MOTHER’S BABY
In staging Mother’s Baby, Johanna Moder wasn’t afraid to dare, to take everything to the extreme, to the point of giving her work almost the connotations of a thriller. In competition at the Berlinale 2025.
Actor: Julia Franz Richter
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.
PEACOCK
Intelligent, at times hilarious and decidedly merciless, Peacock shows us a world in which every aspect of everyday life is studied and planned down to the smallest detail, leaving no place for spontaneity and true feelings. At the 81st Venice Film Festival, section Settimana Internazionale della Critica.
BOSNIAN POT
Bosnian Pot is a pleasant, witty and extremely topical feature film. The story of a man, of a worthy artist, which could also be the story of thousands of others who, like him, were forced to leave their homeland many, many years ago. At the Diagonale 2024.
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.
RUBIKON
Rubikon is not a film that relies entirely on special effects or particular action scenes. What Leni Lauritsch has made is actually a successful and often adrenaline-fuelled Kammerspiel in which also important moral questions are raised. How are we responsible for the health of our planet? How important is it to think about safeguarding the common good? And, above all, what will happen to our children?
1 VERABREDUNG IM HERBST
In autumn, overripe things fall. And similarly, there seems to be no certainty for the relationships between the protagonists of 1 Verabredung im Herbst. Yet at the same time, Sebastian Brauneis stages the complexity of feelings and interpersonal relationships with an uncommon lightness.
ME AND THE OTHERS
The bizarre situations staged by David Schalko in the series Me and the Others are initially presented as a pure divertissement: we do not know why the protagonist is able to make these wishes, nor do we know who is able to make his dreams come true. Then, slowly, the music changes. At the Berlinale 2021.
FISCHE
Pastel-coloured cinematography and an almost naïve characterisation of the protagonists and their gestures immediately give Fische a light, sensitive, almost carefree atmosphere, as if they were in a sort of dimension suspended in time. And this is the perfect counterpoint to the first lines of dialogue between the two young protagonists. All this because of a conflict that can only be overcome when a much-needed lightness is rediscovered.
THE DIVER INSIDE
The Diver Inside is a film made up of silences, of confidences, of meaningful dialogues. All this is enriched by a real fascination for the art world in all its aspects, through the creation of stop-motion short films – with hands shaping and repositioning figures made of plasticine – as well as through jazz music composition.