Austria Movies

By means of a mirror, a 35mm camera films itself. After a conversion, it serves as a projector for the silent black-and-white film that was previously...

Nico was a musician, a model, muse, actress: an icon who evaded descriptions, broke expectations, and cultivated a self-destructive lifestyle. Karin F...

This documentary road movie features the international jazz big band Vienna Art Orchestra on its tour trough Europe and Canada. A search for the truth...

A reconstruction of the "concept film," which Gertrude Stein ("a rose is a rose is a rose") suggested to Charlie Chaplin in the 1920s. (E.S.jr.)

Their names are George, Inge, Jo, Sepp, Paula, Walo, Anita, Klaus and Klaus. They were acolytes, pupils, wards and foster home children, who were sexu...

Revisiting places and memories of Fatma Selek, the grandmother of the filmmaker, who came to Wels, Austria, in 1973 as a guest worker. Her interview f...

Fair winds and following seas shows states and conditions of #crossing(thesea),#travelling(home),#(conquering)expedition and #migrating. The images...

In an America where more and more women and trans people are losing legal bodily autonomy, the history of Bill Baird’s long fight for women’s right to...

Mrs. Pospisil lives alone in an apartment in an old building in Vienna. The elderly lady's increasing forgetfulness prompts her son to suggest that sh...

“The narrow passage or dangerous passage is a common motif in both funerary and initiation mythologies. I step inside and move through a corridor of e...

In this adaption of Louis Paul Boon’s novel, Hans Broich ingeniously questions an individual’s interpretational sovereignty and in this way, attacks t...

During a dinner with friends, Ari and Ronja test the limits of their open relationship.

"What could I tell you about the world I live in?" Addressing her unborn child, the narrator tries to find answers partly through claustrophobic pictu...

Portraying the personal experience of a fatal loss, the film seeks to verbalise the unspeakable. A journey through phantasmagoric realms, oscillating...

A poignant, erotic tale of forbidden love between two men set against the bustling backdrop of Istanbul's traditional hammams.

Like a single film frame, insects flash for a fraction of a second, only to immediately withdraw from the field of vision again.

Marko Doringer’s life is marked by recurring depressions. The filmmaker asks what expectations he wants to and can have of happiness under these circu...