Published by Federal Ministry Republic of Austria Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport

2020 Vienna Austria

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Federal Ministry Republic of Austria Division for Arts and Culture Film Department

Barbara Fränzen – Director Concordiaplatz 2 1014 Vienna Austria [email protected] www.bmkoes.gv.at

Editor Brigitte Mayr

Concept Carlo Hufnagl – Film Department

Translation Eve Heller Renée von Paschen

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INNOVATIVE FILM 8 Innovative Films Made in Austria AUSTRIA – Exploring Terra Incognita by Secretary of State Andrea Mayer

INTRODUCTION 13 Sources of Wonder by Jurij Meden

FACTS + FIGURES 18 Films Funded 2013–2019 19 Most Frequent Festival Screenings 2017–2020 20 Outstanding Artist Awards 2016–2020 20 Austrian Art Awards 2016–2020 21 Thomas Pluch Screenplay Awards 2016–2020

OUTSTANDING ARTIST 24 Ruth Kaaserer AWARDS 2019 27 Hannes Böck

AUSTRIAN ART 32 Martina Kudláček AWARD 2019

FILMS 40 Fiction 44 Documentary

55 Fiction Short 58 Documentary Short 62 Avant-Garde Short

FILMS IN PRODUCTION 71 Fiction in Production 80 Documentary in Production 110 Avant-Garde in Production

115 Fiction Short in Production 124 Documentary Short in Production 132 Avant-Garde Short in Production

SCHOLARSHIPS FOR YOUNG TALENTS 146 Start-Up Grants for Young Film Artists

PIXEL, BYTES & FILM 152 New Film Formats Funding Initiative

CONTACT ADDRESSES 160 Production Companies 161 Sales 161 Directors

INDEX 166 Films 167 Directors

168 Photo Credits innovative film austria ——— Innovative Films Made in Austria – Exploring Terra Incognita

One might think that it takes the effects of a pandemic to see with all clarity how indispensable the arts and culture are for our society. The performing and visual arts – including film as an artistic medium – are an integral part of our lives. The projects, events and institutions associated with these art forms also represent an important economic factor. Recent months have clearly shown how rapidly and easily our everyday life – both work and leisure – can be derailed, and our customary social fabric thrown off balance when arts and cultural events cannot be attended and experienced collectively.

The fact that filmmakers have reacted to the Covid-related restrictions in their own way is encouraging – and at the same time not surprising. For film and video artists, it is a daily practice and challenge to enter terra incognita in terms of both content and form. They take on changed perspectives, sense the unex­pected and integrate things that are irritating and sometimes disturbing into their artistic work. Their approach and their works of art invite us to rediscover our everyday lives. Film and video create images that may never have been seen before. They are capable of rearranging the familiar in order to provide new insights or tell new stories, provoking a possible change of perspective. The resulting, specific artistic strategies and approaches to that which is not expected offer the audience a wide range of opportunities to research, rethink and reassess our changed living and working conditions. Film and video can provide orientation in a time of increasing digitization of our society, a process that has only gained momentum due to the pandemic.

For many years, innovative Austrian films have been very successful worldwide with their incomparable visual signature. This is a fact that makes me extremely proud.

8__ 9 Introduction With this in mind, this Innovative Film catalog introduces the audience to a broad selection of new works created in the past year with the support of the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport.

The 15th edition of the catalog serves as an ambassador for innovative film-making across national borders in both analog and digital forms, actively contributing to its international visibility and dissemination.

I wish you an informative and inspiring read and many extraordinary terra incognita adventures at the cinema – the undisputed linchpin of film art.

With best wishes

Andrea Mayer

Secretary of State for Arts and Culture/Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport

English translation by Eve Heller

9 introduction ———— 12__ 13 Introduction Sources of Wonder Jurij Meden

From the perspective of an artist, the entire history of art is, to a significant ex- tent, a history of the organized support of the arts. From the perspective of the consumer of art, the entire history of art is, to a significant extent, a history of wonder. This wonder is of a kind only art can provide – it cannot be found, for example, in religion, food or sex. Innovative Film Austria stands at the threshold of an ancient cultural tradition: It generously caters both to the adventurous artist hungering to experiment with audiovisual media, as well as the adventur- ous viewer, hungry for wonder of a kind s/he hasn’t experienced before.

After he had relocated from Rome to Milan in 384, Saint Augustine encoun- tered Bishop Ambrose, a wise man responsible for Augustine’s eventual embrace of Christianity. In Confessions, Augustine remembers observing a peculiarly wondrous trait displayed by his beloved and respected mentor:

“I could not ask him questions I wished to ask, in the manner I wished to ask them, because so many people kept him busy with their problems that I was prevented from talking to him face to face. When he was not with them, which was never a very long time, he was reviving his body with the food it required or refreshing his mind with reading. When he read, his eyes scanned the page and his heart explored the meaning, but his voice was silent and his tongue was still. All could approach him freely and it was not unusual for visitors to be announced. So often, when we came to see him, we found him reading like this in silence – as he never read aloud. We would sit there quietly, for no one had the heart to dis- turb him when he was so engrossed in study. After a time we went away again, guessing that in the short while he was free from the turmoil of other men’s affairs and able to refresh his own mind, he would not wish to be distracted.”

Augustine met Ambrose well over 1,000 years before the European invention of printing technology, in 1450 AC. Despite the fact that children today continue to learn to read by reading aloud, it is still easy to forget – or, better yet, hard to imagine – that an act as simple as reading in silence wasn’t always as “natural” as we perceive it to be today. Back when books were a rare commodity and the ability to read a rare privilege, most people equated the technology of reading with vocalizing. Ambrose reading with a “silent voice” and “still tongue” was a source of profound wonder – even for an intellectual like Augustine who was al- ready a teacher himself back when he first met Ambrose.

13 Roughly 1,500 years after Augustine’s encounter, Chris Marker stirringly por- trayed Soviet master filmmaker Aleksandr Medvedkin in The Last Bolshevik and reported how the young Medvedkin joyously cried upon first discovering how placing two images together could produce a third meaning.

Medvedkin shed his tears of wonder at approximately the same moment in his- tory when people all over the world started escaping into the darkness of movie palaces en masse – millions cried in front of the silver screen and continue to do so to this day. Perhaps the technology of exhibiting moving images on big public screens never really drove any Parisians to leave the theater in fear of being run over by the train arriving at La Ciotat station (by now cinema’s “founding myth” has been entirely debunked). But the cinema did serve and still serves as a con- stant source of wonder – a source of tears and laughter. Hours spent in the dark- ness of a movie theater are hours of wonder, while occasionally punctured by an interval of tedium.

Thanks to Jean-Luc Godard’s iconic close-up of Anna Karina, and Abbas Kiarostami’s close-up of Juliette Binoche, it is easy to picture the face of a viewer glistening with tears in the darkened movie theater, illuminated only by the soft light reflecting off the silver screen. Now imagine the same face perusing moving images outside the sanctuary of cinema – in front of YouTube. Instead of a shadowy and sublime image of stillness and wonder, it is easy to picture the harshly lit face of someone picking their nose, masturbating, or nervously skipping through hundreds of streams: hours of tedium, occasionally punctured by an interval of wonder.

“Anyone who has wasted hours surfing the Internet knows that technology can encourage bad habits,” Ted Chiang laconically remarked in his 2013 story The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling. But on the same page, he conceded that the true benefits of (any) new technologies have yet to be discovered. We can be cer- tain of one thing: Having experienced two different technological standards only seems to provide an ideal perspective for evaluation and comparison. It doesn’t. I am not an authority on the subject compared to someone born into the age of new technological standards simply because I experienced the widespread migra- tion from analog to digital cinema and the subsequent widespread migration from cinema viewing to home streaming.

14__ 15 Introduction The true benefits of new technologies will only be discovered by generations that are unbiased and less judgmental, namely people who are perhaps already completely – and inevitably – transformed by these same new technologies.

We are standing at the edge of a precipice shifting before our very eyes, acceler- ated both by predictable factors such as commercial interests, as well as seem- ingly unpredictable events, such as viral pandemics. There is only one thing that remains certain: Whatever transformation or wonder lies beyond our horizon, it only can and hopefully will be facilitated by the persistence of progressive forces, such as Innovative Film.

Jurij Meden (b. 1977) is a Slovenian film scholar, writer, programmer and award-winning experimental filmmaker currently working as curator and head of the film program at the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna, while also serving as co-director of the Nitrate Picture Show and editor-in-chief of KINO! (www.e-kino.si). Meden previously worked as a curator at the George Eastman House and the Slovenian Cinematheque, and as adjunct professor of experimental film and video art at University of Nova Gorica School of Arts Department. In addition to his curatorial and filmmaking activities, Meden has written and co-written more than 250 publications on cinema.

Revised in English by Eve Heller

15 facts + figures ———— Films Funded

2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Fiction films 6 8 3 9 3 0 10 Documentary films 47 21 29 17 22 10 30 Avant-garde films 16 37 38 12 18 15 22 Full-length films 39 24 19 18 19 10 26 Short films 30 42 51 20 24 15 36 Total films 69 66 70 38 43 25 62

18__ 19 Facts + Figures Festival Screenings

Most Frequent Festival Screenings of Films Produced 2017–2020*

Number Director Film of festivals Thomas Renoldner don’t know what (2019) 77 Elsa Kremser, Levin Peter Space Dogs (2019) 56 Lukas Marxt Imperial Valley (cultivated run-off) (2018) 51 Johann Lurf ★ (2017) 43 Rainer Kohlberger keep that dream burning (2017) 32 Johann Lurf Cavalcade (2019) 29 Martin Reinhart, Virgil Widrich tx-reverse (2019) 29 Herwig Weiser Haus der Regierung (2018) 25 Siegfried A. Fruhauf Thorax (2019) 24 Rainer Kohlberger It has to be lived once and dreamed twice (2019) 20

*Deadline September 30th, 2020

19 Awards

The Film Department of the Arts and Culture Division bestows, upon recommendation of an expert jury, yearly or biennial Outstanding Artist Awards and an Austrian Art Award. The endowment of the Outstanding Artist Award (normally, two are given in different genres), comprises € 10,000 per award. Persons recommended for an Outstanding Artist Award must have produced at least three outstanding and innovative works. The endowment of the Austrian Art Award is in the amount of € 15,000. Persons recom- mended for an Austrian Art Award must have produced at least five innovative works that have been internationally recognized and reviewed.

Outstanding Artist Awards

2016 Susanne Jirkuff (avant-garde) Händl Klaus (documentary) 2017 Sudabeh Mortezai (documentary) Mona Willi (film) 2018 Katrina Daschner (avant-garde) Daniel Hoesl (fiction) 2019 Ruth Kaaserer (documentary) Hannes Böck (cinematographer) 2020 Antoinette Zwirchmayr (avant-garde) Sandra Wollner (fiction)

Austrian Art Awards

2016 Friedl vom Gröller-Kubelka (avant-garde) 2017 Brigitta Burger-Utzer (film) 2018 Siegfried A. Fruhauf (avant-garde) 2019 Martina Kudláček (documentary) 2020 Norbert Pfaffenbichler (avant-garde)

20__ 21 Facts + Figures Thomas Pluch Screenplay Award

This award is dedicated to Thomas Pluch (1934–1992), screenwriter, author, and co- founder of the ARGE Drehbuch (screenplay working group) – since 2002 the Drehbuch- verband Austria (Screenplay Association Austria). The Thomas-Pluch-Drehbuchpreis (initiated in 1992 by two writers) was first awarded in 1993. The goal of the award is to aid screenwriters in achieving the recognition they deserve, and to support talented young writers. The main award is endowed with € 12,000, the Thomas Pluch Special Jury Award with € 7,000, and the Thomas Pluch Award for Short or Medium-Length Fiction Films with € 3,000. Every year since 2004, international juries select the best screenplays realized as ­Austrian film productions. The award money is made available from the Film Department of the Arts and Culture ­Division, and the awards are presented in the context of the ­Austrian film festival Diagonale in Graz.

Thomas Pluch Screenplay Awards

2016 Main Prize: Elisabeth Scharang for Jack Special Jury Award: Stefan Hafner and Thomas Weingartner for Wenn du wüsstest, wie schön es hier ist Award for Short or Medium Length Feature Film: Maria Luz Olivares Capelle for Forest of Echoes 2017 Main Prize: Händl Klaus for Kater Special Jury Award: Monja Art for Siebzehn and Tizza Covi for Mister Universo Award for Short or Medium Length Feature Film: Nora Friedel for Mimikri 2018 Main Prize: Kathrin Resetarits for Licht Special Jury Award: Clemens Setz, Sebastian Brauneis, Nicholas Ofczarek for Zauberer Award for Short or Medium Length Feature Film: Timothy Bidwell for Der Ausflug 2019 Main Prize: Christian Frosch for Murer - Anatomie eines Prozesses Special Jury Award: Gregor Schmidinger for Nevrland Award for Short or Medium Length Feature Film: Albert Meisl for Die Schwingen des Geistes 2020 Main Prize: Johanna Moder for Waren einmal Revoluzzer Special Jury Award: Sandra Wollner for The Trouble With Being Born Award for Short or Medium Length Feature Film: Stefan Langthaler for Fabiu

21 outstanding artist award ———— OUTSTANDING ARTIST AWARD 2019 – DOCUMENTARY FILM

Ruth Kaaserer

Born in Kitzbühl, Austria in 1972, Ruth Kaaserer grew up in Munich. She studied sculpture at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts under Michelangelo Pistoletto. In 2001, she set up an exhibit in an abandoned country movie theater in Lower Austria together with Almut Rink. They subsequently released a book entitled Kino ohne Land – No place for a cinema, including texts about alternative cinema. Since 2002 Kaaserer has been traveling regularly to the USA where in 2014 she produced Tough Cookies, her first feature-length documentary film. Her documentary film Gwendolyn (2017) about weight lifter and retired Assyriologist Gwendolyn Leick, was widely screened at festivals and garnered numerous accolades. Kaaserer currently lives and works in Vienna.

Films (Selection)

2017 Gwendolyn (DCP, 85 min) 2014 Tough Cookies (DCP, 80 min)

Awards and Honors (Selection)

2019 Outstanding Artist Award – Documentary Film, Federal Chancellery of Austria 2018 Franz Grabner Award, Diagonale 2017 Erste Bank ExtraValue Film Award, Viennale

We have chosen to honor documentary filmmaker Ruth Kaaserer for the impressive maturity of her work up until now and the steady hand she exhibits in the choice and realization of her stories. In the making of her films, Ruth Kaaserer takes her very own time

24__ 25 Awards 25 to listen and to watch. Her finely woven dramaturgy creates living worlds inhabited by protagonists who teach us: Everything is a matter of attitude.

Kaaserer stages scenes in front of the camera with empathy, intelligence and a multi-facetted sensibility. In so doing, she has developed a style that combines documentary modes with a visual vocabulary familiar to us from fiction. The result is nothing less than: especially worth seeing!

JURY: KATRINA DASCHNER, GERALD KERKLETZ, ELISABETH SCHARANG

English translation by Eve Heller

26__ 27 Awards OUTSTANDING ARTIST AWARD 2019 – INNOVATIVE FILM

Hannes Böck

Born 1974 in Vienna. 1994–1996 apprenticeship in photography, Vienna; 1997– 2003 studies at Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, master class in Conceptual Art under Renée Green; studies at Berlin University of the Arts, Heinz Emigholz Experimental Filmmaking Class; 2005 graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, master class under Marina Grzinic; 2011–2014 senior artist at Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, in film and video.

Main fields of research include technologies of film and video production in art and experimental film, historical visual languages in narrative and experimental cinema, visual language in scientific image production. Discourses on film aes- thetics, visual studies and historical criticism provide central points of reference in Böck’s films and photo series.

Films (Selection)

2019 Sammlung Bau- und Schmuckstein Altes Rom (16 mm, silent, 15 min) 2013 5 Skulpturen (16 mm, silent, 9 min) 2012 Las Encantadas (16 mm, 10 min) 2011 Niches Cut Into Bedrock (16 mm, 10 min) 2008 New Hefei (16 mm, 10 min)

Prizes and Scholarships (Selection)

2019 Outstanding Artist Award – Innovative Film, Federal Chancellery of Austria 2009 Studio Scholarship Mexico City Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture, Austria 2006 Studio Scholarship Nanjing, China Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture, Austria 2004 Work Scholarship, Federal Chancellery of Austria

27 28__ 29 Awards The jury distinguishes Hannes Böck for outstanding achievement as cinematographer, film and image processor in the field of innovative film. Over the course of many years, his precise visual composition and editing work has contributed to the success of innumerable Austrian productions created by a wide array of artists including Antoinette Zwirchmayr, Con- stanze Ruhm, Dorit Margreiter and Florian Pumhösl. It is impossible to imagine the field of innovative film without Hannes Böck, and likewise, his sensitive way of understanding the most various of artistic pro- cesses. His consistently static images appear electri- fied. It is as if he breathes life into the surfaces, ar- chitecture and landscapes he films, capturing images that exhale an extraordinary calm and clarity that we encounter onscreen. Similarly, his montage work captivates by virtue of a slowness that instinctively finds the right rhythm, abstract images often seem- ing to communicate with one another as if engaged in a natural dialog.

JURY: KATRINA DASCHNER, GERALD KERKLETZ, ELISABETH SCHARANG

English translation by Eve Heller

29 austrian art award ———— Martina Kudláček

Born in 1965, Martina Kudláček lives in Vienna, working on film, video, photo­ graphy, and artistic research projects as well as archival projects. She received her MFA in Cinematography and Documentary Film Directing from the Film and TV Academy FAMU in Prague, Czech Republic. 1997–1998 Kudláček did a fellowship at the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne. 2017 she obtained a PhD from the Department for Theater, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna. Kudláček serves as screenplay writer, director, and often producer and camera person on her award-winning films, widely screened at international festivals, cinematheques, museums and universities. Her work focuses on biographies and the history of avant-garde film. Titles such as In the Mirror of Maya Deren (2001), Notes on Marie Menken (2005) and Frag- ments of Kubelka (2012) have become standard works integral to the teaching of film history. Between 2007 and 2012, Kudláček taught at FAMU in Prague and lectured internationally. In 2004, she was distinguished with the “Film Preservation Award” by Anthology Film Archives in New York, having worked on several projects with its director, Jonas Mekas. Additionally, Kudláček took part in archival projects for the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna, the Národní filmový archiv in Prague, the Theater Research Collection Schloss Wahn in Cologne, the Helnwein Archive, the Len Lye Foundation of New Zealand, as well as private collections. Her curatorial projects include important exhibitions at Fotogalerie Wien, as a founding member of the Collective, and since 2015 she has taken part in curatorial collaborations at the Jacobs Museum in Zürich, as well as curating the Maya Deren Exhibition in 2018 at documenta 14 in Kassel, Germany. Kudláček is currently working on a film about Austrian avant-garde filmmaker Kurt Kren and heading a project in collaboration with Anthology Film Archives to restore the Haitian film footage of filmmaker Maya Deren.

