The Carl Mayer and Thomas Pluch Screenplay Awards were presented at a ceremony in cooperation with the Department of Culture of the City of Graz and drehbuchVERBAND Austria on Friday morning at the Grand Hôtel Wiesler, Salon Frühling.
Razzennest is a true visual and auditory experience. A bizarre, exhilarating and adrenaline-fuelled journey between past and present, or better still, into a present where the past is always ready to return more cruel and ruthless than ever. At the Diagonale’23.
Menuett is a never predictable or banal feature film, which leaves the viewer maximum freedom of interpretation. And in dealing with themes that are always topical, it immediately takes on universal connotations, while at the same time standing out for its singular and extremely elegant mise-en-scène. At the Diagonale’23.
On the occasion of the Diagonale’23 in Graz, the Franz Grabner Award 2023, endowed with EUR 5,000 each, was awarded today in the categories film documentary and TV documentary. The award is sponsored by the Grabner family, the AAFP, the ORF and the Diagonale in memory of ORF journalist Franz Grabner (1955-2015). The prize is awarded for an ethically and morally responsible and credible approach by filmmakers to their medium.
With Mermaids don’t cry, director Franziska Pflaum has realised a kind of delicate and symbolic contemporary fairytale, in which a magnetic protagonist represents a kind of postmodern heroine on her (often difficult) path towards a new self-awareness. At the Diagonale’23.
With 2551.02 – The Orgy of the Damned, Norbert Pfaffenbichler has further confirmed his talent for playing with new ways of understanding mise-en-scène itself, drawing inspiration from the origins of cinema, but at the same time creating something totally new and personal. At the Diagonale’23.
Souls of a River is a long stream of consciousness. The story of two men with two distinct backgrounds who have much more in common than it might initially seem. The story of two individuals, but also, at the same time, the story of the world in which we live, of a capitalist society that constantly makes us search far from home for the longed-for serenity. At the Diagonale’23.
Viktoria Schmid has given us with this little and important NYC RGB one of the many facets of cinema itself. A demonstration of how filmmaking is, in reality, a political act, of how film never grows old, of how with a great willingness to experiment and to tread new paths, it is possible to achieve each time something new. At the Diagonale’23.
Presentation of the Diagonale 2023. The Festival of Austrian Film from March 21 to 26, 2023 in Graz.
The railway line along which the so-called Mariazeller Bahn travelled is the oldest mountain railway line in Austria. This railway line was, around the 1910s, completely electrified, also thanks to the numerous hydroelectric power stations along its route. The documentary Eine Fahrt mit der Mariazeller Bahn gives us the opportunity to get to know this reality up close.