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/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. Josef Everything Will Be Okay, which already won a Hader’s debut Wilde Maus tells the story of a Student Academy Award, it would be the Short journalist who decides it’s good to get mad but Film Oscar. But that is still a long way off ... much better to get even. Michael Ostrowski and Helmut Köpping try to drum up a storm The international festival year for us traditionally with Hotel Rock’n’Roll – adding a final chapter reaches its first peak with the Berlin Film Fes- to Michael Glawogger’s Sex, Drugs & Rock’n’ tival. At the time of writing this introduction the Roll trilogy. world premieres confirmed so far are: Ruth Beck- And somewhere on the horizon a new Michael ermann’s subtle Die Geträumten (The Dreamed Haneke film is looming, but it will probably ma- Ones), based on the longing letters exchanged terialize only in 2017. between Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann, Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s eloquent but wordless ode The 2016 Austrian Films Coming Soon catalogue to humanity, Homo Sapiens, and Händl Klaus’ is an extension of our Austrian Films Review arousing couple-in-distress drama Tomcat 2015 yearbook of theatrically released films. (Kater). And then of course there will be some Regardless of where you pick it up, I sincerely more, much more in fact as you will see browsing hope you put it to good use. this Coming Soon brochure. Wishing you inspiring, surprising and challeng- ing encounters. Let me highlight a few: Monja Art’s self-assured debut film about teenage angst and confusion Martin Schweighofer for example, which carries the telling title Executive Director 3 Fiction Films Fiction Attack Of The Lederhosen- zombies Directed by Dominik Hartl Zombie action in the Alps: a English, German / digital / 1:2.35 / 80 min group of an all-night après-ski Key cast Laurie Calvert, Gabriela Marcinková, party soon turns into a hellish Oscar Dyekjær Giese, Margarethe Tiesel nightmare of zombie mayhem. Written by Dominik Hartl, Armin Prediger Cinematography Andreas Thalhammer, Xiaosu Han Editing Daniel Prochaska Completion Production design Florian Kaposi expected spring 2016 Producer Markus Fischer Production company Fischer Film Supported by Austrian Film Institute, FISA, ORF, Cine Art, Land Niederösterreich, Land Oberösterreich and BLS Südtirol Contact Fischer Film Neustiftgasse 32-34 1070 Vienna – Austria tel +43 1 524 74 25 [email protected] www.fischerfilm.com Dominik Hartl Filmography (selection): 2015 Beautiful Girl (fiction), 2012 Spitzendeckchen (short), 2010 Bis einer weint (short), 2010 Drop in (short), 2008 Iron & Butterfly (short) 6 Fiction Auf Reisen On The Road Directed by Michael Kreihsl Stories about citizens of a big German / digital / 1:1.85 / 88 min city who encounter a variety Key cast Devid Striesow, Norman Hacker, Silke of fates as a result of their Bodenbender, Otto Schenk, Gerti Drassl difficulties in communicating Written by Michael Kreihsl with each other. They all share Cinematography Reinhold Vorschneider a longing for intimacy – and Editing Andrea Wagner the inability to achieve it. Production design Julia Libiseller A series of incidents, some Producers Michael Katz, Veit Heiduschka lucky and some unlucky, brings Production company WEGA Filmproduktion these people together and then Supported by Austrian Film Institute, ORF, drives them apart, like atoms Vienna Film Fund who combine briefly only to go Contact WEGA Filmproduktion Hägelingasse 13 their different ways again. 