Eklipse by Manuel Wetscher has proved to be an exceptionally insightful and mature film. The personal becomes universal. The truth hits us like a punch in the stomach, especially when we are forced to grow up before time. At the 2026 Venice Film Festival, Orizzonti section.
Water, which has always been a highly symbolic element, immediately takes on very specific meanings in Out of Sync. At the Vienna Shorts 2026.
What will become of the young protagonists of Die Ministranten? Wolfram Paulus doesn’t want to give us definitive answers, but despite the dramatic nature of some events, he never fails to maintain a certain objectivity and indulgence towards each of them.
An animation that is apparently simple and essential, with two-dimensional drawings and well-defined lines, has proved to be the right solution in When I woke up Today, I didn’t know what Day it was. I guess It’s Summer to convey to the viewer the feelings experienced by the young protagonist. At the film review CinemAUSTRIA.
The constant search for one’s own identity, first loves, but also a conflictual but beautiful mother-daughter relationship make this interesting If You are afraid You put your Heart into your Mouth and smile a particularly lively and pulsating work. At the Berlinale 2025, Forum section.
In I saw you were dancing, the act of observing plays the leading role. And so, we spectators immediately identify with young Margarita, perfectly at ease in the darkness of the night, just as we are in the darkness of a movie theatre. At the Vienna Shorts 2024.
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.
In The Inheritors a stark and often ruthless realism blends well, from time to time, with disturbing eroticism, making this important work by Walter Bannert also, unfortunately, sadly topical. At the Viennale 2023, as part of the Filmarchiv Austria’s retrospective Keine Angst.
Breaking the Ice is the story of a long and often painful growth path. The self discovery and the importance of interpersonal relationships. A completely personal, extremely intimate and never trivial story, with a strong, well-marked personality. At the Diagonale’23.
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.