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/2019/ Austrian Films Coming Soon /2019/ Austrian Films Coming Soon Austrian Films 2019 – 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 Appendix: Christa Casanova-Calvi, Brigitte Weich Graphic design: Perndl+Co Cover Foto: Perndl+Co Printed by: Druckerei Walla, Vienna Austrian Films Coming Soon 2019 Fiction Films 5 Documentary Films 21 Appendix 59 Directors, Producers 60 Industry Guide 61 3 Fiction Films Fiction Der Boden unter den Füßen The Ground Beneath My Feet Directed by Marie Kreutzer Lola, a young company consul- German / 35 mm / 1:2.35 / 108 min tant, 100 working hours and Key cast Valerie Pachner, Pia Hierzegger, 5 sports units per week. Conny, Mavie Hörbiger, Michelle Barthel her older sister, paranoid Written by Marie Kreutzer schizophrenic and unable Cinematography Leena Koppe to leave the apartment. Editing Ulrike Kofler Conny swallows 120 sleeping Production design Martin Reiter pills and is saved. And Lola Producers Alexander Glehr, Franz Novotny hasn’t ever told that she even Production company Novotny & Novotny Filmproduktion has a sister. Supported by Austrian Film Institute, FISA, ORF, Vienna Film Fund Contact Picture Tree International Husemannstraße 7 10435 Berlin – Germany tel +49 30 420 824 80 [email protected] www.picturetree-international.com Completed Marie Kreutzer Filmography (selection): 2016 Was hat uns bloß so ruiniert (fiction), 2015 Gruber geht (fiction), 2011 Die Vaterlosen (fiction), 2006 White Box (short) 6 Fiction Der Taucher The Diver Completion expected spring 2019 Directed by Günter Schwaiger Four people, four perspectives German / digital / 2:2.35 / 93 min of an experience of violence Key cast Franziska Weisz, Julia Franz Richter, and four ways to deal with it. Alex Brendemühl, Dominik Marcus Singer In the midst of the apparent Written by Günter Schwaiger idyll of a Mediterranean island, Cinematography David Azcano The Diver tells the story of Editing Günter Schwaiger, Martin Eller trauma from the different Production design Artchi – Christina Guisado perspectives of those involved. Producers Günter Schwaiger, Lukas Stepanik A psycho-thriller about reper- Production companies GSF – Günter Schwaiger Film Produktion, cussions, represssion and Extrafilm coming to terms with family Supported by Austrian Film Institute, ORF, Land Salzburg, Stadt Salzburg violence, but also about the Contact GSF – Günter Schwaiger Film Produktion longing for love and the indomi- Mollardgasse 85a/1/12 table power of rebellion. 1060 Vienna – Austria [email protected] www.mosolov-p.com Günter Schwaiger Filmography (selection): 2015 Seit die Welt Welt ist (doc.), 2013 Martas Koffer (doc.), 2011 IBIZA Occident (doc.), 2009 Arena (doc.) 7 Fiction Die Kinder der Toten The Children of the Dead Completed Directed by Kelly Copper, Pavol Liska A Super-8 silent film, that German / digital / 4:3 / 90 min slowly transforms into a spooky Key cast Andrea Maier, Greta Kostka, Klaus story of a nature idyll going Unterrieder, Tamara Pregernigg off the tracks and involving the Written by Kelly Copper, Pavol Liska based on the resurrection of “undead” pro- novel from Elfriede Jelinek tagonists. A secretary suddenly Cinematography Kelly Copper, Pavol Liska finds herself confronted with Editing Kelly Copper, Michael Palm an evil doppelgänger and drives Producers Ulrich Seidl, Claus Philipp, Georg Aschauer her übermother crazy. An em- Production companies Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion, in cooperation with Steirischer Herbst bittered woodsman is pursued Supported by Austrian Film Institute, ORF, by his sons, who committed Land Steiermark, Cine Art suicide years ago. The widow Contact Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion of an old Nazi film collec- Wasserburgergasse 5/7 tor organizes an underground 1090 Vienna – Austria CINEMA 666 in an abandoned tel +43 1 310 28 24 factory, where the past can be [email protected] www.ulrichseidl.com mourned without inhibition. Kelly Copper, Pavol Liska Filmography (selection of joint works): 2019 Die Kinder der Toten (fiction) 8 Fiction Glück gehabt Artur Directed by Peter Payer Artur is released from the German / digital /1:2.39 / 100 min sheltered workshop that his Key cast Philipp Hochmair, Julia Roy, Larissa marriage has become. A new Fuchs, Robert Stadlober, Barbara Petritsch woman enters his life. His Written by Peter Payer relationship is subjected to a Cinematography Andreas Berger stress test. A tribute to love in Editing Cordula Werner the form of a black comedy. Production design Conrad Moritz Reinhardt, Anna Seidl Producers Vikoria Salcher, Mathias Forberg Production company Prisma Film Supported by Austrian Film Institute, FISA, ORF, Vienna