Austria Movies

Experimental short based on a car ride.

A Spanish Fighting Bull gazes at us. A steady, strong gaze from the animal; a nervous, worried gaze from us, even as we sit on the safe side of the sc...

“This unwavering attitude as well as his decision to develop his own film style under and with financially difficult circumstances are the empowering...

Pezold is quite serious when she calls for a revolution of the eyes. In our depressingly digital day-in day-out, we have unlearned how to see; we mere...

Gloria is trying to find herself a man. With the help of a lonely-hearts agent she meets several candidates but the choice is easy.

JEWELS is an early example of the visual fascination of dark Vienna. The film was released in 1930 as one of the last silent films under the powerful...

A conflict between two sisters turns out in a dramatic finish

A young woman is fed up with the usual consumer's television and begins to make her own television, or more correctly, closevision. She is now a repor...

A surf trip from L.A. to Costa Rica is a classic free ride, executed by generations of surfers since the 1960's. When five landlocked Austrians get on...

Introduces the theory of the Viennese media scholar Rainer Maria Köppl that Bram Stoker was indirectly inspired by the figure of Princess Eleonore zu...

Voted for in the 2012 Sight & Sound poll

Film about the German-American computer science pioneer and social critic Joseph Weizenbaum, the emigrant and witness of the century, the storyteller...

Wolves hunt their prey in the valleys between high-ranging dunes, bears and lynxes wander through dense primeval forest, and the big lakes are a magne...

A family drama plays itself out in the contrasting light and shadows.

The protagonist wants to create something. Motivation generates an idea in his head, but when he starts to execute it, the doubts arise. The idea is d...

Matilda has been stuck in a memory loop, replaying the same moments over and over again. But this blissful act of remembering quickly turns into a com...

A special unit of the American President sets out to Finland to free mankind from Santa Claus.