Films (Selection)

2012 Fragments of Kubelka (DCP, 232 min) 2006 Notes on Marie Menken (35 mm + DCP, 97 min) 2001 In the Mirror of Maya Deren (35 mm, 103 min) 1996 Aimless Walk – Alexander Hammid (16 mm, 50 min)

32__ 33 Awards 33 1995 L’amour fou – Ludvík Šváb (16 mm, 50 min) 1994 Positivita (S-16 mm, 40 min) 1997 The Last Heroes (16 mm, 30 min)

Prizes and Distinctions (Selection) 2019 Austrian Art Award – Film, Federal Chancellery of Austria 2017 Hubert Sielecki Award for Artistic Film, Austria 2008 Outstanding Artist Award for Film Art, Federal Chancellery of Austria 2004 Film Preservation Award, Anthology Film Archives, New York 2002 Dance Screen Award for Best Documentary, Monaco 2001 Vienna Film Award, Viennale 1996 Special Recognition Award Trilobit - by FITES, Prague 1995 Main Prize DokumentArt in Neubrandenburg, Germany Main Prize for Best Director FAMUfest, Prague 1994–95 VISIONS/European Documentary Film Workshop 1994 Special Recognition Award Trilobit – by FITES, Prague 1990 Carl Mayer Screenplay Award, Graz

Internationally acclaimed film director, screenwriter and film producer Martina Kudláček is singlehand- edly enriching the world of cinema with her invalu- able series of documentary films dedicated to some of the greatest artists of the 20th century, including avant-garde film pioneers Maya Deren and Peter Kubelka.

34__ 35 Awards A wonderful aspect of her contribution includes unsung work behind the scenes. Kudláček’s painstaking research has rescued filmic gems on the brink of turning to dust, including information and moments of beauty that shed a nuanced light on her subject, art history and world culture.

She has recorded countless hours of interviews for posterity with renowned scholars, filmmakers and other individuals contemporary to her subjects – many no longer with us – creating a treasure trove of primary source material for future archives.

In a day and age of funding increasingly driven by ignorance and short-sighted profit, Kudláček’s aesthetically crafted and highly informative documentary portraits communicate an understanding that will speak to future generations for ages to come, here in Austria and the rest of the world.

JURY: EVE HELLER, SIEGFRIED A. FRUHAUF, MARA MATTUSCHKA

English translation by Eve Heller

35 films ——— Ordinary Creatures Thomas Marschall

The Trouble With Being Born Sandra Wollner fiction ——— Ordinary Creatures Thomas Marschall

Austria “Keep your eyes on the road, your hands on the wheel.” English Martha and Alex should have taken Jim Morrison’s 4K CinemaScope 1:2.39 advice to heart. But during their drive through an idyl- Dolby SR 75 min lic landscape, they are primarily occupied with them- selves. Only when real life comes crashing into their Screenplay small self-involved world in the shape of a little dog and Thomas Marschall its grim owner, things start really happening – more Anna Mendelssohn than they could have asked for. A devious road movie Key Cast Anna Mendelssohn full of hefty surprises. Joep van der Geest Camera Martin Putz Thomas Marschall *1974 Vienna Austria Editor Stefan Fauland Films (selection) Fronteira Brasil (2010 short d) Faces of the Frontier (2010 d) Nekronautische Übungen (2007 short d) Producer Daniela Praher Production Daniela Praher Filmproduktion

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40__ 41 Fiction The Trouble With Being Born Sandra Wollner

Austria/Germany Elli is an android and lives with a man she calls her German (Eng sub) father. They drift through the summer together. They 2K 4:3 Dolby 5.1 swim in the pool during the day and at night he takes 94 min her to bed with him. She shares his memories and Screenplay Roderick anything else he programs her to recall – memories Warich, Sandra Wollner that mean everything to him but nothing to her. But Key Cast Lena Watson one night she sets off into the woods to follow a fading Dominik Warta echo … The story of a machine and the ghosts we all Ingrid Burkhard Camera Timm Kröger carry within us. Editor Hannes Bruun Sandra Wollner *1983 Leoben Austria Producers Lixi Frank Films (selection) Das unmögliche Bild (2016 f) David Bohun, Andi G Viktor (2015 short f) Uns geht es gut (2013 short f) Hess, Astrid Schäfer Viktoria Stolpe Timm Kröger Production Panama Film (AT) The Barricades ZDF – Das kleine Fernsehspiel Filmakademie Baden- Württemberg (DE)

Premiere February 2020 Berlinale – Berlin International Film Festival

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Davos Daniel Hoesl Julia Niemann

Gli appunti di Anna Azzori Constanze Ruhm

Glory to the Queen Tatia Skhirtladze Anna Khazaradze

Room Without a View Roser Corella

Der schönste Platz auf Erden Elke Groen

Sigmund Freud. Jude ohne Gott David Teboul

This Land Is My Land Susanne Brandstätter documentary ——— Bitte warten ... Pavel Cuzuioc

Austria An audiovisual allegory on communication – the film Romanian/Russian/ Please Hold the Line follows cable technicians in East- Bulgarian/Ukrainian/ ern Europe, as they visit their customers. Each client English (Eng sub) DCP 2K 1:1.85 they call on provides a glimpse into their own individual Dolby 5.1 universe. With so many tools for communication, we 86 min still inhabit a modern-day Tower of Babel: an ordered discordance of personalities and perspectives. Concept/Camera Pavel Cuzuioc Pavel Cuzuioc *1978 Republic of Moldova Editor Films (selection) Secondo Me (2016 d) Raisa (2015 short f) Samira Ghahremani Digging for Life (2011 d) Producer Pavel Cuzuioc Production Pavel Cuzuioc Filmproduktion

Premiere June 2020 Sheffield Doc/Fest International Documentary Festival

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44__ 45 Documentary Davos Daniel Hoesl, Julia Niemann

Austria Much of what drives our world becomes paradigmatic German/English/ in Davos: Farmers work as they did centuries ago, in French/Pashto/Russian/ contrast to a global elite that operates without being Portuguese/Italian (Eng sub) tied to a particular place – virtually without touching DCP 1:1.85 Dolby Stereo the ground. Davos is a film about our fractured world, 100 min about equilibrium and contrast in our society, about the impact of the powerful on the many. Concept Daniel Hoesl Screenplay Daniel Hoesl *1982 St. Pölten Austria Julia Niemann Films (selection) Winwin (2016 f) Soldate Jeannette (2013 f) Camera Andi Widmer The Madness of the Day (2011 short f) Editor Gerhard Daurer Julia Niemann *1987 Deggendorf Germany Producer Georg Aschauer Daniel Hoesl Julia Niemann Production European Film Conspiracy

Premiere April 2020 Visions du Réel International Film Festival Nyon (online edition)

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45 Gli appunti di Anna Azzori Constanze Ruhm

Austria The film refers to the Italian underground movie Anna German/Italian (Grifi/Sarchielli), which documents a few months in (Eng sub) the life of the homeless and pregnant girl Anna. The DCP 2K 1:1.85 color/b&w directors who she meets in Piazza Navona in the Spring Dolby Digital of 1972 offer her help. In exchange they make Anna 72 min the main character of a film project which oscillates between documentation and (re-)staging, empathy Concept/Producer and exploitation. Gli appunti di Anna Azzori is based on Constanze Ruhm Camera Anna’s “fictitious notes” and is conceived as a feminist Hannes Böck reply to Grifi’s and Sarchielli’s production. Jessyca R. Hauser Editors Constanze Ruhm *1965 Vienna Austria Hannes Böck Films (selection) Panoramis Paramount Paranormal – Three Constanze Ruhm Times a Film (co-director 2017 a-g) Kalte Probe (co-director 2013 f) Crash Site/My_Never_Ending_Burial_Plot (2010 f) Premiere February 2020 Berlinale – Berlin International Film Festival

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46__ 47 Documentary Glory to the Queen Tatia Skhirtladze, Anna Khazaradze

Austria/Georgia/Serbia During the Cold War, four legendary female chess Georgian/Russian/ players from Georgia revolutionized women’s chess Serbian/English across the globe and became Soviet icons of female (Ger/Eng sub) DCP color/b&w emancipation. The film reveals their interwoven bio­ stereo 82 min graphies and is both a rare look into the present lives of chess stars Nona Gaprindashvili, Nana Alexandria, Concept Tatia Skhirtladze Maia Chiburdanidze and Nana Ioseliani, as well as a Ina Ivanceanu chronicle of their lasting legacy. Camera Sebastian Thaler Editor Petra Zöpnek Tatia Skhirtladze *1976 Tbilisi Georgia Producers Films (selection) Illusion (2017 a-g) One Year (2014 short d) Karin Berghammer (AT) Anna Khazaradze, Nino Anna Khazaradze *1991 Tbilisi Georgia Chichua, Linda Jensen (GE) Films (selection) Kaba (2015 short f) Sarita Matijević (RS) Who is Shizuka Yokomizo? (2013 short d) Alexander Dumreicher- Ivanceanu (AT) Production berg hammer film (AT) 1991 Productions (GE) Playground produkcija (RS) Amour Fou Vienna (AT)

Premiere September 2020 CinéDOC Tbilisi International Documentary Film Festival

Contact berg hammer film 47 Room Without a View Roser Corella

Austria/Germany The film chronicles the dire reality of foreign domestic Arabic/French/ workers in Middle Eastern countries, such as Lebanon. By Amharic/Bengali combining a multitude of perspectives, it offers intimate (Eng sub) HD 16:9 insights into the private lives of employers, agents and Dolby SR maids. Exposing modern forms of slavery, it also reflects 73 min on the role of women and domestic work at large in capitalist societies. Concept/Camera Roser Corella Roser Corella *1978 Barcelona Spain Editors Films (selection) Grab and Run (2017 d) Prisoners of Kanun Ginés Olivares (2014 short d) Machine Man (2011 short d) Florian Kläger

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48__ 49 Documentary Der schönste Platz auf Erden Elke Groen

Austria There is a small town in Austria called Pinkafeld that German (Eng sub) gained adverse publicity as a “Nazi village” during the DCP presidential election of 2016, when a majority of its Dolby Digital 5.1 87 min citizens voted for their famous neighbor, the right-wing candidate Norbert Hofer. What do people really think Concept/Camera in regard to their homeland, refugees and populism? Elke Groen The Most Beautiful Place on Earth shows a society in Editor transition, a microcosm reflecting Europe’s zeitgeist. Stephan Bechinger

Producers Elke Groen *1969 Gmunden Austria Arash T. Riahi Films (selection) Bojo Beach (2017 short d) Sabine Gruber Optical Sound (co-director 2014 a-g) NightStill (2007 a-g) Elke Groen Production Golden Girls Filmproduktion groen.film

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49 Sigmund Freud. Jude ohne Gott David Teboul

Austria/France Sigmund Freud developed psychoanalysis in turn-of-the- German century Vienna, where he continued to practise until DCP Dolby Digital 1938, when he was forced into exile and escaped to 97 min London. An intimate portrait – told from the perspec- Concept David Teboul tive of his daughter Anna and based on Freud’s corres­ François Prodromidès pondence and writings – A Jew Without God is also a Voices Johannes questioning of “home” and “Jewish identity.” Previously Silberschneider unpublished archival footage presents one of the most Birgit Minichmayr th André Jung influential figures in the 20 century not only as a keen Camera Martin Roux thinker, but also as a private person in many facets. Editor Caroline Detournay David Teboul *1967 Paris France Films (selection) mon amour (2019 d) Producers Bardot, la méprise (2014 d) Richard Copans Boris Mikhailov, I’ve Been Here Once Before (2009 d) Ebba Sinzinger Anne Cohen-Solal Vincent Lucassen Production WILDart FILM (AT) Les Films d’Ici (FR) Arte France (FR)

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50__ 51 Documentary This Land Is My Land Susanne Brandstätter

Austria “What the hell happened to my country?” After Donald English (Ger/Eng sub) Trump’s election, this is a burning question to the DCP American filmmaker who’s lived most her life in Austria. Dolby 5.1 105 min With the critical distance of a European and an insider’s eye, she gets close to some Trump voters in Ohio: Concept a microcosm of a deeply divided USA. Following the Susanne Brandstätter golden rule “don’t argue, listen ...,” the documentary Camera explores polarization and why people stick to Joerg Burger Editors their political opinions – no matter what. So the film Susanne Brandstätter is a plea for an objective, yet courageous debate. Michaela Müllner Sound Design Susanne Brandstätter *Los Angeles USA Wolf-Maximilian Liebich Films (selection) The Future’s Past – Creating Cambodia (2012 d) Rule of Law (2006 d) Checkmate – Strategy Producer of a Revolution (2004 d) Susanne Brandstätter

Premiere September 2020 BelDocs Belgrade International Documentary Film Festival

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51 Casting Tapes Ulrike Putzer Matthias van Baaren fiction short ——— 54__ 55 Fiction Short Casting Tapes Ulrike Putzer Matthias van Baaren Casting Tapes is a filmic picture puzzle: a theatrical film about an actress on the one hand, and a documentation about acting on the other.

Ulrike Putzer *1982 Vienna Austria Films (selection) Hände zum Himmel (co-director 2013 short d) Elephant Skin (co-director 2009 short f)

Matthias van Baaren *1977 Vienna Austria Films (selection) Hände zum Himmel (co-director 2013 short d) Die Falten des Königs (2011 short d)

Austria German (Eng sub) HD 16:9 stereo 23 min

Concept/Producers Ulrike Putzer Matthias van Baaren Key Cast Lisa Furtner Naemi Latzer, Sandra Lipp Camera Harald Traindl Editor Nooran Talebi

Premiere July 2020 Vienna dotdotdot – Open Air Short Film Festival

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55 Am Gang Claudia Dermutz

Children’s Film Amina Handke

Fahren Veronika Barnaš

Was eine Familie leisten kann Sybille Bauer documentary short ——— Am Gang Children’s Film Claudia Dermutz Amina Handke

Am Gang is a film about the communal The story of the first three or four years in a stairs and hallways of an apartment child’s life and its key moments, told from building. Or rather, about its inhabitants. It a child’s perspective. A central aspect of shows what a silent onlooker in the hallways early childhood, nonverbal communication of a house might notice about the life of and its gradual broadening into language, is the building’s residents. Moments of the conveyed by filmic means, by accompanying tenants’ lives are captured (in image and a child and its development, its interaction in sound) that are felt in the peripheral with its environment. We experience the space of the hallways and make up its child’s first utterances, moods, emotions character. Scraps of thought, associations, and needs. Long-term observation reveals interpretations and expanding on them – some special features of this period of life. that is the focus of the film. Amina Handke *1969 Berlin Germany Claudia Dermutz *1978 Friesach Austria Films (selection) Academy Album. A Guide in Films (selection) 30 some things (2012 short d) 52 Miniatures (a-g, d 2018) Mother of Mother 3 Stockwerke lang (2010 a-g) (2015 short d) Hysteria 2.0.0 v01 (2014 a-g) Ohne Einander (2008 short f) Appropriated Beggars (2013 multichannel a-g)

Austria Austria German (Eng sub) German (Eng sub) HD 16:9 2K 1:1.85 color/b&w Dolby Stereo Dolby SR 27 min 25 min Concept Amina Handke Concept Claudia Dermutz Camera Leena Koppe Camera David Auner Binsar Panjaitan Editor Christin Veith Editor Oliver Neumann Amina Handke Producer Christine Ajayi Producers Oliver Neumann Sabine Moser Contact Production FreibeuterFilm Claudia Dermutz Contact FreibeuterFilm

58__ 59 Documentary Short Fahren Was eine Familie leisten Veronika Barnaš kann Sybille Bauer

Riding follows the production and operation A seemingly happy family crumbles under of the temporary spectacle that is the fair the weight of keeping up appearances: The over the course of one season in present- mother – a young, attractive, social climber day Austria. It provides insight into the – is overburdened. The father – eloquent, a mechanisms of the fairground – the rides good provider and soulmate – withdraws into and their mechanical aesthetics, and the himself when he is diagnosed with Parkin- travelling showpeople’s work in front of and son’s disease. The child – author and director behind the scenes of the fair. Movements of of the film – starts to exhibit “problematic” the showpeople, their rides, and the visitors behavior early on. She is the one in the fam- constitute the film’s central theme. ily who exhibits symptoms of the family’s dysfunction. The memories about this girl tell Veronika Barnaš *1978 Vienna Austria of emotional abuse and childhood isolation while looking toward an unwritten future. Austria German (Eng sub) Sybille Bauer *1989 Linz Austria HD 16:9 Films (selection) Kein halbes Leben (2018 d) Dolby SR My condition is good but temporally limited. 30 min (2016 short d) Mariedl (2014 short d) Concept/Camera/Producer Veronika Barnaš Austria Editor German (Eng sub) Karin Hammer HD 1:1.85 Music b&w Bernhard Hammer Dolby SR 30 min Premiere July 2020 Vienna Concept/Producer Sybille Bauer dotdotdot – Open Air Short Film Festival Camera Judith Benedikt Klemens Koscher Contact Editor Lisa Zoe Geretschläger Veronika Barnaš Sales sixpackfilm

59 2551.01 Norbert Pfaffenbichler

All the Stops Josef Dabernig

Filmkorrespondenz Manfred Schwaba Antoinette Zwirchmayr

Pomp Katrina Daschner

A proposal to project in Scope Viktoria Schmid

Tovo Thomas Steiner

We have more than beds to dream in Bernd Oppl

Where Is Lotte? Petra Zöpnek avant-garde short ——— 2551.01 All the Stops Norbert Pfaffenbichler Josef Dabernig

This aesthetically and substantively bleak Mansion – church – hairdressers, mansion – experimental film plays host to a cast of church – bar, mansion – church – cemetery. masked actors in strictly window-less In the rhythm of household chores and interiors. The nightmarish story establishes social engagements, a musician works her an uncanny and threatening atmosphere. way, conducting a handful of helpers like The film borrows upon various surrealist her own little chamber orchestra. avant-garde films, as well as classical science fiction and horror movies. Josef Dabernig *1956 Kötschach-Mauthen Austria Norbert Pfaffenbichler *1967 Steyr Austria Films (selection) Heavy Metal Detox (2019 a-g) Films (selection) Invest in Failure (2018 f, a-g) Stabat Mater (2016 a-g) A Messenger From the Shadows (2013 f, a-g) Zlaté Piesky Rocket Launch (2015 a-g) Mosaik mécanique (2007 a-g) Austria Austria No dialog No dialog DCP 1:1.85 4K 4:3 5.1 Dolby Stereo 16 min 62 min Concept/Editor Concept/Editor/Producer Josef Dabernig Norbert Pfaffenbichler Camera Christian Giesser Key Cast Music Christoph Herndler Stefan Erber Sound Design Michael Palm David Ionescu Camera Producer Josef Dabernig Martin Putz Co-Producer steirischer herbst ’20 Editor Norbert Pfaffenbichler Premiere September 2020 Paranoia TV, steirischer herbst ‘20 Sales sixpackfilm Contact Josef Dabernig

62__ 63 Avant-Garde Short Filmkorrespondenz Pomp Manfred Schwaba Katrina Daschner Antoinette Zwirchmayr From the spring of 2018 to the spring Pomp is the eighth part of a series based on of 2019, Austrian filmmakers Manfred Arthur Schnitzler’s Traumnovelle. Circular Schwaba and Antoinette Zwirchmayr – who choreography, the dome of the sound stage up to this point had maintained a faithful, in Düsseldorf, a heavenly ceiling resembling intense “letter friendship” – switched to the firmament and universe: The pompous an unusual, artistic and intense method of circular choreography mixes with heavenly communication. Their letters adopted the projections. Finger dances in gold satin form of short analog films, shot on silent gloves, brimming carafes of champagne 16 mm, edited mostly “in camera,” to be in pyramidal cones, performers in cat- (hand-)developed by the receiver rather than suits who emerge from the same colored by the sender. (Neil Young) background. Everything turns. Pure pomp.

