A DAY FOR A MIRACLE
A Day for a Miracle has the appeal of an adrenaline-fuelled thriller, but it is also an important human drama in which no one is truly innocent, and only courage and perseverance can truly save lives.
Actor: Gerti Drassl
THE PIANO TEACHER
The Piano Teacher is a sometimes cruel, painful and disturbing film, which, in depicting the drama of a woman with whom none of us (almost never) feel empathy, shows above all a great understanding of the human soul. At the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.
GINA
In Gina, each individual shot makes us progressively empathise with the young protagonist, an innocent victim, but also a strong and determined child, who is not afraid to take control of her life in order to be finally happy. At the Diagonale 2025.
WELCOME HOME BABY
With Welcome Home Baby, Andreas Prochaska has made a feature film that is much more complex, layered and symbolic than it may initially appear, unafraid to dare and to experiment. At the Berlinale 2025, Panorama section.
PERSONA NON GRATA
Inner conflicts, guilt, shame, fear opposed to the joy of liberation: in Persona non grata by Antonin Svoboda there is all this and much more.
WOODLAND
In Woodland, the romanticism of the Waldeinsamkeit has the resigned eyes of Gerti, the habitual proxemics of Franz and the inner chaos of Marian, the only one who seems to be able to draw something positive from the encounter of two worlds, both old and new.
MERMAIDS DON’T CRY
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.
THE TOBACCONIST
The Tobacconist is undoubtedly an interesting feature film, but it gets lost in the many paths it decides to take. And not even the presence of Bruno Ganz or a cameo by the great Erni Mangold can do much.
THE WHORE’S SON
The Whore’s Son is the story of a desperate mother-son relationship. A continuous chasing after each other without ever actually meeting. A love-hate relationship that can often lead to the most extreme solutions.
MOONBOUND
Moonbound is all in all an enjoyable, colourful and, at times, adrenaline-fuelled feature film for families. A film with an international scope that, however, both in terms of the script and the realisation of the CGI pictures, suffers greatly from the comparison with other animated films made in the meantime all over the world. At the Diagonale’22.