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2018/ Austrian Films - Austrian Film Commission
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Austrian Films
Coming Soon
Austrian Films 2018 – Coming Soon

Published/Copyright by:
Austrian Film Commission
Stiftgasse 6
1070 Vienna – Austria
tel +43 1 526 33 23
office@afc.at
www.AustrianFilms.Com
www.afc.at

Publisher: Martin Schweighofer
Editors: Charlotte Rühm, Karin Schiefer
Appendix: Christa Casanova-Calvi, Brigitte Weich
Graphic design: Perndl+Co
Cover Foto: Nik Merkulov
Printed by: Druckerei Walla, Vienna
Introduction
Call it an obsession or just one of the industry’s    Looking on there will be some more, quite a few
particularities: enthusing over the films lining up   more in fact as you will see browsing this Com-
on the horizon and pretending to know what’s in       ing Soon brochure that will surface at various
the stars for these soon-to-materialize pictures.     festivals in 2018. Let me highlight a few:
A certain breathlessness is part of the game. It’s    ANGELO for example – based on a true story,
about drumming up high expectations and hoping        Markus Schleinzer’s period drama tells the story
that the new films taking shape will be as hot as     of Angelo Soliman, who was brought as a child
they looked on paper.                                 from Africa to Europe at the beginning of the 18th
                                                      century and became the Viennese court Moor.
But then, we also know that once these films          Or Andreas Horvath’s LILLIAN, about a woman
have seen the light of a screen and met the eyes      who leaves what is considered a normal life to
of the critics, the game starts afresh – a new list   walk to the end of the world and vanishes. Or
of the most eagerly awaited titles will appear,       Sudabeh Mortezai’s JOY, about a young Nigerian
holding new promises. This is just the way the        who is looking for a better life – for herself and
film world spins, and Austria is no exception.        her little daughter. And then there are Sebastian
So now, welcome to the next round of Austrian         Brauneis’ elliptical drama SORCERER, Justin P.
films in the making.                                  Lange and Klemens Hufnagel’s scary THE DARK,
                                                      Nikolaus Leytner’s THE TOBACCONIST based
The international festival year for us tradition-     on the best-selling novel by Robert Seethaler
ally opens its doors with events in Sundance or       and Christian Frosch’s shattering THE MURER
Rotterdam and reaches its first peak with the         CASE; among the documentaries watch out
Berlin Film Festival. At the time of writing this     for Hubert Sauper’s Cuban essay EPICENTRO,
introduction the Berlinale premieres confirmed        Erwin Wagenhofer’s BUT BEAUTIFUL and Fritz
so far are:                                           Ofner’s WEAPON OF CHOICE about the iconic
Katharina Mückstein’s powerful L’ANIMALE,             Glock guns.
which unleashes a complex coming-of-age
drama; in THE WALDHEIM WALTZ, Ruth                    The 2018 Austrian Films Coming Soon catalogue
Beckermann settles a score with the former            is an extension of our Austrian Films Review
UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim – who was          2017 yearbook of theatrically released films.
also a forgetful man, especially when it came to      Regardless of where you pick it up, I sincerely
his inglorious role as a Nazi officer in WWII. Also   hope you put it to good use. Wishing you inspir-
surfacing in Berlin will be the coproduction STYX     ing, surprising and challenging encounters.
by Austrian director Wolfgang Fischer – what
starts as a leisurely sailing adventure turns into    Martin Schweighofer
a moral nightmare for its main character.             Executive Director

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Fiction Films
Fiction

6
Fiction

Angelo

 Completion
  expected
 spring 2018

Directed by Markus Schleinzer

Angelo is the story of an African   German, French / digital / 4:3 / 110 min
who is Europeanised by force.       Key cast             Makita Samba, Alba Rohrwacher, Larisa
At the beginning of the 18th                             Faber, Gerti Drassl, Michael Rotschopf
century, as a child, he is taken    Written by           Markus Schleinzer, Alexander Brom
from his homeland and, after        Cinematography       Gerald Kerkletz
being sold, given the epony-        Editing              Pia Dumont
mous name through the sacra-        Production design    Martin Reiter, Andreas Sobotka
ment of baptism. The film is a      Producers            Franz Novotny, Alexander Glehr, Bady
story of becoming human that                             Minck, Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu
is marked above all by roleplay     Production companies Novotny & Novotny Filmproduktion,
                                                         AMOUR FOU Luxembourg
and conformity. It is inspired by
                                    Supported by         Austrian Film Institute, FISA, ORF,
the few surviving records of the
                                                         Vienna Film Fund, Land Niederösterreich
life of the Viennese court moor                          and Filmfund Luxembourg
Angelo Soliman.                     Contact              Novotny & Novotny Filmproduktion
                                                         Weimarerstraße 22/4A
                                                         1180 Vienna – Austria
                                                         tel +43 1 478 71 70
                                                         kino@novotnyfilm.at
                                                         www.novotnyfilm.at

Markus Schleinzer
Filmography (selection): 2011 Michael (fiction)

                                                                                                   7
Fiction

Cops

Directed by Stefan A. Lukacs                                                                   1st film

Young, ambitious police recruit   German / digital / 1:2.39 / 93 min
Chris shoots a mentally ill man   Key cast                    Laurence Rupp, Anton Noori, Maria
on duty. He is celebrated as a                                Hofstätter, Roland Düringer, Michael Fuith
hero, but soon after, traumatic   Written by                  Stefan A. Lukacs
symptoms begin to surface. In     Cinematography              Andreas Thalhammer, Xiaosu Han
a desperate attempt not to be     Editing                     Julia Drack
exposed by his tough supe-        Production design           Julia Oberndorfinger, Attila Plangger
rior Konstantin, he resorts to    Producers                   Arash T. Riahi, Karin C. Berger
excessive violence, in order to   Production company          Golden Girls Film
hide his trauma and fulfill his   Supported by                Austrian Film Institute, ORF,
dream of becoming an elite                                    Vienna Film Fund
cop.                              Contact                     Golden Girls Film
                                                              Seidengasse 15/3/20
                                                              1070 Vienna – Austria
                                                              tel +43 1 810 56 36
                                                              office@goldengirls.at
                                                              www.goldengirls.at

    Completed

Stefan A. Lukacs
Filmography (selection): 2012 Void (short), 2010 Zombiefication (short)