Manfred Schwaba *1973 Vienna Austria Katrina Daschner *1973 Bad Kissingen Germany Films (selection) 52 Films or: My First Garden Films (selection) Plum Circus (2019 a-g) (2017 a-g) Tagebuch bis erster Schnee (2017 a-g) Pfauenloch (2018 a-g) Pferdebusen (2017 a-g) Atlantic35 (2016 a-g) Austria Antoinette Zwirchmayr *1989 Oberndorf Austria No dialog Films (selection) The Shadow of Utopia (2018 DCP 2K flat a-g) Josef – My Father’s Criminal Record (2016 d) stereo The Pimp and His Trophies (2014 d) 8 min

Austria Concept Katrina Daschner No dialog Camera Hannes Böck 16 mm Editors Hannes Böck b&w Katrina Daschner 60 min Producers Katrina Daschner Realisation Anna Spanlang Antoinette Zwirchmayr Production Lady Chutney Production Manfred Schwaba Premiere May 2020 Contact International Short Film Festival Oberhausen Manfred Schwaba Antoinette Zwirchmayr Sales sixpackfilm

63 A proposal to project in Tovo Scope Viktoria Schmid Thomas Steiner

In a cinema the screen needs to become Tovo is an animated film which makes ex- invisible in order to serve as a window to the perimental use of analog and digital tech- world. In Viktoria Schmid’s series A proposal nologies, going beyond the usual constricts to project, the screen is allowed to fulfill a of the genre. A hiking path is repeatedly different purpose. It is the main protagonist. followed, and interventions in the form of The screen in Scope-format is set up at the drawings are imposed on certain landmarks. Curonian Split’s seashore, in Lithuania, in a Abstract images come into being with the landscape corresponding with the qualities help of recapitulation and superimposition. of the screen’s wide-screen-format. The film The film formulates visual concepts and in- shows the screen for the duration of one day: vites us to take part in this thinking process. The sun and trees perform a subtle interplay of light and shadow while the sea and wind Thomas Steiner *1956 Wels Austria create the surround sound of the 35 mm film. Films (selection) Fluide (2018 a-g) Lap of Luxury (2016 a-g) Theresia (2013 a-g) Viktoria Schmid *1986 Neuhofen/Ybbs Austria Films (selection) W O W (Kodak) (2018 a-g) Austria A proposal to project (in 4:3) (2016 a-g) No dialog It’s a Dance (2014 a-g) DCP 2K flat color/b&w stereo Austria 8 min No dialog 35 mm CinemaScope 1:2.35 Realisation Dolby Digital Thomas Steiner 8 min Music Concept/Editor Viktoria Schmid Werner Puntigam Camera Vilius Mačiulskis Premiere October 2020 Premiere January 2020 Crossing Europe Linz International Film Festival Rotterdam Sales Sales sixpackfilm sixpackfilm

64__ 65 Avant-Garde Short We have more than beds Where Is Lotte? to dream in Bernd Oppl Petra Zöpnek

The setting for this film is provided by a mod- Homage to Lotte Hass (1928–2015), the el of a waiting room, resembling what one “first lady of diving.” This experimental film might encounter in an airport. A black cloud is a memorial leap. Underwater models begins to spread out in the waiting room. stand in for Lotte, or rather: They jump in for It is ink that mixes in with the model in the her. They jump into the Old Danube and go water. The chaotic process of its diffusion searching, in a state of floating, before they meets with the organized structure of the rise again, transformated, in the Red Sea. waiting room, gradually dissolving it entirely. Their body parts and limbs flicker, become blurred. The movements of all the divers, of Bernd Oppl *1980 Innsbruck Austria water, air and mysterious plants turn into a Films (selection) Substanzaufnahme collective action. (co-director 2016 a-g) Hotel Room (2011 short f) Flock (2010 short f) Petra Zöpnek *1969 Vienna Austria Films (Selection) Mädchen in Rot und Gold Austria (2006 a-g) No dialog DCP 2K stereo Austria 6 min No dialog DCP Realisation b&w Bernd Oppl Dolby 5.1 9 min Music Andreas Kurz Realisation Petra Zöpnek

Premiere March 2020 Kunsthalle Graz Key Cast Underwater models, Old Danube as part of Diagonale’20 – The Unfinished and Red Sea (online) Music GIL CHÉRI (= Gilbert Handler, Petra Zöpnek) Sound Design Gilbert Handler Contact Bernd Oppl Premiere September 2020 Varna, Bulgaria In the Palace - International Short Film Festival

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65 films in production ——— Beatrix Milena Czernovsky Lilith Kraxner

Die brennende Nacht Johannes Hammel

Folgenlos – A Film Without Consequences Jakob Brossmann

Soldat Ahmet Jannis Lenz

Sparschwein Christoph Schwarz

Swimming Pool Filip Antoni Malinowski

Verabredung im Herbst Sebastian Brauneis fiction in production ——— 70__ 71 Fiction in Production Beatrix Milena Czernovsky, Lilith Kraxner

Austria Beatrix ends up spending the summer alone in a house. German/English Unobserved for the first time, she starts observing (Eng sub) herself and is confronted with her intimacy but also her 16 mm DCP 1:1.33 Dolby Surround insecurities. While different characters enter and leave approx. 95 min the world she created for herself, she begins to let go of societal expectations and allows herself to follow her Screenplay/Editors impulses. We see Beatrix between boredom, amuse- Milena Czernovsky ment and loneliness accompanied by the unfolding Lilith Kraxner Key Cast Eva Sommer drama of everyday situations. Katharina Farnleitner Marthe de Crouy-Chanel Milena Czernovsky *1993 Graz Austria Camera Lilith Kraxner *1995 Pichling Austria Antonia de la Luz Kašik

Producers Lara Bellon Milena Czernovsky Lilith Kraxner

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71 Die brennende Nacht Johannes Hammel

Austria The Burning Night is an experiment with dolls and German actors, presenting an elderly homeless man suffering 4K+S-8 mm from complete memory loss as he pursues his color/b&w stereo/mono doppelganger. All that he can find of the unknown approx. 75 min man is an old suitcase with an id card, an audiotape machine and the recordings of his diary. As if under Screenplay the spell of a daydream, the homeless man starts to Johannes Hammel take on the identity of his doppelganger: The homeless Key Cast Nikolaus Habjan man dreams himself up. He dreams of the wife he Karl Fischer has lost, he watches her together with her new lover. Susi Stach He dreams of old business trips and his past life.

Realisation Johannes Hammel *1963 Basel Switzerland Johannes Hammel Films (selection) Buildings (2015 a-g) Rooms (2013 a-g) Folge mir (2010 f) Production hammelfilm

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72__ 73 Fiction in Production Folgenlos – A Film Without Consequences Jakob Brossmann

Austria/Germany On the set of a fiction film, the team struggles with German/French/English the provoking theses of writer Friedrich von Borries: (Ger/Eng sub) Humans, and especially artists, should strive for 2K+4K 1:1.85 Dolby SR a life without consequences. A film about ecology, approx. 73 min revolution, the power of art, the beauty of failing and a farewell to success. Screenplay Friedrich von Borries Jakob Brossmann *1986 Vienna Austria Jakob Brossmann Films (selection) Gehört, Gesehen (2019 d) Lampedusa in Key Cast Albert Meisl Winter (2015 d) #unibrennt – Bildungsprotest 2.0 (2010 d) Katharina Meves Milo Rau Camera Fabian Spuck Serafin Spitzer Editor Lisa Zoe Geretschläger

Producers Clemens Schaeffer Friedrich von Borries Jakob Brossmann Production Finali Film & Wortschatz Produktion (AT) NFP* (DE)

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73 Soldat Ahmet Jannis Lenz

Austria Ahmet slides between worlds – as a professional sol- German/Turkish dier in the Austrian army, national champion in boxing (Eng/Ger sub) and son of Turkish immigrants, he tries his hand at HD 16:9 Dolby Stereo the world of drama. Giving free rein to his emotions approx. 75 min turns out to be more difficult for Ahmet than expected. ­Soldier Ahmet is a film that wanders between the worlds Concept of documentary and fiction – just like its protagonist. Jannis Lenz Key Cast Jannis Lenz *1983 Filderstadt Germany Ahmet Simsek Films (selection) Battlefield (2020 a-g) Camera Wannabe (2017 short f) Schattenboxer (2015 f) Jakob Fuhr Editors Jannis Lenz Roland Stöttinger Nooran Talebi

Producers David Bohun Lixi Frank Production Panama Film

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74__ 75 Fiction in Production Sparschwein Christoph Schwarz

Austria The filmmaker Christoph Schwarz is broke. Might he German/English artistically exploit this emergency situation and shoot a (Eng sub) documentary chronicling how he goes on a money strike 2K+4K 1:1.85 Dolby Digital for a year? But what should he do about the director’s approx. 70 min fee to which he is entitled? Should he throw it into a campfire and let it burn in a bold anti-capitalistic gesture Concept or should he buy a vacation house in Austria’s Wald­ Christoph Schwarz viertel after all? Piggy Bank is a self-ironic meta-docu- Camera Georg Geutebrück mentary about the economic potential of a money strike. Christian Schwab Marie-Thérèse Zumtobel Christoph Schwarz *1981 Vienna Austria Editor Films (selection) Die beste Stadt ist keine Stadt (2019 short d) Christian Schwab CSL (2018 short d, f) LDAE (2017 short d, f)

Producer Christoph Schwarz Production ARGE Schwarz

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75 Swimming Pool Filip Antoni Malinowski

Austria/Poland/ After the sudden separation from her boyfriend Marek, Germany conscientious Polish lifeguard Julia (30) finds refuge Polish/German and meaning in life in a patriotic militia. She quickly (Eng sub) 4K 1:1.85 becomes a leader in the male-dominated association, Dolby SR but at the same time has to realise that the gap approx. 95 min between the actions of the troop and her moral values is constantly growing ... Screenplay Filip Antoni Malinowski Filip Antoni Malinowski *1982 Poznań Poland Key Cast Jasmina Polak Films (selection) Guardians of the Earth (2017 d) Mateusz Król Resettlement (2012 d) Konrad Stein Editor Frank Brummundt

Producers Jürgen Karasek, Filip Antoni Malinowski Marcin Wierzchosławski Gregor Streiber Friedemann Hottenbacher Production Soleil Film (AT) Metro Films (PL) Inselfilm (DE)

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76__ 77 Fiction in Production Verabredung im Herbst Sebastian Brauneis

Austria The opposite of “good” is “well-meant.” An Autumn German/English/ Rendezvous is a film about love and its moods of French departure. A film of great longing about great longings. (Eng/Ger sub) 2K+4K 1:1.85 A melodrama about the little lies in relationships Dolby Digital that are supposed to “protect” the other person approx. 109 min from being hurt, but which in reality arise from one’s own cowardice and only make things worse. And yet, Screenplay everyone is left with a smile in the end. Sebastian Brauneis Key Cast Marlene Hauser Sebastian Brauneis *1978 Vienna Austria Julia Franz Richter Films (selection) 3Freunde2Feinde (2020 f) Zauberer (2017 f) Lukas Watzl Shadows – Cien w futrach (2008 short f) Camera Sebastian Brauneis Editors Antonia Adelsberger Sebastian Brauneis

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77 Alterlaa – 27 Storeys The Life of Sean DeLear Bianca Gleissinger Markus Zizenbacher

Auf der Suche nach Mirrors der gestohlenen Zeit Alireza Ghanie Konrad Wakolbinger My Room Aus der Wunderwelt Monika Stuhl Alice Durst Christian Neubacher Nur ein Augenblick Joerg Burger Before I Die Juri Rechinsky Order in Chaos – Chaos in Order Pavel Cuzuioc Carla Lonzi – Ein Porträt zweiter Ordnung Paraísos Constanze Ruhm Clara Trischler

Dariush Read My Breasts Luise Müller Anja Salomonowitz

Dreaming Dogs and Barking Men Rösl’s Suitcase Elsa Kremser Elizabeth Lennard Levin Peter Stories From the Sea Endphase Jola Wieczorek Hans Hochstöger Tagebuch eines Optimisten Eva-Maria Rainer Frimmel Lukas Ladner Tizza Covi it works 20 Die Tagträume des Nikolaus Habjan Fridolin Schönwiese Johannes Hammel

Just Be There Vor dem Verschwinden/Izginjanje Caspar Pfaundler Andrina Mračnikar

Krai Zusammenleben Aleksey Lapin Thomas Fürhapter

Kurt Kren Zwischennutzung Martina Kudláček Dariusz Kowalski

Left to Die sebastian j. f. documentary in production ——— Alterlaa – 27 Storeys Bianca Gleissinger

Austria/Germany My return to utopia. Alterlaa is a sentimental film with German a regional background: A look behind the scenes of HD 16:9 the mystified microcosm in the ambitious Alterlaa Dolby Stereo approx. 90 min housing project in Vienna, an object of controversy for 40 years. What’s the truth behind it all? Is it a success Concept story, or has it driven people around the bend? We can Bianca Gleissinger only shrug our shoulders since we know both are true. Camera Klemens Koscher Bianca Gleissinger *1990 Vienna Austria Editor Kai Eiermann

Producer Ralph Wieser Production Mischief Films (AT) Egoli Tossell Film (DE)

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80__ 81 Documentary in Production Auf der Suche nach der gestohlenen Zeit Konrad Wakolbinger

Austria In Search of the Stolen Time: How have our modern German concepts of working hours and temporality developed 2K 1:1.85 in mutual interaction since the Middle Ages? The stereo approx. 90 min idea that “time is money” is both ever-present and unquestioned. The film discusses how and why this Concept formula has become so powerful, and what it does to Konrad Wakolbinger us as individuals and as a society. Camera Martin Putz Konrad Wakolbinger *1969 Wegscheid Germany Films (selection) Wir sind die Mutanten (2013 d) Producers Oliver Neumann Sabine Moser Production FreibeuterFilm

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81 Aus der Wunderwelt Alice Durst, Christian Neubacher

Austria Two filmmakers follow the footsteps of a journey: a film German/English about a trip into the past. In 1827 a giraffe was captured (Eng sub) in Nubia and shipped to Venice via Cairo. From there it HD Dolby Stereo made its way to Vienna on foot, setting off an outright approx. 105 min giraffe-mania in the Imperial capital. Out of a Wondrous World: Historical paintings, letters and newspaper Realisation ­articles guide the filmmakers along their way, the film Alice Durst emulating illusion-producing technologies of times past Christian Neubacher – a game and a dance with the times ensue. Completion 2021 Alice Durst *1973 Vienna Austria Contact Films (selection) Fluchtschicht (2012 a-g) Arena (2008 a-g) Christian Neubacher autoconstruction city (co-director 2006 a-g)

Christian Neubacher *1972 Salzburg Austria Films (selection) Optical Sound (co-director 2014 a-g) East Man (2009 a-g) Muß ma immer lachen (2002 short d)

82__ 83 Documentary in Production Before I Die Juri Rechinsky

Austria On fathers and sons: a road movie about 40-year- Ukrainian (Eng sub) old Grisha, who takes his 80-year-old father, Ivan, 2K Digital who ­never was abroad, on a car trip from Krivoy Rog, Dolby Stereo approx. 90 min Ukraine, through Central Europe, in search for the grave of Ivan’s father. Grisha recently found out that his Concept/Editor grandfather, counted as missing in combat since Ivan Juri Rechinsky was one year old, died in a Nazi labour camp in territory Camera of today’s France in 1944, together with 22,000 other Angelika Spangel Ukrainian prisoners of war. Before I Die deals with the Producers difficulties of overcoming the fear of your parents dying Florian Brüning and how to make peace with them. Thomas Herberth Production Juri Rechinsky *1986 Turkmenistan Horse&Fruits Films (selection) Ugly (2017 f) Sickfuckpeople (2013 d) Filmproduktion Why so Happy (2012 short d) Completion 2021

