Global soccer hero Thierry Henry stars in this up-close sports documentary that covers his 2010 move from Barcelona to the New York Red Bulls.

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…

Through his work at a morgue, an incarcerated young man trying to build a new life starts to come to terms with the crime he committed.

Although to the outside world he seems like the a perfectly normal insurance broker, Michael secretly keeps a 10-year-old boy, Wolfgang locked in a room in his soundproof basement.

Vargtimmen—After a Scene by Ingmar Bergman is the exact reconstruction of a scene in Bergman’s 1968 film of the same name. Frame for frame, Georg Tiller and his cameraman Claudio…

From time to time, when the weather is nice, George takes his family to the lake. Forced by a torn fan-belt he leaves them behind and ventures on an involuntary…

A surreal montage of science fiction films about the public image oft he robot, collected for the exhibition “Robot Dreams” at the Kunsthaus Graz and the Museum Tinguely, Basel.

Daniel commits his entire spare time to the search for aliens. For years he has been trying to contact aliens – without success until today. Also his latest experiment seems…

A spectacular production of Aida filmed at Bregenz Festival’s lakeside stage in 2009, with Carlo Rizzi conducting the Vienna Symphonic Orchestra and the Polish Radio Choir.

An Austrian feminist experiences a radical about-face when she marries a Yemenite named Khadher and converts to Islam.

Documentary about the life and works of legendary Austrian actor Karl Merkatz.

Initial a deep-sea diver is shown exploring a cave. Then a hand as shown handling a gastropod shell.

A multicultural satire about the German guest workers and numerus clausus refugees in Austria, about the mysterious tension between German prepotency and feelings of inferiority and about the clash of…

Depicting the biography of a corrupt banker poses a cinematic dilemma. How can the intentions of an individual systematic contexts and historical eventualities be brought into harmony? Thomas Furhapters nearly…

Otto Skorzeny was one of the most hidden in mystery ‘War artisans’ of Hitler. His commando operations (including the liberation of Mussolini from Gran Sasso) have significantly affected the course…

The Austrian musician and author Reinhold Bilgeri produced and directed the film, which is based on his 2005 historic novel of the same name. The events in the movie are…

A film woven around the idea that between early cinema and avant-garde film exists a connection.

A documentary about the life and career of the conductor Carlos Kleiber. Featuring interviews with Placido Domingo, Brigitte Fassbaender, Manfred Honeck, Michael Gielen, and others. On the 11th July 2004…

Animated film produced by Zagreb Film

Horst receives the monthly pension from his grandmother. The only problem is, that she is dead. As a local politician wants to congratulate the grandmother to her birthday Horst “borrows”…

About a pathologist with a complicated life. His problems with himself, his colleagues and patients who come down to him, dead or alive.

An unreservedly matter-of-fact look at two young women who consider prostitution an adventure until reality catches up with them.

“The rebellious voice, the split voice. The voice is suture, the voice is seam, the voice is cut, the voice is tear, the voice is my identity, it is not…

An Austrian documentary about the public employment service and its clients.

About the researcher Wilhelm Reich, who wanted to prove and compare life-energies in global experiments and searched for basic principles of life. His transformation from the model student Freud to…

A walk through the city of Vienna, that holds carefully collected impressions. The rhythm of the city depends on the switch of the traffic light.

The camera’s eye accompanies the successful Austrian author Josef Winkler and the audience in a poetic road movie, jumps in clips and reverse angles from the ‘hallowed stable’ in a…

Vienna the 1950s and 60s: it was not exactly an easy time for lesbians. The film is about how they lived, how they dressed and the places where they met….

Zombies and Vampires wanna destroy Vienna with bad music. They didn’t know that Vienna has the worst musicians on this planet. They strike back with Austro Pop and Austrian Volksmusic….

The search for the murderer of his father leads Robert Van Helsing to Vienna. There he meets Count Dracula and the beautiful girls Pia and Isabelle. Together they are fighting…

The inner lives of six people are explored. Each has a connection to the Viennese subway station Schottentor.

Sir André Previn, born in Berlin in 1929, figures among the most prominent musicians of the 20th and early 21st centuries. He won four Academy Awards for his film scores,…

Voices of the past are populating a ruinous mansion. A piano is playing, laughter and applause. In the midst of an invisible society the young mistress calls for a stranger….

A door opens, a cone of light falls into the room, then darkness again. As the door opens a second time, this time from the inside, two people slip out…

Itinerant handyman Alex is no stranger to life on the road. His life takes a sharp turn when Lili, a mysterious young hitchhiker obsessed with sex and suicide, appears in…

Featuring disco parking lots, Elvis impersonators and tough choices between personal happiness and responsibility for others, Elephant Skin combines its almost documentary grit with thick dialects and gentle stoicism to…

Luisa returns to her parents’ home when her father becomes bedridden. She’s expected to help her mother deal with the drudgery of caring for him, but their relationship is tense…

Leopold Wallisch, nick-named “Lemming”, was fired from the homicide department due to intrigues by his colleague Krotznig. Now he works for a small Viennese private detective agency and spies on…

At an altitude of 18,000 feet, Alaska’s Mount St. Elias is the destination for a trio of mountaineers determined to reach the mountain’s summit, and to ski back down as…

Set in a sleepy Austrian mountain village, ex-detective Simon Brenner has grown weary of his job repossessing cars and embarks on an extended getaway to the countryside. But before long…

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….

