Austria — Countries — Talking Shorts

Saving Some Random Insignificant Stories

Saving Stories and Savouring Paradoxes

Interview with Anna Vasof by Savina Petkova

Now nominated for the New Critics & New Audiences Award 2024, Greek-Austrian filmmaker Anna Vasof elaborates on the family tragedy at the heart of her film.

Films On The Circuit

Land der Berge

At Any Cost: An East European Immigrant’s Plight

Review by Monika Navickaitė

Olga Kosanović sheds light on an immigrant’s reality in present-day Austria, a land where an Eastern European individual is forced to, figuratively speaking, move mountains to endure.

Films On The Circuit

Until I Lie Still

A Solved Mystery Gone Wrong

Review by Ionna Micha

Yana Eresina’s family drama on toxic masculinity and femicide forces us to solve puzzle after puzzle.

Films Now Showing

Hardly Working

Film Or Elevated Video Game Critique?

Review by Vladan Petković

The Austrian collective Total Refusal is back with a well-executed but ultimately prosaic exercise in pseudo-Marxist thinking.

Films Now Showing

Will My Parents Come to See Me

Performative Indifference

Review by Matthew Chan

Mo Harawe has perhaps crafted one of the most cynical films ever made about the death penalty.

Films Archive

Operation Jane Walk

We Built This City

Review by Michiel Philippaerts

In Operation Jane Walk, the Austrian filmmaking duo Leonhard Müllner and Robin Klengel present us with a piece of history in spatial planning, while cleverly marking the virtual as an extension of the historical.