SPAIN
Spain is a film that plays on the concepts of time, violence, but also loneliness and destiny through many stories of as many people who inevitably end up influencing one another.
Year: 2012
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.
VATERTAG
Vatertag is, all in all, an enjoyable comedy that, despite a few imperfections and sometimes overly predictable plot twists, stands out for its good pace and an enjoyable story.
MY FATHERS, MY MOTHER AND ME
An intimate and personal story and an event of great interest regarding society and, specifically, Austria and one of its most revolutionary post-war artistic movements, are perfectly intertwined in My Fathers, my Mother and Me within a well-calibrated narrative structure and a direct and essential staging.
DIE PORZELLANGASSEN-BUBEN
Die Porzellangassen-Buben looks like an ideal reunion, a meeting of old friends who by a strange twist of fate only became such in their eighties, after a life spent in New York and Palestine. Screened at the event dedicated to producer Eric Pleskow on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth.
POSTAL AUSTRIA
Postal Austria is a little, precious film that is extremely intimate and personal. A heartfelt declaration of love by the director to her Austria. A decidedly unique product in which two personalities like Narcisa Hirsch and Hans Hurch (to whom the film is dedicated) meet (ideally), creating a beautiful harmony. At the Viennale 2023, as part of the retrospective dedicated to Narcisa Hirsch.
PARADISE: FAITH
Paradise: Faith shows us not only religious fanaticism in one of its most extreme forms. No. In Paradise: Faith, in fact, Ulrich Seidl shows us religion lived in a maniacal way that almost seems to forget the value of human beings themselves. Special Jury Prize at the 2012 Venice Film Festival.
PARADISE: LOVE
In Paradise: Love we find all the constants of Ulrich Seidl’s cinema in a deeply intelligent, painful and merciless work. The cynicism and hypocrisy of human beings, the difference between social classes, but also – and above all – a deep loneliness and a desperate need for love are the absolute protagonists. Can there ever be an even faint chance of salvation? The director seems to have no doubt about it.
AMOUR
In Michael Haneke’s Amour (Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival 2012, as well as Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film in 2013), there is no place for deep reflections on what human beings have become today. There is no place for the inner torments of talented pianists, adrift families or white-gloved young delinquents breaking into rich homes. Now is the time to focus on one of the most complex feelings, in its purest form.
MY FATHER’S HOUSE
The first chapter of the Heimatfilm-Trilogie (which also includes Farewell, 2014, and Heimatfilm, 2016), My Father’s House, dedicated to the director’s recently deceased parents, stages – like the author’s other films – an important inner change and can rightfully be classified as his most intimate and personal work.