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- 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.
- A documentary about the art and love of bread-making.
- An in-depth look at daily life at one of the most famous cultural institutions in the world, The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
- 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.
- 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.
- Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- Like the diary of a journey, "Wild Blue" is a succession of life fragments. Punctuated by female voices, this film gathers children, trees and winds as musical motifs. Variations on these motifs evoke a world wounded by civil or religious horror. A world approached through gestures, silences, gazes and songs. As time goes, these notes for several voices compose a simple poem on listening.
- 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.
- 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".
- 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.
- 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".
- "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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- This documentary highlights day-to-day life in a boarding school named Zuoz. Here, high in the Swiss mountains, the heirs of rich and influential families are locked up and expected to perform. Director Daniella Marxer spent her youth in such an institution. At Zuoz, individuality is neither tolerated nor of interest. There are very few deviations from the rules; the system has to work perfectly. Rebellion is not tolerated, and, if you don't submit, you will immediately be expelled.
- The film is based on a novel by Samuel R. Delany and is about a brief and impossible love affair between a woman tied to the earth and a space traveler especially created for work in outer space. The film looks as if it based on a trick: it consists entirely of negative images. But the effect is more than a simple reversal from positive to negative, details make clear that its precisely arranged.
- The job market is only for those who fit the system, so what about the misfits in our society? Michl's Restaurant hires exactly these misfits and helps them to build confidence, job experience and so much more. We follow waiters, kitchen helps, cooks and other employees in their daily struggle to learn ... inside and outside the job. A touching and tough doc, for everyone who works, or wants to work.
- Immediately at the film's beginning we run up against a boundary stone, a relic of a past age, made of nearly indestructible granite. In the middle of a forest which seems idyllic in the twilight, it marks an otherwise invisible division: Bavaria on one side, the Czech Republic on the other. Johannes Holzhausen's Woman's Day is a documentary miniature that begins at this place. It clearly portrays the fault lines of history in the circumstances of a family and individual lives. A grouchy old man. A woman who was abruptly separated from her lover. A son who disappeared into the underground for ten years. They are the protagonists of an arrangement centered on borders, borders that still have an effect even if they are no longer officially recognized-as immobile as if they were made of granite.
- For years the warships of the Soviet navy have been on sale. The destination of these ships on sale is Alang, a beach near Bombay. The cinematographic voyage shows a part of the last voyage of the cruiser "Admiral Fokin".
- How can one express the potential of someone's art when its creation requires a source of danger in the form of an observer? How can one portray an artist who tolerates no one but herself as creator of self-portraits? These questions provide the foundation of Joerg Burger's unique portrait of photographer Michaela Moscouw. Burger was granted the privilege of engaging the reclusive artist in an intimate conversation, though he was permitted to record it on audio tape only. Moscouw is also a portrait of a person who is present and absent at the same time. Her stream-of-consciousness elucidation of her work lays a trail leading through a wealth of photographs, self-portraits showing Moscouw in a number of different poses, costumes and transformations, both at home and in public places. The camera moves smoothly as it scans the images while Moscouw's rapid-fire comments describe the conditions under which they were created. At the same time, it uncovers an existential trail, revealing it to be both a game with voyeurism and provocation and an epistemological project. Burger does not impose a specific interpretation; he deals with sound and image as two discrete elements. Though they approach each other, they remain separate. The conversation is 'recreated' in hectic surroundings, hands leaf through a photo album in front of automatic doors. And Moscouw's outdoor activities, which Burger illustrates with images of nearly deserted forests and meadows and a subway ride on the edge of Vienna, bear witness to the disappearance of a subject, a process which in the end is also manifested in photographs showing nothing more than black&white silhouettes. (Dominik Kamalzadeh)
- This film follows retired Russian aircraft carrier, relic of the Cold War, on its last journey.
- The film tells the story of 78-year old writer Fritz Habeck. The two esssential themes of his cinematic interpretation of the artist's destiny are the lack of direction in a person who is creative, but trapped within himself, and the psychology of individual failure.
- 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.
- Promenade to Syracuse is a film essay about a walking-tour in the footsteps of Johann Gottfried Seume's travel account from 1802. Originating from many months of walking - from the Swiss border down to Sicily, taking along a camera, a book and memory - Promenade to Syracuse grew to a film about the general and specific aspects of travels in which one hopes to encounter the unexpected. (Constantin Wulff)
- A region south of Vienna. A walk through history: the Turkish wars, the witch burnings, the persecution of the Jews, the Second World War. The historical witnesses: cemetaries, industrial ruins, the "monuments" of the postwar restoration.
- Documentary shows how the sick and the dying are treated in a hospice.