8
Fiction

Der Boden
unter den
Füßen

Directed by Marie Kreutzer

Lola, a young company con-         German / 35 mm / 1:2.35 / 90 min
sultant, 100 working hours         Key cast                  Valerie Pachner, Pia Hierzegger,
and 5 sports units per week.                                 Mavie Hörbiger
Conny, her older sister, para-     Written by                Marie Kreutzer
noid schizophrenic and unable      Cinematography            Leena Koppe
to leave the apartment. Conny      Editing                   Ulrike Kofler
swallows 120 sleeping pills        Production design         Martin Reiter
and is saved. And Lola does not    Producers                 Franz Novotny, Alexander Glehr
even tell anyone that she has a    Production company        Novotny & Novotny Filmproduktion
sister at all.                     Supported by              Austrian Film Institute, ORF,
                                                             Vienna Film Fund
                                   Contact                   Novotny & Novotny Filmproduktion
 Completion                                                  Weimarerstraße 22/4A
  expected                                                   1180 Vienna – Austria
  summer                                                     tel +43 1 478 71 70
    2018                                                     kino@novotnyfilm.at
                                                             www.novotnyfilm.at

Marie Kreutzer
Filmography (selection): 2016 Was hat uns bloß so ruiniert (fiction), 2015 Gruber geht (fiction),
2011 Die Vaterlosen (fiction), 2006 White Box (short)

                                                                                                     9
Fiction

Der
Trafikant
The Tobacconist

 Completion
  expected
 spring 2018

Directed by Nikolaus Leytner

Vienna 1937. Franz, 17, is an ap-   German / digital / Cinemascope / 100 min
prentice in a small shop selling    Key cast             Johannes Krisch, Simon Morzé, Bruno
newspapers, magazines and                                Ganz, Emma Drogunova, Regina Fritsch
tobacco products. It is here        Written by           Klaus Richter, Nikolaus Leytner based on
that he also learns about life                           the novel by Robert Seethaler
and love and all the pleasure       Cinematography       Hermann Dunzendorfer
and pain it can cause. As luck      Editing              Bettina Mazakarini
would have it, he can ask an ex-    Production design    Bertram Reiter
pert who happens to be a regu-      Producers            Dieter Pochlatko, Jakob Pochlatko,
                                                         Ralf Zimmermann
lar customer: Sigmund Freud,
                                    Production companies epo-film, Glory Film (D), Tobis Film (D)
82. But women are as much a
                                    Supported by         Austrian Film Institute, ORF, FISA,
mystery to Freud as they are
                                                         Vienna Film Fund, Land Oberösterreich,
to Franz.                                                Cine Art and FFA, FFF Bayern, DFFF,
                                                         Degeto, IDM Südtirol
                                    Contact              epo-film
                                                         Edelsinnstraße 58
                                                         1120 Vienna – Austria
                                                         tel +43 1 812 37 18
                                                         office@epofilm.com
                                                         www.epofilm.com

Nikolaus Leytner
Filmography (selection): 2016 Die Stille danach (TV), 2015 Der Tote am Teich (TV),
2013 Die Auslöschung (TV), 2009 Der Fall des Lemming (fiction), 1998 Drei Herren (fiction)

10
Fiction

Die letzte
Party
deines
Lebens
The Final Party
of Your Life

Directed by Dominik Hartl

Graduated at last! And off to      German / digital / 1:2.39 / 90 min
Croatia. It’s supposed to be the   Key cast                    Elisabeth Wabitsch, Markus Freistätter,
“party of their lives.” But for                                Alexandra Schmidt, Chantal Zitzenbacher
Julia and her friends their        Written by                  Karin Lomot, Robert Buchschwenter
graduation trip turns into a       Cinematography              Thomas W. Kiennast
horror trip, from which not        Editing                     Daniel Prochaska, Alarich Lenz
everyone will return.              Production design           Hannes Salat, Pia Jaros
                                   Producer                    Florian Gebhardt
                                   Production company          Gebhardt Productions
 Completion                        Supported by                Austrian Film Institute, FISA, ORF,
  expected                                                     Vienna Film Fund, Land Niederösterreich
 spring 2018
                                   Contact                     Gebhardt Productions
                                                               Neusiedlerstraße 50
                                                               2340 Mödling – Austria
                                                               tel +43 2236 64 163
                                                               office@filmpark.tv
                                                               www.filmpark.tv

Dominik Hartl
Filmography (selection): 2016 Attack of the Lederhosenzombies (fiction),
2015 Beautiful Girl (fiction), 2012 Spitzendeckchen (short)

                                                                                                    11
Fiction

Die
Wunder­
übung

 Completion
  expected
 spring 2018

Directed by Michael Kreihsl

Joana and Valentin Dorek are a      German / digital / 1:2.39 / 90 min
married couple going through        Key cast                    Aglaia Szyszkovitz, Devid Striesow,
a crisis. This prompts them                                     Erwin Steinhauer
to take a trial session with a      Written by                  Michael Kreihsl based on
couple’s therapist. In the thera-                               the theatrical piece by Daniel Glattauer
pist’s consulting room they         Cinematography              Wolfgang Thaler
start off with their standard       Editing                     Ulrike Kofler
programme: she won’t stop           Production design           Katrin Huber, Gerhard Dohr
talking and he isn’t even listen-   Producer                    Helmut Grasser
ing. The broken communication       Production company          Allegro Film
between the couple is a real        Supported by                Austrian Film Institute, ORF,
                                                                Vienna Film Fund
challenge for the therapist. He
                                    Contact                     Allegro Film
is almost at his wits’ end when
                                                                Krummgasse 1a
his mobile rings and a surpris-                                 1030 Vienna – Austria
ing message brings chaos into                                   tel +43 1 712 50 36
their therapy session.                                          office@allegrofilm.at
                                                                www.allegrofilm.at

Michael Kreihsl
Filmography (selection): 2016 Liebe möglicherweise (fiction), 2006 Heute heiratet mein Mann (TV),
2000 Heimkehr der Jäger (fiction), 1996 Charms Zwischenfälle (fiction)