1140 Vienna – Austria tel +43 1 982 57 42 [email protected] Completion www.wega-film.at expected spring 2016 Michael Kreihsl Filmography (selection): 2011 Weihnachtsengel küsst man nicht (TV), 2009 Der Täter (TV), 2004 Mein Vater, meine Frau und meine Geliebte (TV), 2000 Heimkehr der Jäger, 1996 Charms Zwischenfälle 7 Fiction Deckname Holec Codename Holec Directed by Franz Novotny Young director Honza Nemec German, Czech / digital / 1:1.85 / 100 min films the Russian invasion in Key cast Johannes Zeiler, Vica Kerekes, Prague in August 1968. With Krystof Hadek Eva – the love of his life – he Written by Alrun Fichtenbauer, Franz Novotny, tries to get out of the country. Martin Leidenfrost He wants to bring the explo- Cinematography Robert Oberrainer sive material to Vienna, to the Editing Karin Hammer director of Austrian Television Production design Martin Reiter Helmut Zilk. He knows Eva very Producers Franz Novotny, Alexander Glehr, Monika Kristl, Vlasta Kristl well – but the Czech Secret Production companies Novotny & Novotny Film, Service even better. Dawson Films (CZ) Supported by Austrian Film Institute, FISA, ORF, Vienna Film Fund, Land Niederösterreich Completion and Ceská Televize, Statni Fond expected spring 2016 Kinematografie Contact Novotny & Novotny Filmproduktion Weimarerstraße 22 1180 Vienna – Austria tel +43 1 478 71 70 [email protected] www.novotnyfilm.at Franz Novotny Filmography (selection): 2003 YU (fiction), 1995 Exit II – Verklärte Nacht (fiction), 1990 Die Spitzen der Gesellschaft (fiction), 1982 Die Ausgesperrten (TV), 1997 Exit – Nur keine Panik (fiction) 8 Fiction Die Geträumten The Dreamed Ones Completed Directed by Ruth Beckermann The themes of love and hate German / digital / 16:9 / 89 min are depicted in the movie The Key cast Anja Plaschg, Laurence Rupp Dreamed Ones. At center stage Written by Ina Hartwig, Ruth Beckermann are the two poets Ingeborg Cinematography Johannes Hammel Bachmann and Paul Celan, Editing Dieter Pichler who came to know each other Producer Hanne Lassl in post-war Vienna. Their dra- Production company Ruth Beckermann Filmproduktion matic postal exchange creates Supported by Austrian Film Institute, FISA, ORF the textual basis of the film. Contact Ruth Beckermann Filmproduktion Two young actors meet in a Marc-Aurel-Straße 5 recording studio to read the 1010 Vienna – Austria tel +43 699 115 074 98 letters. The tumultuous emo- [email protected] tions of proximity and distance, www.ruthbeckermann.com fascination and fear captivate them. However they also enjoy each other’s company, arguing, smoking, discussing their tat- toos and favourite music. Yes- terday’s love, today’s love and tomorrow’s: where the lines are blurred lies the heart of the film. Ruth Beckermann Filmography (selection): 2013 Those who go Those who stay (doc.), 2011 American Passages (doc.), 2006 Zorros Bar Mizwa (doc.), 2001 homemad(e) (doc.), 1999 Ein flüchtiger Zug nach dem Orient (doc.) 9 Fiction Die Liebhaberin The Decent Directed by Lukas Valenta Rinner A housemaid, working in an ex- Spanish / digital / 1:2.35 / 70 min clusive gated community in the Key cast Iride Mockert, Martin Shanly outskirts of Buenos Aires, em- Written by Ana Godoy, Ariel Gurevich, Lukas V. Rinner, barks on a journey of sexual and Martin Shanly mental liberation in a nudist Cinematography Roman Kasseroller, Andres Hilarion swinger-club boarding the high Editing Ana Godoy security walls. Production design Lucia Carnicero Producers Lukas Valenta Rinner, Ana Godoy Production companies Nabis Filmgroup, Completion Jeonjou Cinema Project (KR) expected Supported by BKA – Arts Division, Land Salzburg spring 2016 and Jeonjou Cinema Project Contact Nabis Filmgroup Michael-Walz-Gasse 18c 5020 Salzburg – Austria tel +43 664 233 93 96 [email protected] www.nabisfilm.com Lukas Valenta Rinner Filmography (selection): 2015 Parabellum (fiction), 2010 A Letter to Fukuyama (short) 10 Fiction Die Mitte der Welt Centre Of My World Completion expected spring 2016 Directed by Jakob M. Erwa When Phil (17) returns home German / digital / 16:9 / 100 min after the summer, his mother Key cast Louis Hofmann, Sabine Timoteo and his twin sister are no lon- Written by Jakob M. Erwa based on the novel by ger on speaking terms. Phil Andreas Steinhöfel wants to unlock the secret, Cinematography Ngo The Chau but he feels compelled to Editing Carlotta Kittel tread lightly. Surrounded by a Production design Veronika Merlin strong-willed mother and his Producers Viktoria Salcher, Mathias Forberg, withdrawn sister, Phil tries to Boris Schönfelder, Jakob M. Erwa find his place in life while ex- Production companies Prisma Film, Neue Schönhauser Filmproduktion (D), Universum Film (D) periencing his sexual awaken- Supported by Austrian Film Institute, ORF, Vienna Film ing with the quite mysterious Fund, Cine Art, Drehbuchforum Wien and Nicholas.