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83 Carla Lonzi – Ein Porträt zweiter Ordnung Constanze Ruhm

Austria This film – A Second-Order Portrait – is part of a German/Italian/French planned series dedicated to the history and present of (Eng sub) feminism(s). It focuses on Italian author and feminist 4K 1:1.85 color/b&w Carla Lonzi and on her role as one of the leaders of the Dolby Stereo Italian feminist revolt in the 1970ies and 1980ies. At approx. 100 min the core of its narrative resides an unfinished project of Lonzi which was interrupted by her untimely death Concept in 1982, and which the film wants to revisit in order to Constanze Ruhm Key Cast complete it in a speculative manner. Gemma Vannuzzi Judith van der Werff Constanze Ruhm *1965 Vienna Austria Josefin Platt Films (selection) Gli appunti di Anna Azzori (2019 d) Camera Hannes Böck Panoramis Paramount Paranormal – Editors Hannes Böck Three Times a Film (co-director 2017 a-g) Constanze Ruhm Crash Site/My_Never_Ending_Burial_Plot (2010 f)

Producers Constanze Ruhm Anže Peršin Production Stenar Projects (PT)

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84__ 85 Documentary in Production Dariush Luise Müller

Austria Dariush is a 40 year old member of an inland ship’s German (Eng sub) crew at the port of Hamburg. His daily life consists HD 1:1.85 in a full time job, a long term relationship and Punk stereo approx. 85 min concerts on weekends. Dariush is currently awaiting criminal charges. He is the subject of an ongoing in- Concept vestigation in Italy concerning the “facilitating of illegal Luise Müller immigration.” During 2016 and 2017 he worked on res- Maria Lisa Pichler cue ships. He is facing 20 years imprisonment. The film Camera Lukas Schöffel accompanies Dariush for a year. Editors Daniel Fill Luise Müller *1989 Frankfurt/Main Germany Maria Lisa Pichler Films (selection) Staub (2017 short d)

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85 Dreaming Dogs and Barking Men Elsa Kremser, Levin Peter

Austria Three stray dogs, four tramps and a limousine with­out Russian (Ger/Eng sub) wheels – in the midst of a run-down industrial land­ 2K CinemaScope 1:2.35 scape, not far from the center of Moscow. A “pack of Dolby Digital 5.1 approx. 75 min strays” – dogs and men, living off whatever they can find and what has been left behind in seemingly idyllic Concept/Editors circumstances. Yet, a building is rising unpre­ventably Elsa Kremser in the background, and soon it threatens to engulf the Levin Peter “forgotten garden” where the group is living. Camera Yunus Roy Imer Elsa Kremser *1985 Wolfsberg Austria Producers Films (selection) Space Dogs (co-director 2019 d) Elsa Kremser Mr & Mrs N (2014 short d) Levin Peter Production Levin Peter *1985 Jena Germany RAUMZEITFILM Films (selection) Space Dogs (co-director 2019 d) Produktion Beyond the Snowstorm (2016 d) Sonor (2010 short d)

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86__ 87 Documentary in Production Endphase Hans Hochstöger

Austria On the night of May 2, 1945, five days before the end German/Hebraic/ of World War II, 228 Hungarian Jews were murdered Hungarian/English in the small Lower Austrian community of Hofamt (Ger/Eng Sub) 4K 1:1.85 Priel by perpetrators unnamed to this day. Witnesses Dolby Stereo recognized local helpers, but the murderers were never approx. 85 min found, nor was there a trial. The massacre is one of the last so-called “Endphase Crimes,” and maybe the Concept last that we know so little about. Everyone – survivors, Hans Hochstöger Camera relatives of the victims, but also the families of the Richard Bayerl perpetrators and local witnesses – have to deal with a Editor terrible memory and have been silent about the events Christin Veith for more than 75 years. Completion 2021 Hans Hochstöger *1982 Melk Austria Contact Hans Hochstöger

87 Eva-Maria Lukas Ladner

Austria Due to childhood polio, Eva-Maria has been sitting in German (Eng sub) a wheel chair for as long as she can remember. Her 2K 1:1.85 whole life she has been fighting an uphill battle to be stereo approx. 80 min accepted as a full-fledged member of society. Today, having reached the end of her 30ies, she dares to take a Concept/Camera courageous step: She has decided to become a mother. Lukas Ladner Chronicled by one of her assistants, this film provides Gregor Perle unusually intimate insight into living outside the norms Editor Lisa Zoe Geretschläger of conventional family planning.

Producers Lukas Ladner *1991 Innsbruck Austria Arash T. Riahi Films (selection) Like Sun in an Empty Room (2018 short f) Peter Drössler Treibgut (2017 short f) Sabine Gruber Ritter ohne Fehl und Adel (2014 short d) Daniel Dlouhy Lukas Ladner Production Golden Girls Filmproduktion Bunny Beach Films

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88__ 89 Documentary in Production it works 20 Fridolin Schönwiese

Austria The short film it works released in 1998 documented German (Eng sub) four handicapped children as they went about their HD 16:9 everyday work routines. 20 years later, these children Dolby Stereo approx. 90 min have grown into wonderful 30-year-old men and women who now stand in the prime of their lives. This Concept film finds a personal and filmic intimacy much like its Fridolin Schönwiese precursor, while questioning how socially normative Camera concepts determine who is or is not considered Joerg Burger Johannes Hammel handicapped nowadays. Editor Karina Ressler Fridolin Schönwiese *1967 Vienna Austria Sound Design Films (selection) Kopie aus dem Bundesarchiv (2015 a-g) Michael Palm The Five Cardinal Points (2011 d) Volver la Vista – The Gaze Back (2006 d) Producer Fridolin Schönwiese

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89 Just Be There Caspar Pfaundler

Austria Just Be There, the first part of the “dance rehearsal French/German/English documentary film-project” takes place in the Vienna DCP 2K 1:1.85 State Opera: Manuel Legris, the director of the Vienna Dolby Digital approx. 105 min State Ballet is the dancer in a new choreography of Patrick de Bana with Nina Polakova, a first soloist Realisation of the company. The focus lies on the creative Caspar Pfaundler process between the choreographer and the dancers. Sometimes philosophical, sometimes a confrontation Completion 2021 with practical problems of movements – rehearsals Contact are always a breathtaking work. The film ends with the Caspar Pfaundler last rehearsal on stage for the Nurejew Gala 2019. No interviews, no commentary and probably no subtitles – the body language says enough.

Caspar Pfaundler *1959 Innsbruck Austria Films (selection) Die Melancholie der Millionäre (2018 d) Gehen am Strand (2013 f) Schottentor (2009 f)

90__ 91 Documentary in Production Krai Aleksey Lapin

Austria A filmmaker is shooting a fictional film with his team Russian/Italian/German in the village of his forefathers near the Russian- (Ger/Eng Sub) Ukrainian border. He attempts to make a movie DCP 2K 1:1.37 b&w that is “fresh and clean-cut in terms of methods and Dolby Digital aesthetic tricks,” however he encounters hurdles approx. 120 min in the real world, influencing the lives of the village people, and the truth becomes mingled with lies. As Concept a consequence, the author has to disappear from Aleksey Lapin Camera the artwork. A new fiction begins, where causality Adrian Campean and predictability are exclusive cases. Legends are legitimized and fictional film becomes documentary. Producers The village has transformed itself into a stage. Florian Brüning Thomas Herberth Aleksey Lapin *1988 Tomsk Russia Production Films (selection) 100 Euro (2018 short f) Horse&Fruits Geschichte 2000 (co-director 2017 short f) Filmproduktion Rhythmus 59 (co-director 2016 short f) Completion 2021

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91 Kurt Kren Martina Kudláček

Austria The film explores the biography, myths, world view and German/English art work of Austrian artist Kurt Kren (1929–1998), a HD major figure in avant-garde film from the 1950ies until approx. 100 min his death, beloved of the generations that followed him Concept both for his accomplishments and his sensibility, whose Martina Kudláček work sharply resonates in many of the most radical art Camera move­ments of the late 20th century, from Actionism to Johannes Hammel Punk. Wolfgang Lehner Editor Henry Hills Martina Kudláček *1965 Vienna Austria Films (selection) Fragments of Kubelka (2012 d) Notes on Completion 2021 Marie Menken (2006 d) In the Mirror of Maya Deren (2001 d)

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92__ 93 Documentary in Production Left to Die sebastian j. f.

Austria Left to Die is the story of 72 African refugees adrift in English a dinghy in the Mediterranean Sea, without food or 4K 1:1.85 water, for 14 days. They are on their way from Libya to Dolby Stereo approx. 90 min Lampedusa when they run out of fuel. A military heli- copter, a NATO warship and several fishing boats spot Concept the vessel drifting helplessly in the sea but abandon Fate the men in the dinghy to their fate. When the boat is Camera washed ashore on the Libyan coast two weeks later, Lukas Gnaiger Editor only nine of the 72 passengers on board are still alive. s&a sebastian j. f. *1969 Austria Producer Films (selection) War on Terror™ (2011 d) sebastian j. f. The War on Drugs (2007 d) info wars (2004 d) Production Cronos Film

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93 The Life of Sean DeLear Markus Zizenbacher

Austria This film aims to preserve the legacy of the fabulous English/German Sean DeLear, cross-dressing punk singer and party (Eng sub) maven, through time and space. He is living art and DV 16:9 color/b&w acted out a variety of art forms from music and fashion Dolby Stereo to film and theater. Before he died in September approx. 90 min 2017, all of his belongings – photos, videos, dresses – were sent from his hometown L. A. to Vienna. It’s Concept/Producer an inspiring collection of flashbacks through time Markus Zizenbacher and provides insight into this exceptional personality, Camera who was a cultural boundary-breaker, transcending Kurdwin Ayub sexuality, race, age, genres, scenes … everything. Aleksey Lapin Editor Markus Zizenbacher *1986 Oberpullendorf Austria Sebastian Schreiner Films (selection) Deep Work (2019 short f) Geschichte 2000 (co-director 2017 short f) Rhythmus 59 (co-director 2016 f) Completion 2021

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94__ 95 Documentary in Production Mirrors Alireza Ghanie

Austria How does the theater of life go on when a renowned Farsi/multiple actor and theater director in an Islamic country resolves languages to acknowledge her transsexuality, regardless of any (Ger/Eng sub) HD 16:9 social implications, and decides to undergo sex change Dolby Digital surgery to become a man? The film accompanies the approx. 85 min protagonist’s extraordinary life circumstances, his self- confident fight against discrimination as well as his Concept/Editor positive creative spirit and power to make a new life for Alireza Ghanie Camera himself according to his own design. Kave Shahlou Alireza Ghanie Alireza Ghanie *1959 Tehran Iran Films (selection) Networking (2014 short d) Producer Lessons From Bam (2005 short d) Windspiel (2002 f) Alireza Ghanie

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95 My Room Monika Stuhl

Austria Nothing exceptional to report. The starting point for German/Italian one is the ultimate achievement for the other. Lorenzo, (Ger sub) ­Matteo, Barbara, Dagmara and Carla live in Perugia. They HD 16:9 Dolby Stereo either suffer from a mental handicap or a psycho­logical approx. 90 min disturbance. They live in a settlement called Prisma, together with people whose normalcy is calculated to Concept/Editor be contagious. Behavioural disturbances such as an- Monika Stuhl orexia and self-mutilisation permanently improve in this Camera Joerg Burger environment. But the “normal” people also experience changes. Producer Monika Stuhl Monika Stuhl *1964 Vienna Austria Films (selection) Nicht fern. Nicht nah. (1995 short d) Wohin Completion 2021 verschwindet das Meer bei Ebbe? (1992 short f) Mit an Sicherheit grenzender Wahrscheinlichkeit (1990 short d) Contact Monika Stuhl

96__ 97 Documentary in Production Nur ein Augenblick Joerg Burger

Austria What is time? What is the essence of our times? What German/English happens to time after it has passed? To which extent (Ger sub) does our perception of time determine the decisions HD 1:1.85 color/b&w we make in our daily lives? What is the relationship Dolby SR between past, present and future? How long does a approx. 80 min moment take? The film A Moment in Time assumes the form of an essay on the phenomenon of time and the Realisation approach to its philosophical, existential and scientific Joerg Burger aspects. Production Joerg Burger Joerg Burger *1961 Vienna Austria Filmproduktion Films (selection) Elfie Semotan, Photographer (2019 d) Un solo colore (2016 d) Focus on Infinity (2014 d) Completion 2021

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97 Order in Chaos – Chaos in Order Pavel Cuzuioc

Austria A portrait film of a group of scientists who live and Russian (Eng sub) work at the Special Astrophysical Observatory, located DCP 2K 1:1.85 in an isolated Russian village in the Caucasian Moun- Dolby Digital 5.1 approx. 90 min tains. Faced with the magnitude of the universe, the protagonists seek meaning through science and phi- Realisation losophy, in order to deal with the mundane realities of Pavel Cuzuioc their terrestrial existence. This film charts the intersec- tion of astrophysics and existentialism. Production Pavel Cuzuioc Filmproduktion Pavel Cuzuioc *1978 Republic of Moldova Films (selection) Bitte warten ... (2020 d) Completion 2021 Secondo Me (2016 d) Raisa (2015 short f)

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98__ 99 Documentary in Production Paraísos Clara Trischler

Austria/Germany An indigenous Mexican village turns into a ghost town Spanish (Ger/Eng sub) as most of its inhabitants have migrated to the US: 16:9 HD How does it feel like to live on the other side of the stereo approx. 90 min American Dream? The villagers of El Alberto develop an unusual solution: They slip into the roles of border Concept guards and human traffickers to re-enact the traumatic Clara Trischler crossing for paying tourists who can thus experience Camera being a migrant for one night. Carolina Steinbrecher Marie-Thérèse Zumtobel Miriam Ortiz Clara Trischler *1986 Korneuburg Austria Editor Films (selection) Zuhause ist kein Ort (2016 short d) Marielle Pohlmann Das erste Meer (2013 d) Wir haben keinen Himmel, auf den wir warten sollten (2007 short f) Producers Thomas Herberth Florian Brüning Production Horse&Fruits Vienna (AT)/Munich (DE)

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99 Read My Breasts Anja Salomonowitz

Austria Read My Breasts is a documentary film about the Ukrai- German/English nian activist Inna Shevchenko, famous founder of the (Eng sub) feminist group FEMEN. Her political actions changed 4K CinemaScope 1:2.39 stereo our world, yet her battle in the nude yielded contradic- approx. 90 min tory results – even leading to torture. And so it is that this film is also about disappointment and trauma. Inna Concept has experienced much of our harsh world. But she does Anja Salomonowitz not give up. A film about modern feminism. Camera Martin Putz Editor Anja Salomonowitz *1976 Vienna Austria Eleonora Camizzi Films (selection) Dieser Film ist ein Geschenk (2019 d) Die 727 Tage ohne Karamo (2013 d) Spanien (2012 f) Producers Arash T. Riahi Peter Drössler Sabine Gruber Production Golden Girls Filmproduktion

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100__ 101 Documentary in Production Rösl’s Suitcase Elizabeth Lennard

Austria Truth and lies. Disconnected letters tell the broken German/English story of the effect the Nazi’s annexation of Austria had 2K+4K 1:1.85 on the Viennese. A young lady will be a linchpin in this color/b&w 5.1 filmed investigation. Interwoven with home movies and approx. 80 min recordings of three generations of women – from 1938 thru my own coming of age in the Sixties and Seventies Concept – the film tells the story of my quest to find out what Elizabeth Lennard really happened and unearth my father’s secrets. Producer Peter Janecek Elizabeth Lennard *1953 New York USA Production Films (selection) Talking House: Eileen Gray & Jean Badovici PLAESION Film + Vision (2016 short d) The Stein Family, the Making of Modern Art (2011 short d) Tokyo Melody: A film about Ryuichi Sakamoto Completion 2021 (1985 short d)

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101 Stories From the Sea Jola Wieczorek

Austria The Mediterranean has always played a central role in German/English/ our world. It is crossed, made use of, enjoyed, feared Italian/Tagalog and loved every day, every night. Stories From the Sea (Ger/Eng sub) 3K 1:1.85 portrays people aboard three vessels who experience b&w the Mediterranean Sea as a place of longing, a place of stereo work, or a scene of human encounters. The all-encom- approx. 90 min passing blue waters, unceasing waves and distant hori- zon are elements that link the protagonists, regardless Concept Jola Wieczorek of their motivation to go out to sea. Camera Serafin Spitzer Jola Wieczorek *1983 Pozna´n Polen Editor Films (selection) O que resta (2015 short d) Rubén Rocha List do Polski (2015 short d) Època Baixa (2013 short d)

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102__ 103 Documentary in Production Tagebuch eines Optimisten Rainer Frimmel, Tizza Covi

Austria Emile Zuckerkandl (1922–2013) was the only German/English grandson of the famous Austrian journalist, Berta HD 16:9 Zuckerkandl. After years fleeing from the Nazi stereo approx. 80 min regime, he managed to build a major scientific career in the US. The memories of the 90-year- Concept/Camera old paint a vivid picture of 20th-century history Rainer Frimmel with all its highs and lows. An Optimist’s Diary. Editors Tizza Covi Rainer Frimmel *1971 Vienna Austria Rainer Frimmel Tizza Covi *1971 Bolzano Italy Films (selection) Mister Universo (2016 f) Producer The Shine of Day (2012 f) La Pivellina (2009 f) Rainer Frimmel Production Vento Film

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103 Die Tagträume des Nikolaus Habjan Johannes Hammel