12
Fiction

Erik & Erika

Directed by Reinhold Bilgeri

Erik(a) Schinegger – the ski         German / digital / 16:9 / 98 min
star who became a media              Key cast             Markus Freistätter, Birgit Melcher,
sensation. Erika was hailed as                            Marianne Sägebrecht, Gerhard Liebmann
a champion skier, until a sex        Written by           Dirk Kämper
test determined that she was         Cinematography       Carsten Thiele
a he – and Erik was rejected,        Editing              Karin Hartusch
accused of fraud. A story based      Production design    Bertram Reiter
on real life, a tale about nature,   Producers            Tommy Pridnig, Peter Wirthensohn,
the taboo subjects of 1970s                               Till Derenbach, Michael Souvignier
society, and the Austrian Ski        Production companies Lotus-Film, Zeitsprung Pictures (D)
Federation.                          Supported by         Austrian Film Institute, FISA, ORF,
                                                          Vienna Film Fund, Land Kärnten and
                                                          FFF Bayern, SWR
                                     Contact              Lotus-Film
                                                          Mollardgasse 85A / Stiege 1
                                                          1060 Vienna – Austria
                                                          tel +43 1 786 33 87
                                                          office@lotus-film.at
                                                          www.lotus-film.at

 Completion
  expected
 spring 2018

Reinhold Bilgeri
Filmography (selection): 2014 Alles Fleisch ist Gras (TV), 2010 Der Atem des Himmels (fiction)

                                                                                                      13
Fiction

Joy

 Completion
  expected
  summer
    2018

Directed by Sudabeh Mortezai

The story of a young woman         German / digital / 1:1.85 / 100 min
from Nigeria struggling to         Key cast                    Joy Alphonsus, Mariam Precious Sanusi,
survive against life’s hardships                               Angela Ekeleme
and make a better life for         Written by                  Sudabeh Mortezai
herself and her little daughter    Cinematography              Klemens Hufnagl
in Vienna.                         Editing                     Oliver Neumann
                                   Production design           Julia Libiseller
                                   Producers                   Sabine Moser, Oliver Neumann
                                   Production company          FreibeuterFilm
                                   Supported by                Austrian Film Institute, ORF,
                                                               Vienna Film Fund
                                   Contact                     FreibeuterFilm
                                                               Turmburggasse 2-8/5/2
                                                               1060 Vienna – Austria
                                                               tel +43 720 34 65 10
                                                               welcome@freibeuterfilm.at
                                                               www.freibeuterfilm.com

Sudabeh Mortezai
Filmography (selection): 2014 Macondo (fiction), 2009 Im Bazar der Geschlechter (doc.),
2006 Children of the Prophet (doc.)

14
Fiction

Kaviar

Directed by Elena Tikhonova                                                                   1st film

Nadja knows the oligarch Igor      German / digital / 1:2.35 / 90 min
inside out. As his interpreter     Key cast             Margarita Breitkreiz, Daria Nosik, Sabrina
she has seen more of him than                           Reiter, Georg Friedrich, Simon Schwarz
both of them care to admit. But    Written by           Robert Buchschwenter, Elena Tikhonova
his latest project is a lot more   Cinematography       Dominik Spritzendorfer
public: a lavish villa, which he   Editing              Daniel Prochaska, Alarich Lenz,
has decided to build right on                           Dominik Spritzendorfer
top of a bridge in the heart of    Production design    Hannes Salat, Julia Oberdorfinger
Vienna: If the Medici can do       Producers            Ursula Wolschlager, Franz Novotny,
                                                        Alexander Glehr, Kurt Mrkwicka,
it, why not me? But Nadja, her
                                                        Andreas Kamm, Oliver Auspitz
best friend Vera and her nanny
                                   Production companies Witcraft Filmproduktion, Novotny &
Teresa have a sabotage plan.                            Novotny Filmproduktion, MR Film
                                   Supported by         Austrian Film Institute, FISA, ORF,
                                                        Vienna Film Fund, Land Niederösterreich
 Completion                                             and Media/Creative Europe
  expected
 spring 2018                       Contact              Witcraft Filmproduktion
                                                        Lindengasse 25/10
                                                        1070 Vienna – Austria
                                                        tel +43 699 177 881 77
                                                        office@witcraft.at
                                                        www.witcraft.at

Elena Tikhonova
Filmography (selection): 2013 Elektro Moskva (doc., co-dir.), 2012 Made in Austria (short),
2006 Metropolis_reloaded (short)

                                                                                                    15
Fiction

L’Animale

     Completed

Directed by Katharina Mückstein

Riding on their tuned-up bikes,     German / digital / 1:2.39 / 93 min
Mati and her posse of male          Key cast             Sophie Stockinger, Kathrin Resetarits,
friends intimidate their neigh-                          Dominik Warta, Julia Franz Richter
borhood and harass the girls.       Written by           Katharina Mückstein
In their village, they rule. But    Cinematography       Michael Schindegger
when her closest pal Sebas-         Editing              Natalie Schwager
tian falls in love with Mati and    Production design    Katharina Haring
her enemy Carla unexpectedly        Producers            Michael Kitzberger, Wolfgang Widerhofer,
turns into a friend, Mati is in                          Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Markus Glaser,
                                                         Flavio Marchetti, Katharina Mückstein,
danger of losing her standing
                                                         Michael Schindegger, Natalie Schwager
among her male friends. Mean-
                                    Production companies NGF Geyrhalterfilm, La Banda Film
while Mati’s parents have a
                                    Supported by         Austrian Film Institute, FISA, ORF,
decision to make: What’s more                            Vienna Film Fund, Land Niederösterreich
important, appearances or re-       Contact              Films Boutique
ality? L’ Animale is a film about                        Köpenicker Straße 184
the contradictory forces that                            10997 Berlin – Germany
guide our lives: desire, passion,                        tel +49 30 695 378 50
                                                         info@filmsboutique.com
and reason.
                                                         www.filmsboutique.com

Katharina Mückstein
Filmography (selection): 2013 Talea (fiction), 2008 Die Vereinigung (short),
2006 Das Erbe (short doc.), 2005 Siesta (short)

16
Fiction

Lillian

 Completion
  expected
  summer
    2018

Directed by Andreas Horvath

The film tells the story of a     English, German / digital / 1:1.85 / 130 min
young woman who one day,          Key cast                    Patrycja Planik
without any warning, abandons     Written by                  Andreas Horvath
her normal life to go to the      Cinematography              Andreas Horvath, Sonja Aufderklamm
“end of the world”, not just      Editing                     Michael Palm
meta­phorically but also liter-   Producer                    Ulrich Seidl
ally. Starting in New York in     Production company          Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion
March she crosses the con-        Supported by                Austrian Film Institute, FISA, ORF,
tinent of North America and                                   Vienna Film Fund
reaches the Bering Strait by      Contact                     Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion
the following winter. Here we                                 Wasserburgergasse 5/7
                                                              1090 Vienna – Austria
lose track of her. Lillian has
                                                              tel +43 1 310 28 24
vanished. In the desolate                                     office@ulrichseidl.com
wastes of Alaska the camera                                   www.ulrichseidl.com
has detached itself from the
protagonist, and the film ends
the following spring with in-
digenous whale hunters on the
Siberian side of the
Bering Strait.

