Tribute to Gustav Deutsch at Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival 2019
Focussing on two main topics in his cinematographic work, the film archive and the home movie, the extended retrospective at this year´s Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival will include both his famous archival found footage Trilogy “FILM IST” as well as Gustav´s latest film HOW WE LIVE – MESSAGES TO THE FAMILY which entirely consists of so called home movie material from the last century to today´s mobile-phone clips of a journey he did. Program details and line-up
THE IMPOSSIBLE IMAGE and IMPERIAL VALLEY awarded with the "Prize of the German Filmcritics"
Congratulations !!!
Lukas Marxt has been awarded with the Prize of the German Filmcritics for his festival-hit Imperial Valley in the category Experimental Film while Sandra Wollner’s wonderful debutfilm The Impossible Image received the award for Best Fiction and Best Editing (Stephan Bechinger)
List of Winners 2018
Berlinale Shorts will show a new film by Rainer Kohlberger
“… and it happened again” !
Once again Berlinale Shorts selected an experimental shortfilm by Rainer Kohlberger into their program. The latest piece by the versatile media artist it has to be lived once and dreamed twice is running for a Golden Bear in the shortfilm competition.
4. Staffel: "Vorstadtkino Währing" im Café Schmid Hansl ab 21.1.2019
Die nächste Runde des sympathischen Vorstadtkino Währings steht bevor: Ab 21.1. steht wieder wöchentlich am Montag ein österreichischer Film mit ausgesuchten Vorfilmen aus dem Bestand von sixpackfilm am Programm. Jeweils ab 20h (Einlass 19h) in der gepflegten Wirtshaus-Athmosphäre des Café Schmid Hansl in der Schulgasse 18, 1180 Wien. Details gibt es hier
CAVALCADE by Johann Lurf and THE TREE by Henry Hills at the Rotterdam Film Festival 2019
After last year’s huge festival success of his feature Johann Lurf already presents another short – “Cavalcade” – which will celebrate his world premiere at the upcoming Rotterdam Film Festival (jan 23 – feb 3, 2019). Same does Vienna based US-artist Henry Hills with his wonderful structural short “The Tree”.
IFFR 2019 line-up
The new generation of female directors from Austria at Max Ophuehl Award 2019
This year’s selection at Germany’s most important film festival for newcomers MAX OPHUELS AWARD mirrors the outstanding quality of young Austrian (female!) filmmaking: from january 14th some of these are celebrating their international premieres there:
RED EARTH WHITE SNOW by Christine Moderbacher in the Dokumentary Competition, within the Shortfilm Competition In Heaven´s Meadow by Magdalena Chmielewska, Snowman by Leni Gruber and Boomerang by Kurdwin Ayub, as well as Josephine Ahnelt´s Winter Bees in the New Horizons Section
ANIMISTICA by Nikki Schuster in SUNDANCE 2019
We are very pleased ! Again a film from our distibution program has been invited to US-american Sundance Film Festival in Park City: The eery-beauteous animation animistica by Stop-Motion artist Nikki Schuster will play in the Animated Shorts. Congratulations Nikki!
line-up sundance-shorts 2019
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"BEYOND CINEMA. Austrian Underground Film from the 1960s"
Titled BEYOND CINEMA. Austrian Underground Film from the 1960s Alternative Film & Videofestival Belgrade will present between 12.-16.Dezember 2018 a filmprogram curated by Gerald Weber along the festival focus on COLLECTIVism.
Including works by VALIE EXPORT, Kurt Kren, Hans Scheugl, Peter Weibel, Ernst Schmidt jr a.o.
Program details & schedule
Sabine Marte mit der "Gloriette" ausgezeichnet
Wir gratulieren Sabine Marte zur Gloriette, erstmals vergeben von FC GLORIA – Frauen Vernetzung Film für herausragende Leistungen von Frauen in der Filmbranche. Gestiftet von Verband Filmregie Österreich • VdFS – Verwertungsgesellschaft der Filmschaffenden und The Grand Post
Zu den weiteren Preisträgerinnen und zum Jurystatement
Foto: Elsa Okazaki
