"A ★ over Spain"
After a sensational first festival year, Johann Lurf´s extraordinary compilation film ★ is recently touring spanish festivals and cinematheques – often accompanied by a selection of Lurf´s experimental shorts. After Gijón Festival the program makes stop at the Filmoteca de Galicia in A Coruña, at Filmoteca de València, during the Muestra de Cine on Lanzarote and last not least earyl next year at Cineteca de Madrid.

KURT KREN retrospectives in Italy and Czech Republic
Titled “Sorry, it had to be done”, Milano´s Filmmaker Festival presents a complete retrospective of Kurt Kren´s Ouevre from november 17th in the recently restaured digital version while PAF – Festival of Film Animation and Contemporary Art in Olomouc will show the fims from their original 16mm copies. Two fantastic occasions to see and experience the beauty of Kren´s specific shooting and editing techniques and his unique aesthetics.

Retrospective Björn Kämmerer in Moscow
Organized by Moscow Experimental Film Festival Mediaartist Björn Kämmerer shows his films on December 6th at Moscow´s NIKFI (Cine-Photo Research and Development Institute)
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sixpackfilm @ VIENNALE 2018
We are very happy to announce the Austrian premiere of the following films at upcoming Viennale 2018:
Nils Olger – AN IRON BOX
Christiana Perschon – SHE IS THE OTHER GAZE
Norbert Pfaffenbichler – Invest in Failure
Nikki Schuster – animistica
Josef Dabernig – Gertrud & Tiederich
Lotte Schreiber – Sabaudia
Friedl vom Gröller – Paris Episodes
Albert Sackl – stiffness 1-3 / 7
Siegfried A. Fruhauf – Water and Clearing
Virgil Widrich – Light Matter
Gudrun Krebitz – The Magical Dimension
Alle Details zu den Spielzeiten entnehmen Sie bitte der VIENNALE 2018-Seite
exact screenings dates best to find at VIENNALE 2018-site

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL COUTRY IN THE WORLD by Zelimir Zilnik celebrates it's WORLD PREMIERE at DocLisboa !
Zelimir Zilnik, major protagonist of yugoslavian “Black Wave”, has shot his last movie in Austria. THE MOST BEAUTIFUL COUTRY IN THE WORLD will celebrate it’s WORLD PREMIERE at DocLisboa and then travel right on to various international film festivals. Early december it will be shown at the Austrian Filmmuseum (details coming)

Das "Vorstadtkino Währing" im Café Schmid Hansl geht in seine dritte Saison
Im schönen Flair des sanft renovierten und neu übernommenen Café Schmid Hansl geht das Vorstadtkino Währing in seine dritte Staffel. Ab 15. Oktober gibt an fünf aufeinanderfolgenden Montagen jeweils ab 19h österreichisches Kino samt Kurzfilmen aus dem sixpackfilm-Verleih im feinen Gasthaus-Ambiente. Das genau Programm und Details zur Location finden Sie hier

Ruth Beckermann: retrospective at DOK-Leipzig
DOK-Leipzig (oct 29 – nov 4, 2018) dignifies the Austrian film director Ruth Beckermann with a retrospective of selected films. Ruth will be member of the award-jury and has contributed this year’s festival-trailer.

PHYSIS - A sixpackfilm program to the festival´s topic "It's a fight" at B16 Shortfilmfestival in Brno
As member of their international jury Gerald Weber has been invited to curate a program to this year´s festival focus IT’s A FIGHT at the 59th edition of Brno-Shortfilmfestivals B16. Program title: PHYSIS

FIRST STEPS AWARD to Magdalena Chmielewska for IN HEAVEN´s MEADOW
Congratulationen to Magdalena Chmielewska and her team for the First Steps Award 2018 in the category medium length fiction!

Rainer Kohlberger @ Anthology Film Archives in New York
Berlin based Austrian media artist Rainer Kohlberger is guest of Anthology Film Archives´ Show & Tell-series on october 24th.
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