/2016/ Austrian Films Coming Soon /2016/ Austrian Films Coming Soon Austrian Films 2016 – Coming Soon Published/Copyright by: Austrian Film Commission Stiftgasse 6 1070 Vienna – Austria tel +43 1 526 33 23
[email protected] www.AustrianFilms.Com www.afc.at Publisher: Martin Schweighofer Editors: Charlotte Rühm, Karin Schiefer, Brigitte Weich Graphic design: Perndl+Co Printed by: REMAprint Litteradruck, Vienna Introduction A new year is upon us and the award season is Seventeen. Or Ulrich Seidl’s Auf Safari – when in full swing. For Austrian films the results are the notorious Mr. Seidl explores the world of as encouraging as the outlook promising. Martin hard core Safaristas then it certainly is not go- Gschlacht was honored by the European Film ing to be a cozy affair. Or: Virgil Widrich’s The Academy as Best Cinematographer of the year. Night Of A Thousand Hours is a mind bending Goodnight Mommy, Veronika Franz’ and Severin trip through time and buried family secrets. Fiala’s creepy psycho drama, which broke the Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel are back with the one million dollar US box office barrier, col- mysterious Mr. Universo. A nine-year-old girl lected a bundle of rave reviews and made it onto finds her way through the dust and debris of the several international year’s best lists. And two aftermath of WWII Vienna in Mirjam films are shortlisted for an Oscar nomination: for Unger’s Maikäfer Flieg. Marie Kreutzer’s dram- Hubert Sauper’s African neocolonial essay We edy Was hat uns bloss so ruiniert follows three Come As Friends it could be the Academy’s Best thirty-something couples who admirably fail Documentary Award and for Patrick Vollrath’s trying so hard not to become bourgeois.