Austria The Daydreams of Nikolaus Habjan is a long-term German (Eng sub) project. Over the next two years, director Johannes DCP Hammel will have the opportunity of accompanying Dolby Digital 5.1 approx. 90 min artist extraordinaire, Nikolaus Habjan. This film is intended to give close-­up views of the artist’s Concept/Camera diverse fields of work, as well as an encompassing Johannes Hammel overview of his creative œuvre to the present, Additional Camera including puppetry, theater and opera directing, Reinhard Mayr Jan Zischka and whistling – the vast professional spectrum of Johannes Gierlinger the 33-year old artist, who seems to be at home Editor in almost all genres of the theater and opera. Sophie Reiter Johannes Hammel *1963 Basel Switzerland Producer Films (selection) Buildings (2015 a-g) Johannes Hammel Jour sombre (2011 a-g) Folge mir (2010 f) Production hammelfilm

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104__ 105 Documentary in Production Vor dem Verschwinden/Izginjanje Andrina Mračnikar

Austria/Slovenia Vor dem Verschwinden/Izginjanje (Before Dissapearing) German/Slovene is an essayistic documentary about the continuous (Eng Sub) disappearance of the Carinthian Slovene ethnic group 4K 1:1.85 Dolby SR in the southernmost province of Austria. A film about approx. 110 min language and identity and the question of resistance or adaptation. Concept Andrina Mračnikar Andrina Mračnikar *1981 Hallein Austria Camera Films (selection) Ma Folie (2015 f) With Death as the Only Judith Benedikt Certain Fate (2007 d) Andri 1924–1944 (2004 short d) Editor Gerhard Daurer

Producers Jürgen Karasek Danijel Hočevar Production Soleil Film (AT) Vertigo Film (SI)

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105 Zusammenleben Thomas Fürhapter

Austria How is Vienna’s culture mediated to migrants? The German/English/ documentary feature entitled Living Together follows multiple languages new migrants from different countries, beginning (Ger sub) HD 16:9 with their first step into a new country. What Dolby Stereo expectations do migrants have of Vienna? What approx. 90 min information and values are communicated to them in the “integration courses” and what are not? Concept Thomas Fürhapter Thomas Fürhapter *1971 Vienna Austria Camera Films (selection) Die dritte Option (2017 d) Judith Benedikt Michael Berger. Eine Hysterie (2010 d) Planes (2006 a-g) Thomas Fürhapter Editor Dieter Pichler

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106__ 107 Documentary in Production Zwischennutzung Dariusz Kowalski

Austria The documentary film Zwischennutzung centers on a German (Eng Sub) building that once housed the “Spitzauer-Weiser” meat 2K CinemaScope 1:2.35 factory in Simmering, Vienna’s eleventh district. Here Dolby Stereo approx. 90 min the factory serves as a collective setting and narrative hinge connecting protagonists and their fields of work. Concept This filmic essay depicts the image of a site in the flux Dariusz Kowalski of temporary use and in the process of disappearing. Camera A critical light is shed on economic mechanisms of Martin Putz Editor eviction in urban spaces. Dieter Pichler Dariusz Kowalski *1971 Krakow Poland Producer Films (selection) Seeing Voices (2016 d) Richtung Nowa Huta Dariusz Kowalski (2012 doc) Optical Vacuum (2008 a-g, d)

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107 News From Home. News to Home. Borjana Ventzislavova

Was soll man machen – Vor Entzücken? Astrid Johanna Ofner avant-garde in production ——— News From Home. News to Home. Borjana Ventzislavova

Austria News From Home. News to Home. pays homage to English (Ger sub) Chantal Akerman’s documentary film News from home. HD 16:9 Akerman made her film at the age of 26, showing stereo approx. 85 min scenes of New York filmed in 1976 while reading her mother’s letters aloud. Inspired by this film, 43 years Realisation later I would like to present a different New York Borjana Ventzislavova and a different mother-daughter relationship. The physical and mental distance allows for a film about Completion 2021 change, love and alienation – a document about a piece of zeitgeist made from a different perspective. Contact Borjana Ventzislavova Borjana Ventzislavova *1976 Sofia Bulgaria Films (selection) Real Games (2020 a-g) Migration Standards (2011 short d) It Isn’t Healthy (2013 a-g)

110__ 111 Avant-Garde in Production Was soll man machen – Vor Entzücken? Astrid Johanna Ofner

Austria A poetic film essay about a woman and a room. The German (Eng sub) woman is Rosa Luxemburg, in her prison cell during S-8 mm/HD 16:9 the First World War. She writes letters comforting her mono approx. 75 min friend Sophie Liebknecht whose husband is likewise under arrest. At the same time, Luxemburg smuggles Screenplay slips of paper out of prison, aiming to establish Astrid Johanna Ofner Germany’s first Communist Party. What Should One Do Key Cast – In Light of Rapture? Sylvie Rohrer

Realisation Astrid Johanna Ofner *1968 Linz Austria Astrid Johanna Ofner Films (selection) Die Strände (2019 a-g) Abschied von den Eltern (2018 a-g) Tell Me on Tuesday (2007 a-g) Producer Astrid Johanna Ofner Production The Raven Films

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111 Das andere Ende der Straße Kálmán Nagy

Atlantis Dominik Brauweiler

Dear Darkness Antoinette Zwirchmayr

Fireworks Sebastian Schmidl

Die guten Plätze Florian Kogler

Ingo und Maja Jan Prazak

Mein Satz Amina Handke

Reisen Maximilian Fürst

Rosa im Schloss Wolf-Maximilian Liebich

Ruletista! Lukas Valenta Rinner

Tauchen Dominik Galleya Tendl Clemens Niel

Was man empfindet, ist Angst Rebecca Hirneise

Where Is Ida? Petra Zöpnek fiction short in production ——— 114__ 115 Fiction Short in Production Das andere Ende der Straße Atlantis Kálmán Nagy Dominik Brauweiler

When 9-year-old Ábel is attacked by a Lene and Timo have retreated to a house at classmate, Ábel’s father decides to visit the the seaside. Here it feels like they are the boy’s parents to put an end to the constant only two people in the world. But something harassment. The conversation does not go unspoken is clouding their time together. as hoped and confronts father and son with They are there for one another, but they are a moral dilemma. also equally distant from one another, while connected by the hope that far away from Kálmán Nagy *1992 Veszprém Hungary everything else life could be easy forever. Films (selection) Olyan Dolgok – Such Things At a hidden cove, Lene and Timo ultimately (2020 short f) Elias (2018 short f) Wandertrieb (2017 short d) find the courage to disappear entirely.

Austria/Hungary Dominik Brauweiler *1981 Bonn Germany Hungarian (Ger/Eng sub) Films (selection) Vagabond (2020 short f) 2K 1:1.85 Dolby SR Austria approx. 25 min German (Eng sub) RAW 2K CinemaScope 1:2.35 Screenplay Kálmán Nagy Dolby SR Camera Manuel Prett approx. 25 min Editor Lea Sorgo Screenplay Dominik Brauweiler Producer Alisa Frischholz Andreas Schiessler Key Cast Thomas Schubert Completion 2021 Anna Suk Camera Andreas Habermaier Contact Kálmán Nagy Editor László Váncsa

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115 Dear Darkness Fireworks Antoinette Zwirchmayr Sebastian Schmidl

White, grey, and black rooms of a shared Following an act of violence, two sisters past and divided present; dreams and fan- team up to take revenge on the person tasies surrounding one’s own life, and the who seems to be the culprit, while they find lives of the others: Three women who were themselves being pulled deeper and deeper once best friends meet after twenty years into the darkest areas of their minds. and dismantle the facades of their existen- tial constructs layer by layer. But ultimately, Sebastian Schmidl *1986 Vienna Austria they part ways before their lives fall apart. Films (selection) Unsquare (2019- short f) Liebling (2015 short f) Brigitte-Brigitte (2011 short f) Antoinette Zwirchmayr *1989 Oberndorf Austria Films (selection) Ocenao Mare (2020 a-g) The Shadow of Utopia (2018 a-g) Austria The Pimp and His Trophies (2014 d) German (Eng sub) DCP CinemaScope 1:2.39 Surround 5.1 Austria approx. 30 min German 16 mm 1:1.37 Screenplay Sebastian Schmidl approx. 29 min Key Cast Anna Suk Camera Victoria Herbig Screenplay Angelika Reitzer Antoinette Zwirchmayr Producers Victoria Herbig Key Cast Susanne Wuest Sebastian Schmidl Veronika Glatzner, Teresa Rotschopf Camera Leena Koppe Completion 2021 Editor Lisa Truttmann Contact Sebastian Schmidl Producers Klara Pollak Antoinette Zwirchmayr Production AZ Productions

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116__ 117 Fiction Short in Production Die guten Plätze Ingo und Maja Florian Kogler Jan Prazak

Markus is a sound engineer at a small the- 60-year-old Maja moves into a shared flat ater in Carinthia. He has moved into his with others. In the flat, she becomes ac- aunt’s holiday cottage in order to write a quainted with her flat-mate Valentin, a stu- play. With exacting powers of observation dent in his late 20ies, who hasn’t yet learned and linguistic prowess, he creates a reveal- to make his own way in life. Initially skepti- ing drama involving the people around him. cal, they learn to appreciate each other, and Markus’ friends find him in a disheveled an unusual friendship comes into being. and unkempt state, which seriously wor- ries them. As they recognize the parallels Jan Prazak *1991 Vienna Austria between themselves and the characters in Films (selection) Another Life (2019 d) Die Bewegung der Sterne (2018 short f) Markus’ play, they begin ruthlessly taking Baumstämme im Schnee (2016 short f) account. Austria Florian Kogler *1989 Graz Austria German Films (selection) Night (2019 short f) The Book of 2K Sabeth (2019 short d) Correction (2014 short f) Dolby SR approx. 30 min Austria German (Eng sub) Screenplay Jan Prazak 2K 1:1.85 Key Cast Ingo Geiger Dolby Stereo Claudia Martini approx. 30 min Camera Johannes Höß Editor Barbara Seidler Screenplay Florian Kogler Key Cast Tom Feichtinger Producer Flora Mair Irina Sulaver, Merlin Sandmeyer Camera Andi Widmer Completion 2021 Editor Nooran Talebi Contact Jan Prazak Producers Shirin Hooshmandi, Florian Kogler Marius Mertens, Nooran Talebi, Andi Widmer

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117 Mein Satz Reisen Amina Handke Maximilian Fürst

Out of the blue, 77- year-old “I” loses her Travels depicts a day in the life of four language. She reacts with different stra­ people whose paths have or will cross. In tegies of assimilation or resistance to fragments, we observe the protagonists, ­attempts to make her function or to tran­ as they attempt to give their lives new quilize her. It becomes evident that she, just direction. The four short episodes show like the world around her, is caught in lan- how we all experiment in our own ways guage regulations and commonplaces. Ac- with relationships, livelihoods, our emotions cordingly vague and ambiguous is the rea­lity as well as those of others, actions and around “I”: Could everything be staged? reactions and how these decisions create and influence our behavior and social fabric. Amina Handke *1969 Berlin Germany Films (selection) Children’s Film (2020 short d) Maximilian Fürst *1988 Lustenau Austria Wishing Cast (2016 a-g) Films (selection) Entschuldigung (2017 short f) Mother of Mother (2015 a-g) Drama (2016 short f) Lebenslauf (2014 short f)

Austria Austria German (Eng sub) German (Eng sub) 2K 2K 1:1.85 Dolby Stereo Dolby Stereo approx. 60 min approx. 30 min

Screenplay Amina Handke Screenplay Maximilian Fürst (based on Kaspar by Peter Handke) Key Cast Sandra Lipp Key Cast Libgart Schwarz Werner Brix, Claudia Martini Caroline Peters, Helga Illich Camera Sophia Wiegele Camera Marianne A. Borowiec Editor Philipp Mayer Editor Amina Handke Producer Claudia Joldes Producers Amina Handke Nora Friedel Completion 2021 Production Familiendrama Contact Maximilian Fürst Completion 2021

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118__ 119 Fiction Short in Production Rosa im Schloss Ruletista! Wolf-Maximilian Liebich Lukas Valenta Rinner

Rosa is a young student who returns home Housing park Alterlaa: the suburban habitat from abroad in the wake of her parents’ of a social utopia, which is slowly disappear- suicide. Wandering the silent halls of the ing. Günter, the eternal loser, survives, since castle, she searches for a way to adjust and he has even managed to mess up his bid to how to deal with the legacy of her parents. end his own life here. In his darkest hour The longer she lingers here, the more the comes a moment of enlightenment. A game castle comes to life and mirrors her fears. against the mortality of life: Ruletista! Everyday matters present difficult hurdles, until she finally realizes she must leave in Lukas Valenta Rinner *1985 Salzburg Austria order to move on. Films (selection) Die Liebhaberin (2016 f) Parabellum (2015 f) Brief an Fukuyama (2010 short f) Wolf-Maximilian Liebich *1984 St. Veit/Glan Austria Films (selection) Die Unvollendeten Austria (2019 short d) #schulausflug (2016 short d) German (Eng sub) Das Labyrinth unter der Sonne (2012 short f) S-16 mm/DCP 1:1.85 stereo approx. 20 min Austria German (Eng sub) Screenplay Dolby Digital Lukas Valenta Rinner approx. 30 min Producer Screenplay Wolf-Maximilian Liebich Lukas Valenta Rinner Key Cast Jessyca Hauser Production Camera Laura Ettel Nabis Filmgroup Editor Lucia Johow Completion 2021 Producer Ivet Castelo Contact Completion 2021 Nabis Filmgroup Contact Wolf-Maximilian Liebich

119 Tauchen Was man empfindet, ist Dominik Galleya Tendl Angst Rebecca Hirneise Clemens Niel Dive: Elias is searching for a way to belong The film presents an episode from Hanna’s in a male dominated environment of young life. She is in a relationship with a man who gangs, his father’s youthful friends, and suffers from intense compulsive disorders. German rap music. But just how far will he The short story of What You Feel Is Fear go to realize his longing? in­tends to convey how psychological dis- abilities impact family. A special feature of Dominik Galleya Tendl *1989 Brixlegg Austria the film’s production strategy lies in the fact Clemens Niel *1991 Graz Austria that the actors do not receive a copy of the Films (selection) Oben Bleiben (2019 short f) screenplay. However, the written script does Austria include a basic story, narrative density and German (Eng sub) tempo which the film endeavors to sustain. 2K 1:1.66 Dolby SR Rebecca Hirneise *1984 Mühlacker Germany approx. 16 min Films (selection) Alltag (2018 short f) Huone 4.11B (2014 short f) Alter Flugplatz (2013 short d) Screenplay Dominik Galleya Tendl Clemens Niel Austria Key Cast Elijahs Neuwirth German (Eng sub) Camera Clemens Niel 2K Editor Joachim Iseni Dolby 5.1 approx. 20 min Producers Shari Ehlers Manuel Defregger Screenplay Rebecca Hirneise Key Cast Elsa Mourlam Completion 2021 Camera Sophia Wiegele Editor Florian Kecht Contact Dominik Galleya Tendl Clemens Niel Production Caroline Liebhart

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120__ 121 Fiction Short in Production Where Is Ida? Petra Zöpnek

Ida Pfeiffer (1797–1858) was a globetrotter, an adventuress, a travel writer, and a collector of natural produce. She journeyed 240,000 kilometers by sea and 32,000 kilometers across 4 continents. The 13 books she wrote about her travels were translated into 7 languages. Who today has ever heard of this Biedermeier lady from Vienna’s seventh district? Back in the day she was a famous celebrity and a role model for many women. This film reveals her path.

Petra Zöpnek *1969 Vienna Austria Films (selection) Where Is Lotte? (2020 a-g) Mädchen in Rot und Gold (2006 a-g)

Austria German (Eng sub) DCP b&w Dolby 5.1 approx. 40 min

Key Cast Susanne Berger Christian Pulker, Bernhard Bastien

Realisation Petra Zöpnek

Music GIL CHÉRI (= Gilbert Handler, Petra Zöpnek) Sound Design Gilbert Handler

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121 Augusts Orte Valérie Pelet

Entlang der Körper Antoinette Zwirchmayr

Europe, Can You See Me? Katharina Simunic

Fify Ibrahim hört auf! Fify Ibrahim hört auf? Gabriele Mathes

Frauenfragmente: Gini und Resi Sophie Gmeiner

HLS/Hasenleiten Stories Lotte Schreiber

A Pile of Ghosts Ella Raidel

Sanatorium Druzhba Harald Hund

Those Next to Us Bernhard Hetzenauer

Verwandlung Simon Spitzer

Wind Martin Putz documentary short in production ——— Augusts Orte Valérie Pelet

August’s Places is a film that follows escape routes used by people and animals to places along the Austrian border. It presents an in- terplay between spoken text and film images, with the off-screen narrator organizing and drawing connections between research docu- ments, images and interviews, notations and sounds. Her voice consciously adds a person- al note. She unifies local events and personal memories in the dizzying heat of August.

