SUMMER HOLIDAY (VAGINALE VII)
The free singing in Summer Holiday (Vaginale VII) becomes almost a way to shake off a decidedly ill-fitting dress, to overcome the feeling of being trapped both physically and mentally. At the Vienna Shorts 2025.
Film director: Kurdwin Ayub
FAMILY HOLIDAY
In Family Holiday by Kurdwin Ayub, short scenes perfectly capture the emotions and feelings experienced during a long holiday, when you finally return to your homeland, but also when boredom takes centre stage. At the Vienna Shorts 2025.
MOND
With Mond, Kurdwin Ayub has staged a lively and pulsating feature film, a complex and layered all-female story, much more cruel and topical than it may initially seem. At the Viennale 2024.
WUNDERLAND
Wunderland is both a bitter and tender tale. A little, sincere film that with disarming realism shows us the first, important encounter with the world around us and its difficulties. Dreams are the mirror of our fears. But, perhaps, the love of parents can make us forget everything, even if only for a moment.
INTERVIEW WITH KURDWIN AYUB
On the occasion of the Diagonale 2022, director Kurdwin Ayub presented her feature film Sonne, the festival’s opening film, which had already been screened at the Berlinale 2022, where it won the GWFF-Preis for Best Debut Film. Cinema Austriaco had the opportunity to have a chat with her and learn more about her work and career.
PARADISE! PARADISE!
In Paradise! Paradise! two cultures are compared through their colours, their sounds, their city streets. Different languages immediately become a universal language, immediately become cinema. At the Diagonale’22.
BOOMERANG
In Boomerang we find all the constants of Kurdwin Ayub’s filmography. Here too we notice a conscious and extremely mature approach to a young story about young people. A light and deep story at the same time. An extremely personal story that through the director’s innovative gaze immediately takes on universal connotations. At the Diagonale’22.
SONNE
Kurdwin Ayub is not afraid to dare and experiment with new film languages. This, after all, is what she has always done in her previous works as well. In Sonne, therefore, the director also finally feels free to develop and explore themes close to her heart from the perspective of teenagers who live in a big European city, but who come from all over the world. What, then, does homeland mean?
LOLOLOL
A strong sense of nihilism and coldness emerges from LOLOLOL. All this results in a short film that ranks as an excellent example of cinema of reality with a mise en scène of an underground film from the 1990s.