Andreas Horvath
Filmography (selection): 2015 Helmut Berger, Actor (doc.), 2013 Earth’s Golden Playground (doc.),
2010 Arab Attraction (doc.), 2004 This Ain’t No Heartland (doc.)

                                                                                                    17
Fiction

Murer –
Anatomie
eines
Prozesses
The Murer Case

Directed by Christian Frosch

Graz, Austria 1963. The well-       German / digital / 1:2.35 / 134 min
respected local politician and      Key cast             Karl Fischer, Karl Markovics, Alexander
landowner Franz Murer is on                              Fennon, Roland Jaeger, Melita Jurisic
trial. He is accused of having      Written by           Christian Frosch
committed war crimes in the         Cinematography       Frank Amann
ghetto of Vilnius from 1941-43.     Editing              Karin Hammer
Survivors of the mass murder        Production design    Katharina Wöppermann
arrive to testify and see justice   Producers            Viktoria Salcher, Mathias Forberg,
done. The Ministry of Justice                            Paul Thiltges, Adrien Chef
eventually reaches a deci-          Production companies Prisma Film, Paul Thiltges Distribution (L)
sion. It is one of the greatest     Supported by         Austrian Film Institute, ORF, FISA,
                                                         Vienna Film Fund, Cine Art and
scandals of the Austrian jus-
                                                         Filmfund Luxembourg
tice system – and a timeless,
                                    Contact              Prisma Film
shattering example of political                          Rathausstraße 3/18
calculation.                                             1010 Vienna – Austria
                                                         tel +43 1 406 37 70
                                                         office@prismafilm.at
                                                         www.prismafilm.at
 Completion
  expected
 spring 2018

Christian Frosch
Filmography (selection): 2014 Von jetzt an kein Zurück (fiction), 2007 Weiße Lilien (fiction),
2001 K.aF.ka fragment (fiction), 1996 Die totale Therapie (fiction)

18
Fiction

Styx

  Completed

Directed by Wolfgang Fischer

Styx depicts the transforma-        German / digital / 1:1.85 / 93 min
tion of a strong woman torn         Key cast             Susanne Wolff, Gedion Wekesa Oduor,
from her contented world dur-                            Kelvin Mutuku Ndinda
ing a sailing trip. When she be-    Written by           Wolfgang Fischer, Ika Künzel
comes the only person to come       Cinematography       Benedict Neuenfels
to the aid of a group of refugees   Editing              Monika Willi
shipwrecked on the high seas,       Production design    Volker Rehm
she is shown the limits of her      Producers            Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu,
importance and of the empathy                            Bady Minck, Marcos Kantis,
                                                         Martin Lehwald, Michal Pokorny
of her cultural milieu. She is
                                    Production companies AMOUR FOU Vienna, Schiwago Film (D)
left slipping impotently from
                                    Supported by         Austrian Film Institute and Film-und
one nightmare to the next,
                                                         Medienstiftung NRW, DFFF, MBB, BKM,
and by the end she is forced to                          FFA, Malta Film Commission, Eurimages,
recognize that there is no way                           ARTE/WDR
to counter the cruelties of real    Contact              Beta Cinema
life. Only chance can save her.                          Gruenwalder Weg 28d
                                                         82041 Oberhaching, Munich – Germany
                                                         tel +49 89 673 469 828
                                                         beta@betacinema.com
                                                         www.betacinema.com

Wolfgang Fischer
Filmography (selection): 2009 Was du nicht siehst (fiction), 2001 Grau (short)

                                                                                              19
Fiction

The Dark

 Completion
  expected
 spring 2018

Directed by Justin P. Lange, Klemens Hufnagl                                                      1st film

A murderous, flesh-eating            English / digital / 1:2.35 / 94 min
undead young girl haunting the       Key cast                     Nadia Alexander, Toby Nichols,
remote stretch of woods where                                     Karl Markovics
she was murdered decades             Written by                   Justin P. Lange
earlier discovers a kidnapped        Cinematography               Klemens Hufnagl
and abused boy hiding in the         Editing                      Julia Drack
trunk of one of her victim’s cars.   Production design            Danielle Sahota
Her decision to let the boy live     Producers                    Danny Krausz, Kurt Stocker
throws her aggressively solitary     Production company           Dor Film
existence into upheaval, and         Supported by                 Austrian Film Institute, ORF and NOHFC,
ultimately forces her to re-                                      Canada Tax Credit, Creative Europe
                                                                  Programme – MEDIA of the EU
examine just how much of her
                                     Contact                      XYZ Films
humanity her murderer
                                                                  3103 S La Cienega Blvd
was able to destroy.                                              CA 90016 Los Angeles – USA
                                                                  tel +1 310 956 15 50
                                                                  info@xyzfilms.com
                                                                  www.xyzfilms.com

Justin P. Lange, Klemens Hufnagl
Filmography of joint works (selection): 2018 The Dark (fiction)

20
Fiction

To the Night

Directed by Peter Brunner

Norman, the sole survivor of a         English / digital / 1:2.35 / 94 min
tragic fire when he was just a         Key cast                     Caleb Landry Jones, Eleonore Hendricks,
child, has been struggling with                                     Jana McKinnon, Christos Haas
a lingering feeling of guilt all his   Written by                   Peter Brunner
life. Together with his girlfriend     Cinematography               Daniel Katz
Penelope and his baby son,             Editing                      Peter Brunner
Norman tries to forge a new            Production design            Katie Hickman
life. Norman’s memory is reig-         Producers                    Oliver Neumann, Sabine Moser
nited one night and he sets off        Production company           FreibeuterFilm
on an unparalleled quest, fol-         Supported by                 Austrian Film Institute, ORF
lowing a trail of flames whose         Contact                      FreibeuterFilm
powers shall now heal him.                                          Turmburggasse 2-8/5/2
                                                                    1060 Vienna – Austria
                                                                    tel +43 720 34 65 10
                                                                    welcome@freibeuterfilm.at
 Completion                                                         www.freibeuterfilm.com
  expected
 spring 2018

Peter Brunner
Filmography (selection): 2015 Jeder der fällt hat Flügel (fiction), 2014 Mein blindes Herz (fiction),
2007 Krankheit der Jugend (fiction, co-dir.)

