical fiction novel about two young boys who are born on the same day and identical in appearance but of very different…
Anita
Depicts the story of a society lady trapped under the spell of an unskilled hypnotist.