COMA
In Coma, violence, suffering, guilt, but also unconditional love and self-sacrifice are the main emotions that play the leading roles in a complex and visually captivating work.
Actor: Claudia Martini
COMING OF AGE
Fresh and light as a spring breeze, yet also deeply dramatic and moving, Coming of Age is a hymn to love and freedom. A love story between two young souls who must come to terms with the inevitable passing of time.
THE DEVIL’S BATH
While watching The Devil’s Bath, we immediately get the impression that something terrible is about to happen. Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala have made a sophisticated and disturbing feature film that is extremely topical and rich in strong symbolism. In competition at the Berlinale 2024.
WICKED GAMES RIMINI SPARTA
Wicked Games Rimini Sparta, through the story of three people, immediately becomes a picture of the era in which we live, of a sick world in which everyone seems to be hopelessly alone, destined never to find the longed-for serenity. At the Diagonale’23.
RIMINI
With Rimini, Ulrich Seidl once again gives us a merciless portrait of the world in which we live, in which no one is given a chance to save themselves, in which there is no hope for a better future, in which old songs from World War II still echo through the corridors of a shabby retirement home and act as a sad leitmotif in our lives.
71 FRAGMENTS OF A CHRONOLOGY OF CHANCE
It is based on a real-life news story 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance. In the film – which is divided into five chapters, each concerning a particular day – everything takes place from October 12 to December 23, 1993. Everything leads up to a single event in which all the characters will be involved in one way or another. But how important is the human being in this feature film by Michael Haneke?
HAGAZUSSA: A HEATHEN’S CURSE
Divided into four chapters – Shadows, Horn, Blood and Fire – Hagazussa: A Heathen’s Curse presents a true crescendo within itself, for a series of visual suggestions, to which the constant musical score – by the group MMMD – undoubtedly adds great value.
VERGISS SNEIDER!
Everything is floating in a timeless dimension in Vergiss Sneider!, Götz Spielmann’s medium-length graduation film. And next to a dark humour in the background, next to a subtle as well as vibrant eroticism, next to characters whose obsessions are taken to the extreme, we see a theatrical mise-en-scène that clearly refers to the Theatre of the Absurd, without forgetting Roman Polanski himself or even the science fiction films of the glorious Hollywood of the 1950s and 1960s.
YOU BET YOUR LIFE
A film, You bet your Life, which focuses entirely on the inner self of its protagonist and which, consequently, boasts a highly appropriate direction, with frequent use of shoulder-mounted cameras and frenetic editing to show us his anxieties.
DOG DAYS
Absent from the 76th Venice Film Festival, Ulrich Seidl couldn’t present Wicked Games, his newest work. Yet, the controversial Austrian director is now at home at the Lido. Suffice it to say that his international notoriety was officially achieved in 2001, when he presented in competition Dog Days, which won the Grand Jury Prize.