This sensitive long-term documentary portrays the timid archeology student Sven who is one of the first pedophiles to face the camera without a pixelated face and distorted voice to openly talk about his difficult struggle against his forbidden desires. [imdb]Read More »
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Karl Kassbach, age 54, lives in Vienna and is the owner of a grocery shop. He can no longer communicate with his wife and his 18 year old son. He has an affair with the new apprentice, Liesi, and his inclination to brutality becomes more pronounced from meeting to meeting. But it is only among his jovial old friends who, like himself, are involved in the activities of the right-extremist organization, ‘Initiative’ tvonhat he feels really secure, the fascist characteristics which he acquired during his youth are here intensified: Together, the comrades go bowling, practice shooting, carry out attacks on guest workers and democratic clubs. During one of these ‘actions’, Kassbach shoots dead a journalist… The portrait of a petty bourgeois who was exposed to national socialism and is unable to cope with it.Read More »
At the end of World War II, Hungarian Jews are forced on a death march to the Austrian concentration camp Mauthausen. Only few civilians try to rescue them.Read More »
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Fresh out of a psychiatric hospital, Pia moves back in with her parents to get her life together. Torn between a new job, lovesickness, psychotropic drugs and social stigmatization, she emerges into a world where everything seems out of control.Read More »
The heroine of the title grows up. Slights, dance school, a cinema of glances, of tender moments, of trivial pop songs. A cinema which takes time, makes observations and which continuously finds or invents opposite picture sequences for loneliness and breaking free… (Written by Sixpack Film (Christian Cargnelli))Read More »
A former martial artist hired to train three wealthy Jordanian sisters finds her “dream job” turning unsettling as the isolated young women are under constant surveillance and show no interest in the sport. Why was she really hired?Read More »
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Austria, 1942: A deserter hides from his pursuers in the caves near a small mountain village. He only ventures outside at night to get food from his wife in the village. But the Gestapo and the local police are hot on the fugitive’s heels.
“In contrast to the fashionable bells and whistles and pleasing arts and crafts, in contrast to the average that is becoming more and more widespread in cinema, this quiet, dense “little” film is a feast for the eyes. Predominantly static shots, clear and simply structured black and white images remind us of what cinema actually is or should be about.” – (Süddeutsche Zeitung)Read More »
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Our Trip to Africa (German: Unsere Afrikareise) is a 1966 Austrian avant-garde short film by Peter Kubelka, originally commissioned as a travel diary documenting a wild game hunt. Kubelka used intricate editing strategies to produce a work about anti-colonialism.Read More »
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A short film originally intended to be a commercial for Schwechater Beer, but along the way it morphed into something completely different.Read More »