Valérie Pelet *1981 Rum Austria

Austria German S-16 mm 2K scan stereo approx. 45 min

Concept/Camera Valérie Pelet

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124__ 125 Documentary Short in Production Entlang der Körper Europe, Can You See Me? Antoinette Zwirchmayr Katharina Simunic

“With the intensity of a dream, to pass The closure of the so-called Balkan Route through what has been, in order to has resulted in unthinkable suffering experience the present as the waking world over the years. Bosnia-Herzegovina to which the dream refers!” is a focal point of this humanitarian (Walter Benjamin, Paris Arcades, 1927–1929) catastrophe. Grave human rights abuses are daily perpetrated there, both within Antoinette Zwirchmayr *1989 Oberndorf Austria and outside EU borders. This documentary Films (selection) Am frostigen Atlas (2020 a-g) film treats the precarious situation of Josef – My Father’s Criminal Record (2016 d) The Pimp and His Trophies (2014 d) refugees from various perspectives while re-contextualizing images of a state of Austria emergency far removed from main stream German media coverage. 16 mm 1:1.37 stereo Katharina Simunic approx. 30 min *1993 Waidhofen/Thaya Austria

Concept Austria Antoinette Zwirchmayr German/English Camera Leena Koppe 2K 16:9 Dolby Stereo Producers Klara Pollak approx. 40 min Antoinette Zwirchmayr Production AZ Productions Concept/Editor Katharina Simunic Camera Jonathan Meiri Completion 2021 Voice Katharina Schöch

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125 Fify Ibrahim hört auf! Frauenfragmente: Fify Ibrahim hört auf? Gini und Resi Gabriele Mathes Sophie Gmeiner A documentary film about a small shop After Resi (59) was able to lead her life large- expected to soon go bankrupt in a public ly autonomously despite her mental disabili- housing project on the western outskirts ty, she has been living in the local retirement of Vienna. Fify Ibrahim manages a grocery home in her hometown of Kössen, Tyrol for store for “the little people,” the inhabitants a few years now. The unconventional Gini of the housing project. Why shouldn’t this (61) is Resi’s sister and guardian, but also her shop shut down like its two predecessors closest ally from the family. Their indestruc- that were located here? Do my neighbors tible humor holds the two sisters together, understand what they will be losing if Fify even though in Resi’s life there would have Ibrahim really closes the store down? been every reason to lose heart. In March 2020 Resi died of corona disease. Gabriele Mathes *1960 Wels Austria Films (selection) Gefühl Dobermann Sophie Gmeiner *1992 Kufstein Austria (2015 short f) Flaschenpost (2012 a-g, f) Films (selection) Frauenfragmente: Galila Eine Million Kredit ist ganz normal, (2019 short d) sagt mein Großvater (2006 short d, a-g) Austria Austria German (Eng sub) German 2K 1:1.85 HD 1:1.85 mixed media (16 mm+iPhone) approx. 30 min Dolby Stereo approx.30 min Concept/Producer Gabriele Mathes Concept/Editor Sophie Gmeiner Camera/Editor Camera Simon Dallaserra, Sophie Gmeiner Hermann Lewetz Producers Sophie Gmeiner Completion 2021 Simon Dallaserra, Nils Schröder Production Schiefer Film (DE) Contact Gabriele Mathes Completion 2021

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126__ 127 Documentary Short in Production HLS/Hasenleiten Stories A Pile of Ghosts Lotte Schreiber Ella Raidel

HSL/Hasenleiten Stories portrays a resi­den­ A Chinese ghost town. The last hotel, which tial housing settlement located on the has been condemned for demolition like the southeastern outskirts of Vienna, an area rest of the town, is still standing. The owner known as Hasenleiten. Miniature plot lines Charles imagines himself in the scene of a are developed with the assistance of child­ Hollywood classic. The vexing interplay of ren and adolescents on site and interweave documentary and fiction, in which construc- with documentary observations of the tion workers, investors and real estate agents settle­ment, which was constructed between appear, takes place in contemporary China, 1937 and 1951. The filmic narrative con­ where cities are built entirely on speculation, tinually oscillates between the past and the dictated by the fictions of capitalism. present while focusing on the children and the supervisors of the local youth center. Ella Raidel *1970 Gmunden Austria Films (selection) Double Happiness (2014 d) Lotte Schreiber *1971 Mürzzuschlag Austria Play Life (2012 a-g) Subverses, China in Films (selection) Sabaudia (2018 a-g) Manchmal Mozambique (2011 d) also denkt man, weil es sich bewährt hat. Wittgensteins Haus. (2016 a-g, short f) Austria Tlatelolco (2011 d) Chinese (Eng/Ger sub) HD 16:9 Austria Dolby Stereo German (Eng sub) approx. 65 min HD 16:9 Dolby SR Concept/Producer Ella Raidel approx. 25 min Key Cast Yakira Cang, Yang Ke Camera Djordje Arambasic Concept/Editor/Producer Karel Picha, Vincent Zheng Lotte Schreiber Editor Daniel Hui Camera Johannes Hammel Laura Ettel Completion 2021

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127 Sanatorium Druzhba Those Next to Us Harald Hund Bernhard Hetzenauer

Sanitorium Druzhba is a documentary that In breathtaking words, Germán López Rosales uses a Soviet-era building as a starting point describes his experience of a human smuggling to delve into the current situation in Crimea operation from the Mexican-American border after its annexation by Russia. The building to San Antonio, Texas. Locked up inside the serves as a symbol alluding to the broken cargo area of a tractor-trailer, ten of the relationship between Russia and Ukraine. 39 migrants died due to heat and lack of water. Its utopian modernist architectural style is Cinematic images of vast, idyllic landscapes employed as a metaphor for a seemingly shot in the border area of ­Tamaulipas/Texas utopian alliance between the two countries accompany Germán’s narration and create a nowadays. Occasionally generating an strong contrast to his intimate portrayals. assessment divergent from that of Western media, the film examines the currently Bernhard Hetzenauer *1981 Innsbruck Austria defunct rapport between the two nations. Films (selection) The Birthmark (co-director 2019 short d) La sombra de un dios (2017 short d) And There Was Fire in the Center of the Earth (2013 d) Harald Hund *1967 Grieskirchen Austria Films (selection) Iranium (2017 short d) Apnoe (2011 a-g) Mouse Palace (co-director 2010 a-g) Austria/Germany/Mexico Spanish (Eng/Ger sub) S-16 mm DCP 1:1.85 Austria Dolby SR Russian (Eng sub) approx. 20 min HD 16:9 stereo Concept Bernhard Hetzenauer approx. 55 min Camera Caroline Spreitzenbart Editors Bernhard Hetzenauer Realisation André Siegers Harald Hund Production Bernhard Hetzenauer (AT) Completion 2021 Marko Mijatovic (DE)

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128__ 129 Documentary Short in Production Verwandlung Wind Simon Spitzer Martin Putz

The essay film Metamorphosis gives us an Wind itself is inaudible. All we hear is the ambient impression of the nightlife in a city sound emanating from its encounter with disco. The guests provide the focus for obstacles. Wind is invisible, what we see are documen­tary observations and the resulting its effects, what we perceive we intimate. investi­gation of a subculture, as well as the The wind itself remains a phantom, like the exploration of a discotheque’s performative cinematic principle of picture and sound, stage. The film is mostly without spoken dia­ creating sensations in our minds. The story log and has an ambient sound design, in part. of wind will be told through people who encounter and work with this phantom ele- Simon Spitzer *1988 Vienna Austria ment in various ways. The film contrasts Films (selection) Federspiel: Morsen (co-director their intentions and tells about the primor- 2017 short f) Holz einräumen (2014 short f) Die Leute von Stiege 5 (2012 short d) dial human effort to direct nature.

Austria Martin Putz *1967 Vienna Austria No dialog RAW 2.5K HD 1:1.85 Austria Dolby Stereo German/French/English approx. 15 min (Eng sub) DCP 1:1.85 Concept/Producer Simon Spitzer Dolby SR Camera Laura Ettel, Simon Spitzer approx. 30 min Editor Norbert Pfaffenbichler Concept/Camera Martin Putz Completion 2021 Editor Petra Zöpnek

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129 14/15 Never Meant to Be Seen Albert Sackl Elke Groen

Der antifaschistische Zoo nichts Meinhard Rauchensteiner Timotheus Tomicek

Auf dem Grund One Year des Wäschekorbes Johann Lurf Adele Razkövi Out of Sight Cargo Carriers Eve Heller Conny Zenk PUR Erinnerungsrauschen Josephine Ahnelt Eginhartz Kanter re-GEO/ristrutturare qualcosa EXT. Michaela Schwentner Laura Nasmyth Straight vs. Curved From Endlessness to Infinity Johannes Schiehsl Karl-Heinz Klopf Talszenen Geschichten eines Jungen, Annja Krautgasser einer Frau und eines Soldaten Franziska Pflaum Tehran Recyclers Nikki Schuster Heat Peter Kutin Train Again Florian Kindlinger Peter Tscherkassky

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Nachts im Bach Videoletter Gudrun Krebitz Karoline Riha avant-garde short in production ——— 14/15 Albert Sackl

14/15 is a 16 mm short that will be shot in 52 locations over the period of a year. Once a week, the camera will be set up for the day using a special single-frame time- lapse mechanism. The constant oscillation between two laterally displaced perspectives will create a kind of three-dimensional effect. This setting will be used for a range of interactions between several protagonists.

Albert Sackl *1977 Graz Austria Films (selection) Steifheit 1-3/7 (2018 a-g) Im Freien (2011 a-g) Vom Innen; von aussen (2006 a-g)

Austria No dialog 35 mm/16 mm 1:1.37 approx. 30 min

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132__ 133 Avant-Garde Short in Production Der antifaschistische Zoo Auf dem Grund des Meinhard Rauchensteiner Wäschekorbes Adele Razkövi

After 1945, predominantly apolitical sculp- At the Bottom of the Laundry Basket shows tures were initially erected in Vienna’s public the state of the emotional dilemma that the housing projects– mainly animals. The film protagonist finds herself in, as an artist and shows 17 of these sculptures, combined mother caught between domestic routines and with monologs, dialogs, poems and songs. A creative artistic processes. A comparison and final montage sequence shows the “Children fusion of the structures, in which she finds of Vienna,” accompanied by André Heller’s herself in daily life: the monotone repetition of song of the same name, as kids climb around the same routines versus total concentration on so-called play sculptures. on her current activity in the creative flow.

Meinhard Rauchensteiner *1970 Vienna Austria Adele Razkövi *1977 Vienna Austria Films (selection) Papa Roma (2020 a-g) Films (selection) Croax (2012 a-g) Mk. 10,25 (2018 a-g) Herbst (2016 a-g) Looking for Love (2010 a-g) La Andaluza (2008 f)

Austria Austria German No dialog HD 1:1.85 DV 16:9 approx. 15 min Dolby Stereo approx. 8 min Concept/Camera Meinhard Rauchensteiner Realisation Adele Razkövi Producer Daniel Zimmermann Completion 2021 Production dz-productions (CH) Contact Adele Razkövi Completion 2021

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133 Cargo Carriers Erinnerungsrauschen Conny Zenk Eginhartz Kanter

In the perfect picture of a dreamy landscape The Rush of Memory deals with personal and well-known architecture, noise fields reminiscence and the associated topic break through the idyllic surroundings. The of false memories. The thematic starting special soundscape of the island is created point for this experimental essay film is the by the prohibition of any kind of vehicle. For former GDR and the aftermath of this state. the transport of all goods, “carrying guys,” Shot on expired 16 mm film, the coarse- independent workers with special carts, are grained black-and-white images give rise to employed. By means of experimental cam- an imagery in which various temporalities – era work, field recording and contemporary today and yesterday – seem to mix. ­Chinese poetry, the tension between histori- cal world cultural heritage, tourism, work Eginhartz Kanter *1984 Leipzig Germany and life is negotiated. Films (selection) noisescapes (2019 a-g) taking away (2018 a-g) papermovements (2013 a-g) Conny Zenk *1985 Vienna Austria Films (selection) selfieDreamer (2020 a-g) Austria reglos (co-director 2018 a-g) German (Eng sub) Labadi Rising (2014 a-g) 16 mm/DCP 1:1.37 b&w stereo Austria approx. 30 min German/Chinese 2K+4K 1:1.85 Concept color/b&w Eginhartz Kanter Dolby SR Editors approx. 15 min Eginhartz Kanter Katharina Gruzei Concept/Animation Conny Zenk Camera Mr. Stone (cargo carrier) Completion 2021 Georg Hartl Interview Bunny Tsai Contact Conny Zenk Eginhartz Kanter Completion 2021

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134__ 135 Avant-Garde Short in Production EXT. From Endlessness to Infinity Laura Nasmyth Karl-Heinz Klopf

EXT. follows the experience of a figure An experimental reflection on a piece of trying to draw a line between an imagined furniture entitled “Nesting Table,” designed reality and her actual reality – her attempt in 1935 by the Austrian/American artist, to transcend a dark, fluid internal world by architect and visionary, Friedrich Kiesler: projecting herself into various scenarios in The film investigates the object, space, an imagined, material external world. architecture and filmic perception within a kaleidoscopic universe. Computer animation Laura Nasmyth *1984 Cambridge UK coupled with live action footage transforms Films (selection) Le Liquide (co-director 2019 a-g) the historical context of Kiesler’s piece of 8:30 (2017 f) 1:1 (2012 a-g ) furniture, lifting it into the present day. Austria No dialog Karl-Heinz Klopf *1956 Linz Austria 2K 1:1.85 Films (selection) Testa (2018 a-g) A Tropical approx. 25 min House (2015 short d) Tower House (2013 short d)

Concept Laura Nasmyth Austria Elio Gervasi German/English (Eng/Ger sub) Key Cast Uma Shannon HD 16:9 Camera Matthias Helldoppler Dolby SR Editor Laura Nasmyth approx. 15 min

Producers Concept/Producer Franziska Zaida Schrammel Karl-Heinz Klopf Laura Nasmyth, Elio Gervasi Camera Martin Putz Production Con Art Film Editors Karl-Heinz Klopf Tatia Skhirtladze Completion 2021 Production Contact Con Art Film KlopfKurz Vienna

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135 Geschichten eines Jungen, Heat Peter Kutin einer Frau und eines Florian Kindlinger Soldaten Franziska Pflaum Stories of a Boy, a Woman and a Soldier: Through the unorthodox use of modern image We travel back in time and dive into their and sound recording technology, Heat en- memories. Individual scenes come together ables an unusual view behind the facades of to form a story that increasingly interweaves a classical orchestra. From the recorded ma- the fates of all three protagonists: When terial, which is created in close cooperation Reza’s parents are killed in a bomb explo- with the musicians, the artist duo composed sion, he decides to leave Afghanistan and and arranged an abstract short film, which go to Germany. German soldier Matthias is makes the unknowns within the “machine” no longer able to cope in his homeland after tangible. By means of a thermal imaging cam- being deployed to Afghanistan. Stefanie, era it is possible to visualize minimal temper- a caretaker in Berlin, cannot comprehend, ature fluctuations and to record residual heat. why her son became a soldier. Peter Kutin *1983 Leoben Austria Franziska Pflaum *1987 Vienna Austria Florian Kindlinger *1984 Salzburg Austria Films (selection) So schön wie du (2014 short f) Films (selection) The Fifth Wall (2018 a-g) Draußen der Wald (2014 short f) Desert Bloom (2015 a-g) E# – from a glacial tune (2014 a-g) Austria/Germany German/Dari (Eng Sub) Austria photo film No dialog RAW 2K CinemaScope 1:2.35 DCP Dolby SR 5.1 approx. 22 min approx. 16 min

Screenplay Franziska Pflaum Realisation Peter Kutin Key Cast Ali Reza Ahmadi Florian Kindlinger Christina Große, Nico Ehrenteit Musicians Manu Mayer, Matthias Loibner Camera Niki Waltl Maiken Beer, Meaghan Burke, Igor Grosz Editor Friederike Hohmuth Completion 2021 Producer Maximilian Haslberger Production Amerikafilm (DE) Contact Peter Kutin Florian Kindlinger Completion 2021

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136__ 137 Avant-Garde Short in Production Interweaving Nachts im Bach Krisztina Kerekes Gudrun Krebitz

Interweaving is an experimental dance film It’s nighttime. Arda is sitting in the river, constituted by uncut long takes intended to accompanied by orchestral music. She convey a concept of interconnectivity, em- seems to be talking to herself: “Gentlemen bodying how the inner and outer worlds of – as per usual I’ve ended up in a situation I human beings are reciprocally determined. don’t understand or know anything about. Over the course of this little exploratory jour- However, I won’t lead on how clueless I am. ney, several dancing couples tap their reper- I’m always operating in the dark, things tend toire of movements to engage in a dialog of to turn out beautifully this way.” Out of this unexpected body language that they unfold darkness two moons come racing towards in natural as well as urban spaces. A dance her and I will tell you a secret: These moons of relational dynamics based on openness are your eyes. and vulnerability. Gudrun Krebitz *1983 Graz Austria Krisztina Kerekes *1978 Films (selection) The Magical Dimension (2018 Sepsiszentgyörgy Romania a-g) Exomoon (2016 a-g) Achill (2012 a-g) Films (selection) Leben für den Tod (2018 short d) Spur (2012 short d) jeux infinit (2002 a-g) Austria German/English Austria DCP 16:9 No dialog stereo HD 16:9 approx. 10 min stereo approx. 20 min Realisation Gudrun Krebitz Concept Sabine Parzer Krisztina Kerekes Completion 2021 Camera Krisztina Kerekes Editor Joana Scrinzi Contact Gudrun Krebitz Producer Krisztina Kerekes

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137 Never Meant to Be Seen nichts Elke Groen Timotheus Tomicek

Never Meant to Be Seen is a film about the The film nothing is a parable about laziness, nameless beauties of 35 mm films. Their serenity, inactivity, passivity, lethargy, brief appearances at the start of each film comfort, indifference, listlessness, inaction, reel may have given them the hope that this apathy, detachment, sluggishness. By could be the start of a movie career but are means of a convoluted narrative structure, actually used for laboratory density tests. the complex theme staged in the context of The so called “China girls” or “girl heads,” our zeitgeist is worked into a filmic allegory being looped, can wink, laugh and start to (simile). talk with women’s dialogs from movies of their period. The initial small talk leads into Timotheus Tomicek *1978 Vienna Austria a discussion what the idea of lascivious Films (selection) A Portrait of Marlene Dumas (2016 a-g) Katrin in Rom (2015 a-g) Jeff Wall posing for a material test is about. (2008 d)

Elke Groen *1969 Gmunden Austria Austria Films (selection) The Most Beautiful Place German (Eng sub) on Earth (2020 d) Bojo Beach (2017 a-g) RAW 4K CinemaScope 1:2.35 Optical Sound (co-director 2014 a-g) stereo approx. 15 min Austria No dialog Concept 35 mm CinemaScope 1:2.35 Timotheus Tomicek color/b&w Klaus Speidel Dolby SR approx. 8 min Completion 2021

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138__ 139 Avant-Garde Short in Production One Year Out of Sight Johann Lurf Eve Heller

The film documents a reservoir and its sur- The Währinger Friedhof in Vienna is a forgot- roundings over the course of a single year: ten Jewish cemetery marked by gravestones A static mounted camera records 24 hours eroding behind a high stone wall. The lives for 365 days without interruption. Exposure of people interred and their offspring overlap times initially last only a few seconds per with the rise of photochemical imaging, analog image, but their duration steadily increases. photography and film. Out of Sight is a cine­ At first the sun moves across the sky very matic song of remembrance and an elegy to slowly, but soon it quickens. By the end of fading histories woven out of imagery as tech- the film the sun appears as a long luminous nologically disparate as pin-hole photos, glass band of light. negatives and CinemaScopic film footage.