                                                                                                          21
Fiction

Wie ich
lernte, bei
mir selbst
Kind zu sein
How I Learned to
Be My Own Child

Directed by Rupert Henning

Paul Silberstein, youngest          German / digital / 1:2.39 / 110 min
son of an urbane but deeply         Key cast                   Karl Markovics, Sabine Timoteo,
strange old Austrian dynasty                                   Valentin Hagg, André Wilms, Udo Samel
of confectionary millionaires,      Written by                 Uli Brée, Rupert Henning based on the
has been furnished by nature                                   novel by André Heller
with a stunning imagination as      Cinematography             Josef Mittendorfer
well as this difficult legacy. In   Editing                    Alarich Lenz
the Austria of the late 1950s       Production design          Katharina Wöppermann
he discovers the power of love      Producers                  Danny Krausz, Kurt Stocker
and humor – and also his own        Production company         Dor Film
extraordinary ability to shape      Supported by               Austrian Film Institute, FISA, ORF,
                                                               Vienna Film Fund, Land Oberösterreich
his realities.
                                                               and SR/ARTE
                                    Contact                    Dor Film
                                                               Bergsteiggasse 36
 Completion                                                    1170 Vienna – Austria
  expected
 spring 2018                                                   tel +43 1 427 10 11
                                                               office@dor-film.at
                                                               www.dor-film.com

Rupert Henning
Filmography (selection): 2017 Tatort – Schock (TV), 2015 Tatort – Grenzfall (TV),
2006 Freundschaft (fiction)

22
Fiction

Zauberer
Sorcerer

  Completed

Directed by Sebastian Brauneis                                                             1st film

A psychiatrist and his blind         German / digital / 1:1.85 / 113 min
girlfriend, bound by sinister        Key cast             Nicholas Ofczarek, Regina Fritsch, Florian
interest. A school doctor, who                            Teichtmeister, Roland Koch, Joel Basman
lost more than work with her         Written by           Sebastian Brauneis, Clemens Setz,
dismissal. Her brother, who will                          Nicholas Ofczarek
do everything for her. A desper-     Cinematography       Roman Chalupnik
ate mother, who affectionately       Editing              Antonia Adelsberger
cares for her comatose son.          Production design    Uta Wiegele
Willing to try anything just to      Producers            John Lueftner, David Schalko
reach him again. A young man,        Production companies Superfilm, A Film Company (CH)
who sells his body, because he       Supported by         Austrian Film Institute, ORF and Bundesamt
                                                          für Kultur, Zürcher Filmstiftung
lost his self long ago. A student,
                                     Contact              Superfilm
whose supposedly harmless
                                                          Zieglergasse 1
joke connects their destinies.                            1070 Vienna – Austria
And a boy who vanishes and                                tel +43 1 522 19 11
reappears.                                                office@superfilm.at
                                                          www.superfilm.at

Sebastian Brauneis
Filmography (selection): 2015 Bösterreich (TV series), 2012 Sendung ohne Namen (TV series),
2008 Cien w futrach (short), 2005 Sunshine Airlines (short)

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Documentary
Films
Documentary

Bora –
Stories
about a
Wind

Directed by Bernhard Pötscher

The Bora is one of the stron-      Croatian, Italian, English, German / digital / 1:2.35 / 100 min
gest winds on the planet, an       Written by                  Bernhard Pötscher, Bernadette Weigel
outstanding force of nature.       Cinematography              Bernhard Pötscher
It shapes landscapes and           Editing                     Daniel Pöhacker
sets the elements in motion.       Producer                    Bernhard Pötscher
It dominates everyday life and     Production company          Bernhard Pötscher Filmproduktion
penetrates the souls of those      Supported by                Austrian Film Institute, FISA, ORF
living within its influence.       Contact                     Bernhard Pötscher Filmproduktion
                                                               Schwendergasse 41/2/1
                                                               1150 Vienna – Austria
 Completion                                                    tel +43 1 890 427 016
  expected                                                     bernhard@poetscher.com
  fall 2018                                                    www.poetscher.com

Bernhard Pötscher
Filmography (selection): 2012 Kleine Perestrojka (doc.), 1998 The Rounder Girls (doc., co-dir.),
1996 Achtung Staatsgrenze (doc., co-dir.), 1994 Geraubte Kindheit (doc., co-dir.)

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Documentary

Bruder
Jakob,
schläfst du
noch?
Are You Sleeping,
Brother Jakob?

Directed by Stefan Bohun

Four brothers on a journey into     German, English, Portuguese / digital / 16:9 / 85 min
the past. It is a shared path of    Written by                 Stefan, Johannes and David Bohun
memories which starts in the        Cinematography             Klemens Hufnagl
Tyrolean mountains after the        Editing                    Marek Kralovsky
fifth brother’s death and ends      Producers                  Ralph Wieser, David Bohun
in a hotel room in Porto. A per-    Production company         Mischief Films
sonal film about grief and fare-    Supported by               Austrian Film Institute, ORF, Vienna Film
well, about serenity and arrival                               Fund, Cine Tirol, Land Niederösterreich
as well as reunion and retrieval.   Contact                    Mischief Films
                                                               Goethegasse 1
                                                               1010 Vienna – Austria
                                                               tel +43 1 585 23 24 23
     Completed                                                 office@mischief-films.com
                                                               www.mischief-films.com

Stefan Bohun
Filmography (selection): 2014 Musik (short), 2007 Amo Beethoven (short doc.),
2005 Nohelia (short doc.)

