DIAGONALE’25 – SCREENPLAY AWARDS
The Diagonale is pleased to announce the winners of the Carl Mayer Screenplay Awards and the Thomas Pluch Screenplay Awards, which were presented today as part of the Festival of Austrian Film. Source: press release.
Month: March 2025
HAPPY
In Happy, Sandeep Kumar’s camera constantly follows its protagonist, reminding us of great neorealist cinema. At the Diagonale 2025.
SOLVENT
In Solvent Johannes Grenzfurthner wasn’t afraid to dare, to show us reality through a courageous and innovative mise-en-scène, in which wide-angle shots further convey a strong sense of unease, together with splatter scenes, psychedelic lights and an increasingly frenetic editing. At the Diagonale 2025.
ALARM
In Alarm, Judith Zdesar has avoided any kind of rhetoric, focusing instead on the individual emotions, dreams and traumas of each of the protagonists, immediately revealing an extraordinary maturity in her approach to a complex topic. At the Diagonale 2025.
THIS ARROW POINTS
This Arrow Points is an essential work in Austrian and world film history. A film that further explores the complex world of the seventh art. Could it be, perhaps, only the first chapter in a series of reflections on the concepts of image and meaning? At the Diagonale 2025.
FRANZ GRABNER AWARD 2025 – THE WINNERS
The Diagonale is pleased to announce the winners of the Franz Grabner Award 2025, who were selected today during an award ceremony at the Diagonale Forum in the Heimatsaal of the Volkskundemuseum.
UN GRAN CASINO
Un gran Casino is a complex and magnetically fascinating feature film that once again confirms Daniel Hoesl’s talent for telling in a completely innovative way what our society has become. At the Diagonale 2025.
GENERATIONS OF IMAGES
Generations of Images aims first and foremost to provide us with interesting food for thought regarding historical moments that have been of crucial importance in the recent history of Albania, leaving us free to interpret them, thanks also to the numerous testimonies of those who experienced these moments first-hand. At the Diagonale 2025.
WORLD AT STAKE
World at Stake is a short film that, through the employment of a new, innovative cinematic language, never becomes banal in urging us to act, to take control of our lives, and not to allow pre-established rules to influence our existence, our future. At the Diagonale 2025.
DIAGONALE 2025
Presentation of the Diagonale 2025. The Festival of Austrian Film in Graz from March 27 to April 1, 2025.