Johann Lurf *1982 Vienna Austria Eve Heller *1961 Northampton USA Films (selection) Cavalcade (2019 a-g) Films (selection) Creme 21 (2013 a-g) ★ (2017 a-g) Vertigo Rush (2007 a-g) Self-Examination Remote Control (2009 a-g) Ruby Skin (2005 a-g) Austria/France No dialog Austria 35 mm CinemaScope 1:2.35 No dialog Dolby Digital 35 mm CinemaScope 1:2.35 approx. 20 min b&w stereo approx. 22 min Realisation Johann Lurf Concept/Editor Eve Heller Camera Hans Selikovsky Completion 2022 Eve Heller, Peter Miller

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139 PUR re–GEO/ristrutturare qualcosa Josephine Ahnelt Michaela Schwentner

A personal Super-8 and Super-16 mm re–GEO/ristrutturare qualcosa is a poetic reflection about the filmmakers 13+ year approach to the Swiss germanist and long friendship with the designer of the sculptor Georgette Klein (1893–1963), about Viennese minimalist clothing label PUR. the (re)construction of her house in the Sometimes rough, sometimes ambivalent, form of a sketch, her artistic work and her always in admiration for the craft and its contradictory personality, with an eye to her philosophy. The designer herself prefers numerous diary entries and letters. to stay absent from the screen. An examination of a conceptual obsession. Michaela Schwentner *1970 Linz Austria Films (selection) zwischen mir und der welt/ Josephine Ahnelt *1987 Vienna Austria aufräumen (2020 short d) personne (2016 a-g) Films (selection) Winter Bees (2018 a-g) Penelope/In the scenery/Reflecting/Relations Venus & Periphery (2016 a-g) Tic Tac (2011 a-g) (2013–2015 a-g)

Austria Austria/Switzerland German (Eng sub) German/French/Italian (Eng sub) HD 16:9 4K 1:1.85 stereo color/b&w approx. 8 min Dolby Stereo approx. 45 min Concept Josephine Ahnelt Camera Serafin Spitzer Concept/Editor/Producer Editor Sebastian Schreiner Michaela Schwentner Key Cast Vivien Löschner Completion 2021 Aurelia Burckhardt, Nina Vobruba Camera Martin Putz Contact Michaela Schwentner Josephine Ahnelt Completion 2021

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140__ 141 Avant-Garde Short in Production Straight vs. Curved Talszenen Johannes Schiehsl Annja Krautgasser

What initially begins as a purely geometrical The film Valley Scenes concerns the mythol- visual argument grows into a bitter struggle ogy and mysticism of Paganism. The here between sense and sensuousness. By means and now becomes interwoven with the fear of wild metamorphoses, Curved attempts to of the unforeseeable – and also with the break through Straight. At the height of the ephemeral. The film is based on a Rhaetian argument, it becomes clear the battle is in song that is a significant literary historical fact the inner conflict plaguing our protago- document from Medieval times. To this very nist Straight, who in the end must decide if day, it holds a mirror to our own societal im- he prefers to sink into an ocean of sensuous- balances of power and gender inequalities. ness or ossify in the boredom of sense. Annja Krautgasser *1971 Hall/Tyrol Austria Johannes Schiehsl Films (selection) Kriegsszenen (2020 a-g) *1984 Wiener Neustadt Austria Dachszenen (2019 a-g) Waldszenen (2015 short f) Films (selection) Sternenjäger (2016 short f) 366 Tage (2011 short f) Zoopraxiscope (2009 a-g) Austria No dialog Austria/Germany HD 1:1.85 No dialog Dolby Stereo HD 16:9 approx. 25 min b&w stereo Concept/Editor/Producer approx. 5 min Annja Krautgasser Camera Martin Putz Concept Johannes Schiehsl Completion 2021 Producers Johannes Schiehsl Benjamin Swiczinsky, Conrad Tambour Contact Thomas Meyer-Hermann Annja Krautgasser Production NÖT Die Trickfilmer (AT) Studio Film Bilder (DE)

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141 Tehran Recyclers Train Again Nikki Schuster Peter Tscherkassky

Tehran Recyclers portrays the diverse 18 years after producing his third film, cultural, social and urban fabrics of this 3/60 Bäume im Herbst, Kurt Kren shot his city by means of experimental animation. masterpiece, 37/78 Tree Again, in the USA. The viewer is guided to urban hideouts 18 years after creating my third darkroom where little creatures dwell. These are film, L’Arrivée, as an homage to the Lumière digitally composed with collected trash and brothers and their film, L’Arrivée d’un train typical local products. The clatter of the en gare de La Ciotat (1895), I have embarked limbs of these creatures interacts with the on Train Again, the third film in my “Rushes” soundscapes of Tehran. series, as an homage to Kurt Kren that simultaneously taps into a profoundly loaded Nikki Schuster *1974 Steyr Austria motif in film history. (Peter Tscherkassky) Films (selection) animistica (2018 a-g) Mexico Recyclers (2016 a-g) absent (2015 a-g) Peter Tscherkassky *1958 Vienna Austria Films (selection) The Exquisite Corpus (2015 a-g) Austria/Germany Coming Attractions (2010 a-g) No dialog Outer Space (1999 a-g) HD 16:9 stereo Austria approx. 6 min No dialog 35 mm 1:1.37 Realisation b&w Nikki Schuster Dolby SR approx. 20 min Production Fiesfilm (DE) Concept Completion 2021 Peter Tscherkassky Editors Contact Peter Tscherkassky Nikki Schuster Eve Heller

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142__ 143 Avant-Garde Short in Production Video_70 Videoletter Dextro.org Karoline Riha

Video_70 accompanies Muehlengesang 3, Videoletter is a hybrid experimental anima- a piece of music by Alejandro del Valle- tion based on a visual dialog with Columbian Lattanzio, and is intended to visualize the filmmaker Cecilia Traslaviña. It is an audio- lifting of the veil, which prevents the view visual collage of digital and analog images, behind the world’s facade. which were recorded using different means to become rhythmically and structurally Dextro.org (= Walter Gorgosilits) merged into a loose narration. Abstracted *1968 Mödling Austria sequences alternate with figurative se- Films (selection) Video_67B (2015 a-g) Video_65 (2015 a-g) Video_64 (2014 a-g) quences as we accompany our protagonist on her journey. Austria No dialog Karoline Riha *1977 Vienna Austria HD 16:9 Films (selection) Spring (2020 a-g) Seen Unseen Dolby Stereo Scene (co-director 2018 a-g) Der Mann mit dem approx. 14 min bunten Ballon (co-director 2017 a-g)

Realisation Austria Dextro.org No dialog HD 16:9 Completion 2021 stereo approx. 20 min Contact Dextro.org Concept/Animation Karoline Riha Cecilia Traslaviña Screenplay/Camera/Editor Karoline Riha

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143 scholarships for young talents ———— Life on the Horn Mo Harawe Team Rafael Haider

Vom ersten letzten Sommer Malina Nwabuonwor

Who’s That Bird? Manu Molin

Zwischen Bildern Franzis Kabisch

Established in 2009, the Federal Coordination Office for the Promotion of Young Talent awards five Start-Up Grants for Young Film Artists a year, selected by an expert jury. The program offers not only financial support but also professional guidance by experts in the field, thereby aiming to create favorable conditions for the young filmmakers to develop their projects.

146__ 147 Scholarships for Young Talents Life on the Horn Team Mo Harawe Rafael Haider

Fiction Fiction

It has been over the course of several de- Werner has been working 20 years as a cades that Europeans, above all the former sales person for the Mandl printing com- colonial power Italy – have been dumping pany and feels he is not adequately chal- illegal toxic garbage in the ocean at the lenged. The past few months he has been Horn of Africa, allegedly in exchange for attending a course on team-building and arms shipments to local warring parties. mediation where he believes he has dis- Since the 2004 earthquake and subsequent covered his calling. At the Mandl company tsunami devastated the region, the Somali he now sees unresolved conflicts and inef- coastal area is contaminated. The film tells ficient team-work everywhere he looks. He this story elliptically, near wordlessly, find- convinces his boss Alice to allow him to ing precise and highly sensitive images to organize a collective team-building week- register this chronic violence – in gazes, end. Creating more conflicts than it solves, gestures, landscapes. the weekend culminates in a struggle for survival. Mo Harawe *1992 Mogadishu Somalia Films (selection) 1947 (2020 short f) Die Rafael Haider *1989 Oberndorf Austria Geschichte vom Eisbär, der nach Afrika wollte Films (selection) Das erste und das letzte Mal (2018 short f) Ein letztes Mal (2016 short f) (2018 short d) Esel – Carry on (2015 short f)

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147 Vom ersten letzten Sommer Who’s That Bird? Malina Nwabuonwor Manu Molin

Fiction Experimental Animation

A village, a young girl from the city, her Charlotte (10), who is under great pressure strange family, her dying grandfather, a lady to perform, feels left alone by absent parents funeral director, a precocious young boy who confine her in the corset of a precisely proposing bizarre solutions and a clumsy bull planned everyday life. When the kakapo, an terrier who is perhaps the incarnation of the owl parrot that has been declared extinct, hellhound Cerberus himself: This is a curi- unexpectedly enters her life, she discovers ous story about first encounters with death, her courage and learns to enjoy life with fun. told in small episodes across the course of a Aroused by this special friendship, Charlotte Summer. About the first last summer. not only turns her life upside down, but also helps her friend to find his home. This throws Malina Nwabuonwor *1994 Linz Austria the everyday life of her stressed parents completely off track and ultimately turns the Contact Malina Nwabuonwor whole city upside down.

Manu Molin *1983 Vienna Austria Films (selection) Eiskarl (co-director 2014 short animation) Sabine (2010 short f) Emily Winter (2007 short animation)

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148__ 149 Scholarships for Young Talents Zwischen Bildern Franzis Kabisch

Experimental Documentary

The documentary film project Between ­Images concerns how abortion is represented in movies and TV shows, from silent films of the 1920ies through Hollywood classics like Dirty Dancing, to the long-running German soap opera Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten, first broadcast in 1992. The film portrays women who themselves have had abortions and shows them together watching, questioning and commenting on found footage scenes presenting stereotypes, clichés as well as empowering moments. Between Images ­follows a non-linear narrative about abortion, representation, and the power of images.

Franzis Kabisch *1990 Münster Germany Films (selection) A Film About the Desire to Make It Work (2018 short f, a-g) Deklinationen, or: Can I inherit my dead parents’ debts? (2016 a-g) Ein Film (2012 a-g)

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149 pixel, bytes & film ———— Digital change is continuously Since 2015, the initiative has been influencing the production and work­ing in cooperation with Austrian reception of contemporary art, and public broadcasting TV channel ORF III, due to ever increasing possibilities to make the program artworks acces- in the field of digital image sible to a broader audience while also production, this especially impacts providing participating artists exclusive the field of audio-visual art. access to technical infrastructure and archives of ORF III. The ongoing availability of new tech­ nologies allows for and encourages Additional cooperating partners in this new approaches to the moving year’s edition of the program include ­image across space and time, and it stakeholders and start-up’s in Austria’s results in highly innovative formats XR scene, such as sound:frame, Junge that ­examine and expand the notion Römer – Creative Production Studio, of ­narration as well as challenge a XR Vienna, and arx anima, further pro- critical inventory of the latter. moting and deepening the exchange of knowledge and skills between the arts It is for this reason that in 2011 the and creative industry. Film Department of the Division for Arts and Culture initiated an Meanwhile, go-international – a funding annual funding program for New source to provide Austrian support for Film Formats, entitled Pixel, Bytes entering global markets, offered by the & Film. This program supports a Austrian Federal Economic Chamber selection of experimental audio-visual (WKÖ) – has contributed to help make projects dealing with digital media the program visible internationally. and related image production, and exploring the boundaries of film and In October 2019, the following nine audio-visual art. projects were selected for funding.

152__ 153 Pixel, Bytes & Film Brut & Parasit Civil Dusk Ganaël Dumreicher, Carla David Uzochukwu Veltman, Martin Eichler Documentary Fiction Experimental Documentary

The bark beetle kills trees. Its massive pro- Civil dusk: evening twilight. The film intro- liferation is a consequence of the man-made duces a civil era in Uzochukwu’s relation- climate catastrophe and monoculture as ship with his father, reconsidering post-colo- opposed to nature. Trekking a landscape nial notions of (be)longing. A homesick Igbo impacted by change, we follow the beetle father turns to sand amidst his European through the ongoing process of destruction family, as he raises a house in his Nigerian till the insect arrives at the door of our own family village from afar. He thereby follows habitat. Scenarios are constructed employ- a tradition rooted in the Biafran War. What ing 3D laser scans of real locations and ground is solid enough to build on? constructed atmospheres; the bark beetle symbolizes our potential future as it enters David Uzochukwu *1998 Innsbruck Austria our own homes. Films (selection) Götterdämmerung (co-director 2020 short f)

Carla Veltman *1996 Schwaz/Tyrol Austria Contact Martin Eichler *1996 Brno Czech Republic David Uzochukwu Ganaël Dumreicher *1996 Vienna Austria Films (selection) Voy (2020 music video) Matteboyz (2017 music video) Indianopolis (2014 d, a-g)

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153 The Entropy Gardens HYPERmnesia Leonhard Lass Anna Lerchbaumer Gregor Ladenhauf Andreas Zißler Virtual Reality Experience Avant-Garde Fiction

The Entropy Gardens by DEPART (= Lass/ HYPERmnesia is the dissection of the screen Ladenhauf) is a unique VR experience that surface.This is not text but pixels behind puts visitors inside a constantly changing glass. This is where HYPERmnesia begins: horticultural environment. Investigating one a sensual exploration of a world in which of the most archetypical artforms, it chal- memory, landscape and their pictorial lenges its myths, aesthetics and modes of medialization collapse. A hike, a scanning of perception by combining poetry and genera- a forest surface, a high-resolution recording tive coding to construct a spellbinding and of the past and its threads, pipes and surreal utopian place. Formally it consists pipelines into the future. The further one of an audiovisual 3D environment that com- moves through the thicket, the stronger the bines “realistic” natural elements with ab- suspicion grows that one is only moving on stract, computational forms. It is populated a screen. by structures that resemble plants, organic and anorganic matter and evolve through Anna Lerchbaumer *1989 Innsbruck Austria interactions with their environment. Andreas Zißler *1989 Bad Aibling Germany Films (selection) search-me-as.jpeg Leonhard Lass 1978 *Linz Austria (2020 video installation)

Gregor Ladenhauf *1978 Vienna Austria Contact Films (selection) The Transient Shadows Anna Lerchbaumer (2020 animated short) The Lacuna Shifts Andreas Zißler (2017 virtual reality experience) The Eidolon Splits (2015 interactive installation)

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154__ 155 Pixel, Bytes & Film Infra-Ordinary Palm Trees Make You Need Me Marlies Pöschl Samuel Traber

360° VR Film 360° VR Music Video

Infra-Ordinary Palm Trees is a virtual reality In a scary utopia we follow electronic trash project about the outsourcing of old age. It on its way to a gigantic space dump. We are is a displaced “Heimatroman” or homeland in a rocket transporting old TVs, mobiles, novel about a village that looks like every computers and toys. In zero gravity the other Swiss village. On the one hand, the broken screens start to flicker, play the film shows everyday life in a nursing home song and seem like an A.I. singing to you. for European seniors in Thailand, on the “I can make you want me, but I can’t make other hand it shares the inhabitants’ memo- you need me...” The rocket opens and all ries of their home in Europe. The project the trash floats in an orbit of waste cycling combines documentary scenes with staged the earth. sequences to allow temporal layers to coex- ist side by side. Samuel Traber *1986 Leutschach Austria Films (selection) Würmlas Wände (2020 short d) Marlies Pöschl *1982 Salzburg Austria Botanic Matters (2020 animation) Films (selection) Aurore (2019 short d, a-g) In, Out - 5kHD (2019 music video) Cinema Cristal (2017 a-g) Sternheim (2011 short d, f) Contact Samuel Traber Contact Marlies Pöschl

155 Mukbang The Soul at Work Susanna Flock Ursula Mayer

Avant-Garde Short Documentary Fiction

Boiled eggs, omelette, sunny-side up eggs, Speculative scenarios of the future are poached eggs, egg-in-a-glass, scrambled gener­ated through an interplay between eggs, custard royale, beaten egg-whites: shots of transwoman Valentijn de Hingh and While protagonists in an eating show (aka the production of her digital double. The Mukbang) consume dishes made solely of “cyborg” serves as a point of departure for eggs, the film touches on the ambivalence initiating discussions about post-human em- of the world – a world increasingly intercon- bodiment and new technologies. The avatar nected via new technologies and pressed here stands in as a generative metaphor for ever closer together, yet characterized by a the development of feminist discourse within growing loneliness. technological contexts.

Susanna Flock *1988 Graz Austria Ursula Mayer *1970 Ried/Innkreis Austria Films (selection) I don’t exist yet (2020 a-g) Films (selection) The Fire of Knowledge Burns Fetish Finger (2016 a-g) All Karma to Ashes (2019 HD endless loop cross­ media) Atom Spirit (2017 a-g) Medea (2013 a-g) Contact Susanna Flock Contact Ursula Mayer

156__ 157 Pixel, Bytes & Film Wenn die Welt zu Ende geht, werde ich dich geliebt haben. Gloria Gammer Avant-Garde Fiction

Andy uploads his mind to “Digital World,” just before the real world goes up in flames and his fleshly body dies. His consciousness gets stuck in Digital World. Nothing is like before: He is unable to relate to his feelings and has to realize that his thinking is slowly changing too. When the World Comes to an End, I Will Have Loved You.