We enter a constructed setting, against the background of a video wall that suggests we are in a restaurant. A Japanese restaurant, as can be concluded from the conveyor belt…

Introduction of the 2008 Viennale.

Baron Goetz von Boyneburg offers an insight into his curious life. What is real, and what is made up on this aristocratic stage?

“In Search of Memory” is a very personal portrait of Eric Kandel, the “rock star” of neuroscience and the most important brain researcher of the 20th century. A fascinating documentary…

In the year 2001 the acclaimed violin vituoso Julian Rachlin founded a festival of chamber music in Dubrovnik. He introduced a new and successful concept of gathering some of the…

Think of a really nice person, a friend of yours, someone who could never hurt a fly. Imagine finding out that he is supposed to have killed someone. You’re told…

One year ago, Nina survived the attacks of a serial killer. She wants to flee from these memories but one call at night recalls all memories and she is again…

Let’s Make Money is an Austrian documentary by Erwin Wagenhofer released in the year 2008. It is about aspects of the development of the world wide financial system.

JUMP is a psychological drama revealing for the first time the extraordinary circumstances behind the unjust murder trial of the young Jew, Philippe Halsman, who would later become the most…

Ex-con Alex plans to flee to the South with his girl after a robbery. But something terrible happens and revenge seems inevitable.

A triple suicide derails the life of many people.

Documentary portrait of the actress Romy Schneider, in which director Frederick Baker tries to form an overall picture from the facets of image, myth, real life and screen persona.

A woman in her mid-forties goes on a journey to the country. She visits her mother, whom she hasn’t seen for quite a while. Of course, her father, who has…

The first film about Viktor Schauberger’s life’s work. A comprehensive survey of historical facts, current research and various practical applications into both technology and the natural world.

Ralf Benatzkys immensely popular operetta Im weissen Rossl premiered in Germany in 1930, followed by London the following year and Paris in the latter half of the decade. It made…

This film shot by Michael Pilz between 1964 and 2005 is a meditative documentary in which personal images can be read as the director’s way to liberation in the spirit…

An Austrian documentary, released in 2007.

In the experimental short film PART TIME HEROES film artists Mara Mattuschka and Chris Haring stage a ballet of vanities with retro flair. The search for fame elevator goes up…

A recording of Valie Export’s performance from the 2007 Venice Biennale, filmed with a laryngoscope camera inside her throat.

After her father unexpectedly loses his job, 16 year-old Jessica feels the need to do something – something drastic. Her whole life begins to rearrange itself. The “good life” doesn’t…

A cineastic meeting of two characters who are directly related to each other: Camera (Cinematographer) and Dancer. Both can define space/room, but only through interaction. They meet each other in…

Documentary film portraying the Austrian artist Paul Flora.

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…

Never at the sea.

Five people in their everyday surroundings tell stories that they have never experienced personally. They recount tales of people involved in trafficking in women. They tell of exploitation , violence…

When the beautiful, efficient and successful Christine, 42, arrives at their summer beach home with her husband and teenage daughter, a young hitchhiker catches her eye. What follows is the…

Seven people with problems and two therapists. Spending time in a lonely hut in the mountains. A whole week therapy which could be strenuous but healing. One person has an…

KOTSCH tells the story of four friends called Alf (Christoph Theußl), Boris (Andreas Kiendl), Chris (Michael Ostrowski) and Dalli (Michael Fuith), who grew up together in the small town Fohnsdorf…

What is Breakcore? Breakcore is the “bastard hate child” of jungle, happy hardcore, gabba, speedcore, drum ‘n’ bass, techno, IDM, acid, ragga, electro, dub, country, industrial, noise, grindcore, classical music,…

Hannes Brahms has lost his daughter in a super market, and is now searching the whole building for her.

An attempt to transform a Roman Western into a Greek tragedy.

Jannis, a cute, young gay man, and his adorable mute boyfriend, Patrick, infiltrate a circus to shoot an undercover documentary exposing an underground political conspiracy responsible for a recent spate…

Timo Novotny labels his new project an experimental music documentary film, in a remix of the celebrated film Megacities (1997), a visually refined essay on the hidden faces of several…

When Nina and her high school friends receive eerie text messages declaring that they will all die within three days, they dismiss it as a hokey prank – until one…

A village in Upper Austria. The sudden death of his mother drives ten-year old Wastl into isolation. His only friend is Franziska, a 16-year-old girl from a conservative, sober-minded family…

The documentary shows the exclusion of Jewish film makers after Hitler took power in Germany and how this led to an independent filmproduction in Vienna and Budapest from 1934 till…