28
Documentary

But
Beautiful

 Completion
  expected
  fall 2018

Directed by Erwin Wagenhofer

Love is not merely a feeling.     German, English, Hindi, Spanish / digital / 1:1.85 / 100 min
Love is an immeasurable force     Written by           Sabine Kriechbaum, Erwin Wagenhofer
that connects us. Trusting this   Cinematography       Erwin Wagenhofer
force is one of the most          Editing              Monika Schindler, Erwin Wagenhofer
important challenges we face.     Producers            Sabine Kriechbaum, Erwin Wagenhofer,
There are people who serve as                          Christof Robol, Mathias Forberg,
role models, people who act                            Viktoria Salcher, Peter Rommel
within and through connec-        Production companies Imagine Film Cooperation, Prisma Film,
                                                       Rommel Film (D)
tions. This film is dedicated
                                  Supported by         Austrian Film Institute, ORF and DFFF,
to them and their stories.
                                                       ARTE/RBB, Medienboard MBB, FFA
But Beautiful is a film about
                                  Contact              Imagine Film Cooperation
connections, femininity and                            Capistrangasse 5/54
sensuality. A film about                               1060 Vienna – Austria
beauty—preceded by a but.                              tel +43 664 730 283 44
                                                       office@imaginefilm.at

Erwin Wagenhofer
Filmography (selection): 2013 Alphabet (doc.), 2010 Black Brown White (fiction),
2008 Let’s make MONEY (doc.), 2005 We Feed The World (doc.)

                                                                                                          29
Documentary

Demos

Directed by Robert Schabus

The crisis of western democ-       German, English, French / digital / 1:1.85 / 90 min
racies is ubiquitous and 2017      Written by                  Robert Schabus
seems to be the year of seismic    Cinematography              Lukas Gnaiger
shifts. France and Germany         Editing                     Oliver Neumann
are voting, Greece is suffering,   Producers                   Helmut Grasser
Great Britain is leaving the EU    Production company          Allegro Film
and Donald Trump has taken         Supported by                Austrian Film Institute, FISA, ORF,
office as the newly elected                                    Vienna Film Fund
president of the USA.              Contact                     Allegro Film
Accompanying people from                                       Krummgasse 1a
                                                               1030 Vienna – Austria
various European countries,
                                                               tel +43 1 712 50 36
Demos will take a close look at                                office@allegrofilm.at
the reasons for this crisis.                                   www.allegrofilm.at

 Completion
  expected
  summer
    2018

Robert Schabus
Filmography (selection): 2016 Bauer unser (doc.), 2014 Ort schafft Ort (short doc.),
2012 Murau Montevideo (short doc.), 2008 Betrieb (short doc.)

30
Documentary

Die Burg
The Burg

Directed by Hans Andreas Guttner

A portrait of one of the most        German / digital / 1:1.85 / 90 min
important theatres of the            Written by                  Hans Andreas Guttner
world, Vienna’s Burgtheater.         Cinematography              Roman Chalupnik
It takes you on a cinematic          Editing                     Jean André
journey into the interior of an      Producers                   Hans Andreas Guttner, Jutta Malin
institution, a trip that visualiz-   Production company          Guttner Film
es what is otherwise invisible.      Supported by                Austrian Film Institute, ORF
                                     Contact                     Guttner Film
                                                                 Singerstraße 20/9
 Completion                                                      1010 Vienna – Austria
  expected                                                       tel +43 681 819 631 21
 spring 2018                                                     office@guttnerfilm.at
                                                                 www.guttnerfilm.at

Hans Andreas Guttner
Filmography (selection): 2016 Bei Tag und bei Nacht (doc.), 2010 Sean Scully – Art Comes
From Need (doc.), 2004 Die Megaklinik (doc.), 1996 Kreuz und quer (doc.)

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Documentary

Eisenstraße
The Last
Shipment

 Completion
  expected
 spring 2018

Directed by Sebastian Brameshuber

In a remote workshop not far       German, Igbo, English / digital / 16:9 / 90 min
from the Styrian Erzberg area,     Written by                  Sebastian Brameshuber
Cliff and Magnus have spent        Cinematography              Klemens Hufnagl
the past seven years build-        Editing                     Emily Artmann
ing an export business selling     Producers                   Ralph Wieser, David Bohun,
used cars and parts to their                                   Sebastian Brameshuber
old home country, Nigeria. Re-     Production company          Mischief Films
cently, however, Magnus has        Supported by                BKA – Arts Division, FISA,
been forced to close down the                                  Vienna Film Fund, Land Niederösterreich,
                                                               Land Oberösterreich, Land Steiermark
venture. The Last Shipment
                                                               and Media
tells the story of the imminent
                                   Contact                     Mischief Films
disappearance of this trade                                    Goethegasse 1
route and a merman’s promise                                   1010 Vienna – Austria
that has become a curse.                                       tel +43 1 585 23 24 23
                                                               office@mischief-films.com
                                                               www.mischief-films.com

Sebastian Brameshuber
Filmography (selection): 2015 In, Over & Out (short), 2014 Und in der Mitte, da sind wir (doc.);
Of Stains, Scrap and Tires (short doc.), 2009 Muezzin (doc.)

32
Documentary

Epicentro

Directed by Hubert Sauper

A film about the butterfly effect   Spanish / digital / 1:1.85 / 90 min
in geopolitics, the paradox of      Written by           Hubert Sauper
time, about the (almost) end of     Cinematography       Hubert Sauper
the world, the cinematograph,       Editing              Hubert Sauper
about sex, and sugar.               Producers            Gabriele Kranzelbinder, Paolo Calamita,
                                                         Daniel Marquet, Martin Marquet
                                    Production companies KGP Kranzelbinder Gabriele Production,
 Completion                                              Little Magnet Films, Groupe Deux (F)
  expected
  summer                            Supported by         Austrian Film Institute, FISA, ORF and
    2018                                                 Eurimages, Cine+, Sofica,
                                                         Ford Foundation, Impact Partners
                                    Contact              KGP Kranzelbinder Gabriele Production
                                                         Seidengasse 15/3/19
                                                         1070 Vienna – Austria
                                                         tel +43 1 522 22 21
                                                         welcome@kgp.co.at
                                                         www.kgp.co.at

Hubert Sauper
Filmography (selection): 2014 We Come As Friends (doc.), 2004 Darwin’s Nightmare (doc.),
1998 Kisangani Diary (doc.)

