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- In this immersive film essay, master documentary filmmaker Thomas Heise dives into four generations of his own family archives to trace the profound cultural and political upheaval of Germany's last century.
- A documentary about the art and love of bread-making.
- Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s.
- David Sieveking walks on David Lynchs path into the world of transcendental meditation (TM). He comes across the founder of this worldwide movement, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, to whom the Beatles already pilgrimed.
- In Comparison revisits issues explored in the director's 2007 two channel installation Comparison Via a Third. Spanning continents and cultures, the film focuses on the brick in its many contexts, from the collective efforts of a community building a clinic in Burkina Faso, through semi industrialized moldings in India, to industrial production lines in Germany, France, Austria and Switzerland. Through its notable structure and its captivating rhythms, In Comparison presents various methods of labor production, allowing for an assessment that changes with every layer and goes well beyond a simple binary divide.
- An in-depth look at daily life at one of the most famous cultural institutions in the world, The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
- The film follows five senior athletes along their biggest challenge - maturity. As all of them are between 80 and 100 years old it is a race against time and personal degeneration. Nevertheless they are united in one common goal - to take part in the track and field World Masters Championships. Life will end soon - so what?
- Over the course of four years, the artist let us follow him with a camera and gave us an insight into his world, his work, his art. We are present when he develops a new artwork and puts it together. And we stay put when the pressure of being an artist is mounting and he looses his cool. During quiet moments in conversation, he recounts stories about his family and how experiences in his childhood have influenced his work as an artist. And he is frank about the global art "business" that he sometimes views as a "hyena".
- It is one thing to survive the Holocaust, but quite another to deal with the lasting impact of this experience. This film portrait of Ruth Klüger, an American literary scholar from Vienna, deals with these issues by revisiting four significant places in her life: Vienna, California, Göttingen and Israel. Ruth Klüger also shares her thoughts on very personal topics: her childhood in anti-Jewish Vienna, her life in the States, her motherhood of two American sons and the culture of commemoration.
- How do we explain to our children, that we all have to die one day? Actually, do we really have to? In "Eternity at Last" French writer and enfant terrible Frédéric Beigbeder explores if we have to accept birth, sickness and death as the natural course of our lifes. He takes us on a journey to our future selves and meets with so called transhumanists. They are cyborgs, scientists, philosophers and entrepreneurs who already took our evolution into their hands. While fighting against his own insignificance, Beigbeder asks for the meaning of transhumanism and thus for nothing less than the meaning of life.
- For Mr.Weintraub, an elderly Jew from New York, all Arabs are terrorists, and for Hayat, a young Palestinian woman, all Jews are thieves and murderers. Mrs. Weintraub, a Holocaust survivor, never again wants to set foot on German soil. The story unfolds when the Weintraubs, on their way to Israel, stop in Switzerland. While eating rich German pastry, Mr. Weintraub collapses, and is rushed to a hospital where Hayat, the nurse, has to take care of him.
- Captures the aesthetic appeal of Vienna's Natural History Museum and its working process, illuminating the mammoth project of knowledge preservation and production hidden behind the building's imperial façade.
- The Romanian princess in exile tours the country on a royal train attempting to gather the enthusiasm of the crowds and to restore the monarchy to this former socialist republic.
- August 8, 2013 marks the 50th anniversary of the greatest railway robbery of all time. This coup became a myth not only because of the enormous booty - around 50 million euros today.
- This film follows retired Russian aircraft carrier, relic of the Cold War, on its last journey.
- Handmade utopias - a filmic search for the worldwide phenomenon of the micronation movement. Do-it-yourself states that have distanced themselves from the economic and political mainstreaming of globalization. A road movie covering land, water and the wildest realms of the imagination. Simultaneously creative documentary and pulsating cultural portrait, the film traces a new "unplugged" generation - their motives, their anxieties and their dreams. A film that shows how this generation realizes its escapist fantasies in new economic and political forms and how they collide with oppressive everyday realities.
- A portrait of sculptor Mathias Hietz of Lower Austria, originator and head of the international sculptors symposium in Lindabrunn. A look back at his beginnings in the fifties, then on to his current work.
- The film Günther 1939 (Heil Hitler) consists of "found footage" derived from an amateur film from 1939. The re-working of the material by Johannes Rosenberger is a protest: sheer indignation, and unsubtle, with good reason.
- "I am from nowhere" is what Andy Warhol used to say when asked about his origin. "Nowhere" is the tiny village Mikov in Slovakia which Warhol's mother left for the United States in 1921. Looking for Andy Warhol's roots countless camera crews from all over the world began coming to Mikov. This documentary is looking for the effects of this invasion.
- Unique institution at a key moment - the preparations for their 100 year anniversary. The various insights of the AK team and how the tasks of the Chambers of Labor have changed over time due to digitalization and globalization.
- This moving portrait of a maternity clinic in Vienna grants an intriguing insight into the drama, the pain and beauty of coming into the world. In its entire complexity and variety the everyday miracle of giving birth as well as the cycle of its accompanying routine procedures within the clinic are demonstrated with the stylistic means of Direct Cinema. Into the World is a chronicle of the beginning of life and the organizational apparatus that we are born into.
- The film portrait Ulrich Seidl - A Director at Work depicts the controversial Austrian filmmaker Ulrich Seidl at work for the first time, painting a vivid picture of the much-debated "Seidl method".