Gloria Gammer *1985 Linz Austria Films (selection) 2268, Früher (2019 short d) Tingle Tingle (2019 short d) The Red Face and Five Stars (2012 short d)

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157 contact addresses ———— Production Companies

Amerikafilm Golden Girls Filmproduktion moving mountains films Feurigstraße 62 Seidengasse 15/20 Lenaustraße 14 10827 Berlin/Germany 1070 Vienna/Austria 12047 Berlin/Germany +49 172 966 03 85 +43 1 810 56 36 +49 176 823 229 56 www.amerikafilm.de www.goldengirls.at www.movingm.com www.rosercorella.com berg hammer film groen.film Karin Berghammer Neubaugasse 52/36 Nabis Filmgroup Tandelmarktgasse 8/16 1070 Vienna/Austria Michael-Walz-Gasse 18c 1020 Vienna/Austria +43 1 944 18 93 5020 Salzburg/Austria +43 699 171 189 69 www.groenfilm.at +43 650 230 30 44 www.berghammerfilm.at www.nabisfilm.com hammelfilm Con Art Film Johannes Hammel NÖT Die Trickfilmer 1050 Vienna/Austria Film- und Videoproduktion Landstraßer Hauptstr. 98/3/21 [email protected] Schönbrunner Straße 14a/19 1030 Vienna/Austria www.conartflm.com 1050 Vienna/Austria +43 680 500 89 73 +43 699 110 064 13 www.trickfilmer.at Cronos Film [email protected] Schwindgasse 11/2 Panama Film 1040 Vienna/Austria Horse&Fruits Geusaugasse 31/4 +43 1 961 05 22 Filmproduktion 1030 Vienna/Austria www.cronos.at Zieglergasse 63/2 +43 1 945 51 13 1070 Vienna/Austria www.panama-film.com Daniela Praher +43 1 924 06 63 Filmproduktion www.horseandfruits.com Pavel Cuzuioc Filmproduktion Große Sperlgasse 32-34/5 Kohlgasse 9/13 1020 Vienna/Austria Joerg Burger Filmproduktion 1050 Vienna/Austria +43 650 341 74 60 Gartengasse 18/21 +43 699 171 050 24 www.praherfilm.at 1050 Vienna/Austria www.pavelcuzuioc.com +43 699 104 586 47 European Film Conspiracy www.joergburger.com PLAESION Film + Vision Gumpendorfer Str. 10-12/23 Schlosshofer Straße 8/4/3 1060 Vienna/Austria Martin Putz Filmproduktion 2301 Groß-Enzersdorf/Austria www.europeanfilm Neubaugasse 7/63 +43 660 213 69 66 conspiracy.com 1070 Vienna/Austria www.plaesion.com +43 676 338 84 39 FreibeuterFilm www.martinputz.com RAUMZEITFILM Produktion Turmburggasse 2-8/5/2 Rasumofskygasse 21 1060 Vienna/Austria Mischief Films 1030 Vienna/Austria +43 720 34 65 10 Goethegasse 1/Hof 2/Stg. 4 +43 660 477 33 46 www.freibeuterfilm.at 1010 Vienna/Austria www.raumzeitfilm.com +43 1 585 232 423 www.mischief-films.com

160__ 161 Contact Addresses Sales Directors

Soleil Film sixpackfilm Josephine Ahnelt Linke Wienzeile 142/13 Neubaugasse 45/13 1020 Vienna/Austria 1060 Vienna/Austria 1070 Vienna/Austria www.josephineahnelt.com +43 699 123 974 78 +43 1 526 09 90-0 www.soleilfilm.at [email protected] Matthias van Baaren www.sixpackfilm.com matthiasvanbaaren Studio Brauneis @yahoo.de Tongasse 9/14 1030 Vienna/Austria Veronika Barnaš +43 699 171 506 90 1090 Vienna/Austria [email protected] www.veronikabarnas.net

Susanne Brandstätter Sybille Bauer Filmproduktion 1090 Vienna/Austria Florianigasse 60/14 www.sybillebauer.com 1080 Vienna/Austria +43 676 500 78 49 Dominik Brauweiler www.susannebrandstaetter.com 53115 Bonn/Germany www.thislandismyland-film.com [email protected]

The Raven Films Jakob Brossmann Josefstädter Straße 16/6-7 1020 Vienna/Austria 1080 Vienna/Austria www.finali.at +43 676 938 97 67 www.theravenfilms.com Milena Czernovsky czernovsky_milena Vento Film @hotmail.com Leitermayergasse 33/20 1180 Vienna/Austria Josef Dabernig +43 1 406 03 92 1030 Vienna/Austria www.ventofilm.com www.dabernig.net

WILDart FILM Claudia Dermutz Pfeilgasse 32/1 8813 St. Lambrecht/Austria 1080 Vienna/Austria [email protected] +43 1 595 29 91 www.wildartfilm.com Dextro.org www.dextro.org

Ganaël Dumreicher 1070 Vienna/Austria [email protected]

Philipp Fleischmann [email protected]

161 Directors

Susanna Flock Harald Hund Gregor Ladenhauf 1030 Vienna/Austria www.haraldhund.com 1050 Vienna/Austria www.susannaflock.net www.depart.at Franzis Kabisch Maximilian Fürst 1080 Vienna/Austria Leonhard Lass 1040 Vienna/Austria www.franziskabisch.net 1070 Vienna/Austria [email protected] www.depart.at Eginhartz Kanter Gloria Gammer 4020 Linz/Austria Anna Lerchbaumer 12057 Berlin/Germany [email protected] 1070 Vienna/Austria www.rainbowwarrior.at www.annalerchbaumer.com Krisztina Kerekes Alireza Ghanie 3423 St. Andrä-Wördern/ Wolf-Maximilian Liebich 5020 Salzburg/Austria Austria 1080 Vienna/Austria [email protected] [email protected] www.wmliebich.com

Sophie Gmeiner Florian Kindlinger Johann Lurf 10247 Berlin/Germany www.kutinkindlinger.com 1010 Vienna/Austria www.schieferfilm.com www.johannlurf.net Karl-Heinz Klopf Rafael Haider 1020 Vienna/Austria Gabriele Mathes 1010 Vienna/Austria www.khklopf.at 1140 Vienna/Austria [email protected] [email protected] Florian Kogler Amina Handke 1020 Vienna/Austria Ursula Mayer 1060 Vienna/Austria [email protected] 1070 Vienna/Austria www.amina.at www.ursulamayer.com Dariusz Kowalski Mo Harawe 1160 Vienna/Austria Manu Molin 1100 Vienna/Austria www.dariuszkowalski.org 1120 Vienna/Austria [email protected] www.manumolin.com Annja Krautgasser Eve Heller 1100 Vienna/Austria Kálmán Nagy [email protected] [email protected] 1190 Vienna/Austria [email protected] Bernhard Hetzenauer Lilith Kraxner 4048 Puchenau/Austria [email protected] Christian Neubacher www.facesofathens.com [email protected] Gudrun Krebitz Rebecca Hirneise www.gudrunkrebitz.com Clemens Niel 1060 Vienna/Austria 4020 Linz/Austria [email protected] Martina Kudláček www.clemensniel.at [email protected] Hans Hochstöger Malina Nwabuonwor 1030 Vienna/Austria Peter Kutin 4113 Sankt Martin/Austria www.hanshochstoeger.com www.kutinkindlinger.com [email protected]

162__ 163 Contact Addresses Directors

Bernd Oppl Constanze Ruhm Dominik Galleya Tendl 1040 Vienna/Austria 3002 Purkersdorf/Austria 4020 Linz/Austria [email protected] [email protected] www.dominikgalleya.com

Valérie Pelet Albert Sackl Timotheus Tomicek 1170 Vienna/Austria 1200 Vienna/Austria 1080 Vienna/Austria [email protected] www.albertsackl.com [email protected]

Caspar Pfaundler Sebastian Schmidl Samuel Traber 1020 Vienna/Austria [email protected] 8010 Graz/Austria [email protected] www.funkeundglanz.com Fridolin Schönwiese Franziska Pflaum 1030 Vienna/Austria Peter Tscherkassky 1030 Vienna/Austria [email protected] 1010 Vienna/Austria [email protected] [email protected] Lotte Schreiber Maria Lisa Pichler 1150 Vienna/Austria David Uzochukwu c/o Luise Müller www.lotteschreiber.com 12045 Berlin/Germany 1090 Vienna/Austria www.daviduzochukwu.com [email protected] Nikki Schuster 10243 Berlin/Germany Borjana Ventzislavova Marlies Pöschl www.fiesfilm.com 1040 Vienna/Austria 1020 Vienna/Austria www.borjana.net www.marliespoeschl.net Manfred Schwaba 1230 Vienna/Austria Jola Wieczorek Jan Prazak www.schwaba.at 4812 Ohlsdorf/Austria 1080 Vienna/Austria www.jolawieczorek.com [email protected] Christoph Schwarz 1090 Vienna/Austria Conny Zenk Ulrike Putzer www.christophschwarz.net 1150 Vienna/Austria 1060 Vienna/Austria www.connyzenk.com [email protected] Michaela Schwentner 1040 Vienna/Austria Andreas Zißler Ella Raidel www.jade-enterprises.at www.andreaszissler.com 1060 Vienna/Austria www.ellaraidel.com Katharina Simunic Markus Zizenbacher 1160 Vienna/Austria 1080 Vienna/Austria Adele Razkövi [email protected] [email protected] 3192 Hohenberg/Austria www.adeleworks.com Simon Spitzer Petra Zöpnek 1200 Vienna/Austria 1080 Vienna/Austria Karoline Riha [email protected] [email protected] 2103 Langenzersdorf/Austria www.karolineriha.at Monika Stuhl Antoinette Zwirchmayr 1050 Vienna/Austria 1050 Vienna/Austria [email protected] www.antoinettezwirchmayr.com

163 index ———— Index Films

14/15...... 132 Geschichten eines Sanatorium Druzhba...... 128 2551.01...... 62 Jungen, einer Frau Der schönste Platz und eines Soldaten...... 136 auf Erden...... 49 All the Stops...... 62 Gli appunti di Anna Azzori...... 46 Sigmund Freud. Alterlaa – 27 Storeys...... 80 Glory to the Queen...... 47 Jude ohne Gott...... 50 Am Gang...... 58 Die guten Plätze...... 117 Soldat Ahmet...... 74 Das andere Ende The Soul at Work...... 156 der Straße...... 115 Heat...... 136 Sparschwein...... 75 Der antifaschistische Zoo...... 133 HLS/Hasenleiten Stories...... 127 Stories From the Sea...... 102 Atlantis...... 115 HYPERmnesia...... 154 Straight vs. Curved...... 141 Auf dem Grund Infra-Ordinary Palm Trees...... 155 Swimming Pool...... 76 des Wäschekorbes...... 133 Ingo und Maja...... 117 Auf der Suche nach Tagebuch eines Interweaving...... 137 der gestohlenen Zeit...... 81 Optimisten...... 103 it works 20...... 89 Augusts Orte...... 124 Die Tagträume Aus der Wunderwelt...... 82 Just Be There...... 90 des Nikolaus Habjan...... 104 Talszenen...... 141 Beatrix...... 71 Krai...... 91 Tauchen...... 120 Before I Die...... 83 Kurt Kren...... 92 Team...... 147 Bitte warten ...... 44 Left to Die...... 93 Tehran Recyclers...... 142 Die brennende Nacht...... 72 The Life of Sean DeLear...... 94 This Land Is My Land...... 51 Brut & Parasit...... 153 Life on the Horn...... 147 Those Next to Us...... 128 ...... Cargo Carriers 134 Make You Need Me...... 155 Tovo 64 ...... Carla Lonzi – Ein Porträt Mein Satz...... 118 Train Again 142 ...... zweiter Ordnung 84 Mirrors...... 95 The Trouble With ...... Casting Tapes 55 Mukbang...... 156 Being Born 41 Children’s Film...... 58 My Room...... 96 Verabredung im Herbst...... 77 Civil Dusk...... 153 ...... Nachts im Bach...... 137 Verwandlung 129 ...... Dariush 85 Never Meant to Be Seen...... 138 Video_70 143 Davos...... 45 News From Home. Videoletter...... 143 ...... Dear Darkness 116 News to Home...... 110 Vom ersten letzten ...... Dreaming Dogs and nichts...... 138 Sommer 148 ...... Barking Men 86 Nur ein Augenblick...... 97 Vor dem Verschwinden/ Izginjanje...... 105 ...... Endphase 87 One Year...... 139 Entlang der Körper...... 125 Order in Chaos – Was eine Familie ...... The Entropy Gardens 154 Chaos in Order...... 98 leisten kann 59 ...... Erinnerungsrauschen 134 Ordinary Creatures...... 40 Was man empfindet, ...... Europe, Can You See Me? 125 Out of Sight...... 139 ist Angst 120 Eva-Maria...... 88 Was soll man machen – EXT...... 135 Paraísos...... 99 Vor Entzücken?...... 111 A Pile of Ghosts...... 127 We have more than Fahren...... 59 Pomp...... 63 beds to dream in...... 65 Fify Ibrahim hört auf! A proposal to project Wenn die Welt zu Ende Fify Ibrahim hört auf?...... 126 in Scope...... 64 geht, werde ich Filmkorrespondenz...... 63 PUR...... 140 dich geliebt haben...... 157 Fireworks...... 116 Where Is Ida?...... 121 Folgenlos – A Film Read My Breasts...... 100 Where Is Lotte?...... 65 Without Consequences...... 73 re–GEO/ristrutturare Who’s That Bird?...... 148 Frauenfragmente: qualcosa...... 140 Wind...... 129 Gini und Resi...... 126 Reisen...... 118 From Endlessness Rösl’s Suitcase...... 101 Zusammenleben...... 106 to Infinity...... 135 Room Without a View...... 48 Zwischen Bildern...... 149 Rosa im Schloss...... 119 Zwischennutzung...... 107 Ruletista!...... 119

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Ahnelt Josephine...... 140 Kaaserer Ruth...... 24 Raidel Ella...... 127 Kabisch Franzis...... 149 Rauchensteiner Meinhard...... 133 Baaren van Matthias...... 55 Kanter Eginhartz...... 134 Razkövi Adele...... 133 Barnaš Veronika...... 59 Kerekes Krisztina...... 137 Rechinsky Juri...... 83 Bauer Sybille...... 59 Khazaradze Anna...... 47 Riha Karoline...... 143 Böck Hannes...... 27 Kindlinger Florian...... 136 Rinner Lukas Valenta...... 119 Brandstätter Susanne...... 51 Klopf Karl-Heinz...... 135 Ruhm Constanze...... 46, 84 Brauneis Sebastian...... 77 Kogler Florian...... 117 Brauweiler Dominik...... 115 Kowalski Dariusz...... 107 Sackl Albert...... 132 Brossmann Jakob...... 73 Krautgasser Annja...... 141 Salomonowitz Anja...... 100 Burger Joerg...... 97 Kraxner Lilith...... 71 Schiehsl Johannes...... 141 Krebitz Gudrun...... 137 Schmid Viktoria...... 64 Corella Roser...... 48 Kremser Elsa...... 86 Schmidl Sebastian...... 116 Covi Tizza...... 103 Kudláček Martina...... 32, 92 Schönwiese Fridolin...... 89 Cuzuioc Pavel...... 44, 98 Kutin Peter...... 136 Schreiber Lotte...... 127 Czernovsky Milena...... 71 Schuster Nikki...... 142 Ladenhauf Gregor...... 154 Schwaba Manfred...... 63 Dabernig Josef...... 62 Ladner Lukas...... 88 Schwarz Christoph...... 75 Daschner Katrina...... 63 Lapin Aleksey...... 91 Schwentner Michaela...... 140 Dermutz Claudia...... 58 Lass Leonhard...... 154 sebastian j. f...... 93 Dextro.org...... 143 Lennard Elizabeth...... 101 Simunic Katharina...... 125 Dumreicher Ganaël...... 153 Lenz Jannis...... 74 Skhirtladze Tatia...... 47 Durst Alice...... 82 Lerchbaumer Anna...... 154 Spitzer Simon...... 129 Liebich Wolf-Maximilian...... 119 Steiner Thomas...... 64 Eichler Martin...... 153 Lurf Johann...... 139 Stuhl Monika...... 96

Flock Susanna...... 156 Malinowski Filip Antoni...... 76 Teboul David...... 50 Frimmel Rainer...... 103 Marschall Thomas...... 40 Tendl Dominik Galleya...... 120 Fürhapter Thomas...... 106 Mathes Gabriele...... 126 Tomicek Timotheus...... 138 Fürst Maximilian...... 118 Mayer Ursula...... 156 Traber Samuel...... 155 Molin Manu...... 148 Trischler Clara...... 99 Gammer Gloria...... 157 Mračnikar Andrina...... 105 Tscherkassky Peter...... 142 Ghanie Alireza...... 95 Müller Luise...... 85 Gleissinger Bianca...... 80 Uzochukwu David...... 153 Gmeiner Sophie...... 126 Nagy Kálmán...... 115 Groen Elke...... 49, 138 Nasmyth Laura...... 135 Veltman Carla...... 153 Neubacher Christian...... 82 Ventzislavova Borjana...... 110 Haider Rafael...... 147 Niel Clemens...... 120 Hammel Johannes...... 72, 104 Niemann Julia...... 45 Wakolbinger Konrad...... 81 Handke Amina...... 58, 118 Nwabuonwor Malina...... 148 Wieczorek Jola...... 102 Harawe Mo...... 147 Wollner Sandra...... 41 Heller Eve...... 139 Ofner Astrid Johanna...... 111 Hetzenauer Bernhard...... 128 Oppl Bernd...... 65 Zenk Conny...... 134 Hirneise Rebecca...... 120 Zißler Andreas...... 154 Hochstöger Hans...... 87 Pelet Valérie...... 124 Zizenbacher Markus...... 94 Hoesl Daniel...... 45 Peter Levin...... 86 Zöpnek Petra...... 65, 121 Hund Harald...... 128 Pfaffenbichler Norbert...... 62 Zwirchmayr Pfaundler Caspar...... 90 Antoinette...... 63, 116, 125 Pflaum Franziska...... 136 Pöschl Marlies...... 155 Prazak Jan...... 117 Putz Martin...... 129 Putzer Ulrike...... 55

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