In Gebirtig, through a strong script and careful staging with attention to every detail, the drama of the three protagonists is perfectly portrayed on the movie screen. And sometimes, what we see can really hit us like a punch in the stomach. Presented by Filmarchiv Austria on the Filmarchiv On channel on the occasion of the Holocaust Remembrance Day.
A Grandfather for Christmas is in every way a classic Christmas film in which hope and good feelings play the leading roles. In this sense, a mise-en-scene reminiscent not only of 1950s comedies, but also of the glorious films by John Hughes proved to be the winning solution.
In Realtime, practically nothing else is needed for Cinema to show up on the movie screen in all its communicative power. In little more than four minutes, the magic happens. The viewer is hypnotised.
Always enthusiastic about experimenting with new film languages through techniques that have already been used over and over again, Stefan Stratil has never been afraid to dare, to try new roads and new paths. And in I’m a Star! the director has been able to fully render the essence of the great Frank Sinatra’s love and existential torments.
Heldenplatz, 19. Februar 2000 is an extremely direct and essential documentary, which mainly aims to make the audience think about the new government and what it might cause in Austria (and beyond). As part of the retrospective Österreich real of the Filmarchiv Austria.
Poppitz is hilarious, irreverent, not afraid to highlight the habits and faults of the upper middle class and, in recounting poor Gerry’s misadventures, draws a comprehensive fresco of contemporary society. A superficial society that only cares about ‘appearances’ and considers luxury as the solution to any problem.
In Blue Moon, we witness, with the structure of a road movie, a tender love story with thriller overtones, in which two cultures and two distinct worlds – East and West – meet, and which gradually discover that they have much more in common than it might initially seem.
According to the author’s words, it is a sort of Odyssey with no return, Egyptian Eclipse. A journey, above all an inner one, that slowly leads to the abandonment of everything related to the past – and, with it, also of the attachment to any material good – and that culminates in the middle of a symbolic desert.