The Blood Countess takes us by the hand on a journey where anything can happen. And through decidedly surreal characters, witty and hilarious dialogue, and “bloody” and wonderfully disturbing moments, it also pays sincere homage to Vienna. At the Berlinale 2026, Berlinale Special Gala section.
Aufputzt is’ is a film made even richer and more layered by an excellent cast and twists that immediately bring to mind another great Christmas cult classic in Austrian film history: Single Bells.
Sleeping with a Tiger by Anja Salomonowitz is a complex and layered. extremely rich and sophisticated feature film. A feature film that is never afraid to exaggerate. Just as our beloved Maria Lassnig did in her time. At the Berlinale 2024, Forum section.
Farewell is the search for an escape from reality and the landing in a ‘non-promised’ land full of happiness. A critique of the system that is at times verbose and exasperating, but which well depicts the Zeitgeist of the time. At the Viennale 2023, within the retrospective Keine Angst by the Filmarchiv Austria.
Copy Shop is present and future. The loss of identity and subjectivity due to modern media. Copy Shop is the loss of all certainty, in a world where we no longer know what is true and what is not.
Man kann nicht alles haben is an entertaining, but often too predictable comedy of errors. Michael Kreihsl, for his part, just as planned in the ORF series, has made the beautiful city of Graz a further protagonist, spectator of many intrigues, but also of tender love stories.
Anything is possible in Charms Incidents. The series of events seems to follow no logic and what results are numerous highly Kafkaesque paradoxical situations.
Surreal, bizarre, but also tender and rather naïve, Drei Herren is certainly not a perfect feature film. And yet, as we get closer to the finale, each character turns out to be much more complex and multifaceted than it might initially seem.
No one is really innocent in Life eternal. And even if past faults come to the surface, we gradually discover that those whom we initially considered to be completely negative, also have a tender and friendly nature after all.