                                                                                               33
Documentary

Erde
Earth

 Completion
  expected
  fall 2018

Directed by Nikolaus Geyrhalter

We walk all over it every day of    without dialogue / digital / 16:9 / 90 min
our lives. We plow it, we dig it,   Written by                  Nikolaus Geyrhalter
and we drill it; we cover it up     Cinematography              Nikolaus Geyrhalter
with concrete. We map it and        Editing                     Niki Mossböck
we measure it; we draw our          Producers                   Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Michael Kitzberger
borders onto it; and we imagine                                 Wolfgang Widerhofer Markus Glaser
that it belongs to us. We live      Production company          NGF Geyrhalterfilm
by what it produces, and we         Supported by                Austrian Film Institute, FISA, ORF,
bury our dead in it. We take its                                Vienna Film Fund
existence for granted; it seems     Contact                     NGF Geyrhalterfilm
                                                                Hildebrandgasse 26
invincible, indestructible. If we
                                                                1180 Vienna – Austria
consider our planet to be an                                    tel +43 1 403 01 62
organism, its crust – just                                      office@geyrhalterfilm.com
40 kilometers thick – is its                                    www.geyrhalterfilm.com
most delicate organ by far.

Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Filmography (selection): 2016 Homo Sapiens (doc.), 2012 Donauspital – SMZ Ost (doc.),
2011 Abendland (doc.), 2005 Unser Täglich Brot (doc.), 2001 Elsewhere (doc.)

34
Documentary

I’m a
Bad Guy

Directed by Susanne Freund

Adolf Schandl has 40 years of       German / digital / 1:1.85 / 90 min
incarceration and many failed       Written by                  Susanne Freund
breakout attempts behind him.       Cinematography              Jerzy Palacz
Recently released, the 80-year-     Editing                     Michou Hutter
old is now planning his final       Producer                    Kurt Mayer
escape. He wants to return to       Production company          kurt mayer film
Australia one more time. His        Supported by                FISA, ORF, Vienna Film Fund
dream country, where he lived       Contact                     kurt mayer film
a long time ago, and where                                      Heinestraße 36/1/2
life was good. On the way, the                                  1020 Vienna – Austria
                                                                tel +43 1 967 89 29
sweet Grandpa with the gentle
                                                                office@kurtmayerfilm.com
gaze falls away layer by layer,                                 www.kurtmayerfilm.com
to reveal personality traits that
are shockingly of our time.

 Completion
  expected
 spring 2018

Susanne Freund
Filmography (selection): 2006 Big Alma (TV doc.), 1998 Manege schön (doc.),
1996 Im Namen Gottes (doc.), 1994 Vorwärts (doc.), 1992 Das heimliche Fest (doc.)

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Documentary

Kinder
unter Deck
Children
below Deck

Directed by Bettina Henkel                                                                       1st film

The film is the personal story     German, Latvian, Polish / digital / 1:1.85 / 92 min
of three generations: the (late)   Written by                  Bettina Henkel
grandmother, the father and        Cinematography              Astrid Heubrandtner-Verschuur
the daughter, who is direct-       Editing                     Oliver Neumann, Niki Mossböck
ing the film. It focuses on the    Producers                   Oliver Neumann, Sabine Moser
trans-generational transfer of     Production company          FreibeuterFilm
traumatic experiences. It’s a      Supported by                BKA – Arts Division, FISA, ORF,
spiritual road movie through                                   Vienna Film Fund
deep and diffuse layers of feel-   Contact                     FreibeuterFilm
ings resulting from historical                                 Turmburggasse 2-8/5/2
                                                               1060 Vienna – Austria
transformations in north-
                                                               tel +43 720 34 65 10
eastern Europe.                                                welcome@freibeuterfilm.at
                                                               www.freibeuterfilm.com

 Completion
  expected
 spring 2018

Bettina Henkel
Filmography (selection): 2018 Kinder unter Deck (doc.)

36
Documentary

Kino
Wien
Film

 Completion
  expected
 spring 2018

Directed by Paul Rosdy

Kino Wien Film is a cinematic       German / digital / 16:9 / 86 min
history of Vienna, from 1896        Written by                 Paul Rosdy
until today. What, next to          Cinematography             Peter Roehsler
technical and media develop-        Editing                    Paul Rosdy
ments, did cinemas have to go       Producer                   Paul Rosdy
through? An interwoven film         Production company         Rosdy Film
collage of archival material        Supported by               Vienna Film Fund, VAM,
(film, photo, text) and filming                                Filmarchiv Austria
in the present time, not chrono-    Contact                    Rosdy Film
logically told, tries to communi-                              Lustkandlgasse 51/4-5
                                                               1090 Vienna – Austria
cate: what, next to all the
                                                               tel +43 1 319 81 42
films that can be seen there,                                  office@rosdyfilm.com
is cinema?                                                     www.rosdyfilm.com

Paul Rosdy
Filmography (selection): 2011 Der letzte Jude von Drohobytsch (doc.), 2005 Neue Welt (doc.),
1998 Zuflucht in Shanghai (doc., co-dir.)

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Documentary

Manaslu –
Berg der
Seelen

 Completion
  expected
  fall 2018

Directed by Gerald Salmina

Since 1996 Hans Kammer­              German / digital / 1:2.39 / 100 min
lan­der has held the record          Written by                 Gerald Salmina
for the fastest ascent on the        Cinematography             Günther Göberl
north route to the summit of         Editing                    David Hofer
Mount Everest in 16 hours            Producer                   Gerald Salmina
and 40 minutes, followed by          Production company         Planet Watch Film & Video Productions
the first ski descent from the       Supported by               Austrian Film Institute, FISA, ORF,
highest mountain in the world.                                  Servus TV and IDM Südtirol
This outstanding achievement         Contact                    Planet Watch Film & Video Productions
made him world famous. Hans                                     Pirkhofweg 25
                                                                9210 Pörtschach – Austria
Kammerlander experienced his
                                                                tel +43 664 340 54 10
most painful moment in 1991                                     planetwatch@icloud.com
at the Manaslu in Nepal, where                                  www.planetwatch.at
he tragically lost two of his best
friends.

Gerald Salmina
Filmography (selection): 2015 Streif – One Hell of a Ride! (doc.), 2010 Die Felix Baumgartner
Story (TV doc.), 2009 Mount St. Elias (doc.)

38
Documentary

Maut­hausen –
Zwei Leben
Mauthausen –
Two Lives

Directed by Simon Wieland

The documentary tells the dra-      German / digital / 16:9 / 90 min
matic story of two people who       Written by                 Simon Wieland, Andreas Kuba
lived in Mauthausen during the      Cinematography             Simon Wieland
Nazi regime: one inside, in the     Editing                    Marlenn Paeschke
concentration camp; the other       Producer                   Simon Wieland
outside, in the town of Maut­       Production company         Simon Wieland Film
hausen. One was among the           Supported by               Austrian Film Institute, ORF,
victims; the other, the perpetra-                              Land Oberösterreich
tors. Two fates running parallel    Contact                    Simon Wieland Film
in time and place, but while                                   Liechtensteinstraße 16
                                                               2130 Mistelbach – Austria
they couldn’t have been more
                                                               tel +43 664 203 99 70
diametrically opposed, they                                    mail@simonwieland.com
still share so many oppressive                                 www.simonwieland.com
and un­settling aspects.