Film Fund Contact Prisma Film Rathausstraße 3/18 1010 Vienna – Austria tel +43 1 406 37 70 [email protected] www.prismafilm.at Completion expected fall 2019 Peter Payer Filmography (selection): 2011 Am Ende des Tages (fiction), 2007 Freigesprochen (fiction), 2004 Villa Henriette (fiction), 2002 Ravioli (fiction) 9 Fiction Kaviar Directed by Elena Tikhonova 1st film Nadja knows the oligarch Igor German / digital / 1:2.35 / 90 min inside out. As his interpreter Key cast Margarita Breitkreiz, Daria Nosik, Sabrina she has seen more of him than Reiter, Georg Friedrich, Simon Schwarz both of them care to admit. But Written by Robert Buchschwenter, Elena Tikhonova his latest project is a lot more Cinematography Dominik Spritzendorfer public: a lavish villa, which he Editing Daniel Prochaska, Alarich Lenz, has decided to build right on Dominik Spritzendorfer top of a bridge in the heart of Production design Hannes Salat, Julia Oberdorfinger Vienna: if the Medici can do Producers Ursula Wolschlager, Franz Novotny, Alexander Glehr, Kurt Mrkwicka, it, why not me? But Nadja, her Andreas Kamm, Oliver Auspitz best friend Vera and her nanny Production companies Witcraft Filmproduktion, Novotny & Teresa have a sabotage plan. Novotny Filmproduktion, MR Film Supported by Austrian Film Institute, FISA, ORF, Vienna Film Fund, Land Niederösterreich and Media/Creative Europe Contact Witcraft Filmproduktion Lindengasse 25/10 1070 Vienna – Austria tel +43 699 177 881 77 Completed [email protected] www.witcraft.at Elena Tikhonova Filmography (selection): 2013 Elektro Moskva (doc., co-dir.), 2012 Made in Austria (short), 2006 Metropolis_reloaded (short) 10 Fiction Lillian Completion expected spring 2019 Directed by Andreas Horvath Stranded in New York as a porn English, German / digital / 1:2.39 / 130 min actress, Lillian decides to re- Key cast Patrycja Planik turn to her homeland, Russia, Written by Andreas Horvath on foot. She resolutely sets Cinematography Andreas Horvath, Sonja Aufderklamm out on the long journey. A road Editing Michael Palm movie that goes straight across Producer Ulrich Seidl the USA into the cold of Alaska. Production company Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion The chronicle of a slow dis- Supported by Austrian Film Institute, FISA, ORF, appearance. Vienna Film Fund Contact Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion Wasserburgergasse 5/7 1090 Vienna – Austria tel +43 1 310 28 24 [email protected] www.ulrichseidl.com Andreas Horvath Filmography (selection): 2015 Helmut Berger, Actor (doc.), 2013 Earth’s Golden Playground (doc.), 2010 Arab Attraction (doc.), 2004 This Ain’t No Heartland (doc.) 11 Fiction Little Joe Completion expected spring 2019 Directed by Jessica Hausner Little Joe is a film about doubt- German / digital / 1:1.85 / 100 min ing reality and identity: a Key cast Emily Beecham, Ben Whishaw, Kerry Fox mother is afraid of losing her Written by Jessica Hausner, Géraldine Bajard son, but loses herself instead. Cinematography Martin Gschlacht A plant created by genetic en- Editing Karina Ressler gineering appears to produce Production design Katharina Wöppermann, Tanja Hausner, curious changes in people or Heiko Schmidt animals who come into contact Producers Bruno Wagner, Jessica Hausner, Martin with it. Those affected seem Gschlacht, Bertrand Faivre, Philippe Bober alien, as if their personalities Production companies coop99 filmproduktion, Little Jo Productions (UK), The Bureau (UK), have been altered – especially Essential Filmproduktion (D) to their nearest and dearest. Supported by Austrian Film Institute, FISA, ORF, Vienna Or is that just a figment of the Film Fund and British Film Institute, MBB, imagination? The interplay Eurimages, BBC between various truths is ex- Contact Coproduction Office amined, and ultimately the very 24 rue Lamartine concept of individual identity is 75009 Paris – France tel +33 1 56 02 60 00 questioned. [email protected] www.coproductionoffice.eu Jessica Hausner Filmography (selection): 2014 Amour Fou (fiction), 2009 Lourdes (fiction), 2004 Hotel (fiction), 2001 Lovely Rita (fiction) 12 Fiction Love Machine Directed by Andreas Schmied Georgy, singer in a two-man- German / digital / 1:2.35 / 96 min band, loses his partner and Key cast Thomas Stipsits, Claudia Kottal, friend. Broke and with nowhere Julia Edtmeier, Barbara Schöneberger to live, Georgy then discovers Written by Silvia Wohlmuth a profitable market niche. He Cinematography Anna Hawliczek decides to offer himself and his Editing Olivia Retzer body up to the ladies in return Production design Katharina Haring, Nina Salak for payment. Things are going Producer Helmut Grasser just fine in his new line of work Production company Allegro Film until