                                                                                         Completion
                                                                                          expected
                                                                                         spring 2018

Simon Wieland
Filmography (selection): 2016 Unser Kampf (doc.), 2013 Nemci Ven – Deutsche raus! (doc.),
2012 Heil Hitler – Die Russen kommen (doc.)

                                                                                                   39
Documentary

Mein
Stottern
Stuttering –
My Constant
Companion

Directed by Petra Nickel, Birgit Gohlke                                                          1st film

The King’s Speech reopens old      German, English / digital / 1:1.85 / 90 min
wounds for Birgit. She realises    Written by                  Petra Nickel, Birgit Gohlke
that she has to make peace         Cinematography              Judith Benedikt, Martin Putz
with her stuttering. To accom-     Editing                     Lisa Zoe Geretschläger, Julia Pontiller
plish this she confronts herself   Producer                    Peter Janecek
with other stutterers, their       Production company          Plaesion Film
tactics and also her own past.     Supported by                Austrian Film Institute, ORF, Cine Art,
                                                               Land Niederösterreich, Land Tirol,
                                                               Wien Kultur
                                   Contact                     filmdelights
     Completed                                                 Lindengasse 25/10
                                                               1070 Vienna – Austria
                                                               tel +43 1 944 30 35
                                                               office@filmdelights.com
                                                               www.filmdelights.com

Petra Nickel, Birgit Gohlke
Filmography of joint works (selection): 2018 Mein Stottern (doc.)

40
Documentary

Pinkafeld

 Completion
  expected
 spring 2018

Directed by Elke Groen

Pinkafeld is a small city in Aus-   German / digital / 16:9 / 75 min
tria that gained adverse public-    Written by                 Elke Groen
ity as “Nazi village” during the    Cinematography             Elke Groen
presidential election of 2017       Editing                    Emily Artmann
when a majority of its citizens     Producers                  Arash T. Riahi, Karin Berger, Elke Groen
voted for their famous neigh-       Production companies       Golden Girls Film, Groen. Film
bor, the right wing candidate       Supported by               BKA – Arts Division, Wien Kultur
Norbert Hofer. What do people       Contact                    Golden Girls Film
really think in regard to home-                                Seidengasse 15/3/20
land, refugees and populism?                                   1070 Vienna – Austria
                                                               tel +43 1 810 56 36
Pinkafeld shows a society in
                                                               office@goldengirls.at
transition, a small city that re-                              www.goldengirls.at
flects Europe’s zeitgeist.

Elke Groen
Filmography (selection): 2006 Jeder siebte Mensch (doc., co-dir.), 2005 Bunica (doc., co-dir.)

                                                                                                          41
Documentary

Projektion
Österreich:
The Story
of Austrian
Cinema

Directed by Frederick Baker

The first ever feature-length       German / digital / 1:2.39 / 120 min
film essay telling the story        Written by                 Frederick Baker
of Austrian cinema from the         Cinematography             Christian Haake
Austro-Hungarian Empire to the      Editing                    Susan Korda
present day. From Luise Kolm,       Producers                  Sandra Fasolt-Baker, Frederick Baker
one of the world’s first ever fe-   Production company         Filmbäckerei
male directors, to the arthouse     Supported by               Austrian Film Institute, FISA, ORF,
stars Michael Haneke, Stefan                                   Land Niederösterreich and ARTE
Ruzowitzky, Ulrich Seidl and        Contact                    Filmbäckerei
Jessica Hausner. The film will                                 Margaretenstraße 71-73/1/28
                                                               1050 Vienna – Austria
explore cinema as a projection
                                                               tel +43 664 181 10 33
of the complex relationship be-                                baker@chello.at
tween Austrian national identity                               www.filmbaeckerei.at
and individual actors, direc-
tors and producers over the
century, both inside and out-
side present-day Austria, from
Eric von Stroheim, Fritz Lang                                                            Completion
and G.W.Pabst to Hedy Lamarr,                                                             expected
                                                                                         spring 2018
Paula Wessely, Billy Wilder,
Otto Preminger and Max Steiner.

Frederick Baker
Filmography (selection): 2014 Und Äktschn! (fiction), 2010 Widerstand im Haiderland (doc.),
2008 Romy Schneider (TV doc.), 2005 Shadowing the Third Man (doc.)

42
Documentary

The
Green Lie

  Completed

Directed by Werner Boote

Eco-friendly electric cars,       German / digital / 1:1.85 / 93 min
sustainably produced palm oil,    Written by                  Werner Boote
fair trade goods: hooray! Trust   Cinematography              Dominik Spritzendorfer, Mario Hötschl
the corporations that tell you    Editing                     Gernot Grassl, Roland Buzzi
we can save the world by buy-     Producers                   Markus Pauser, Erich Schindlecker
ing the right things. This is a   Production company          e&a film
popular and dangerous lie, as     Supported by                Austrian Film Institute, ORF,
Werner Boote and environmen-                                  Vienna Film Fund
tal journalist Kathrin Hartmann   Contact                     e&a film
explain in this controversial                                 Proschkogasse 1/12
                                                              1060 Vienna – Austria
documentary: Stop the green
                                                              tel +43 1 890 60 38
lies.                                                         produktion@eafilm.at
                                                              www.eafilm.at

Werner Boote
Filmography (selection): 2015 Alles unter Kontrolle (doc.); Morgenland im Abenland (TV doc.),
2013 Population Boom (doc.), 2011 9/11 – Silver Linings (TV doc.), 2009 Plastic Planet (doc.)

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Documentary

The
Remains

 Completion
  expected
  fall 2018

Directed by Nathalie Borgers

The Remains follows a double      German, English, Greek / digital / 1:1.85 / 90 min
storyline, the work of commit-    Written by                  Nathalie Borgers
ted helpers on the one hand       Cinematography              Johannes Hammel
and the waiting of families on    Editing                     Sophie Reiter
the other hand. Through the       Producer                    Johannes Rosenberger
sensitive intertwining of these   Production company          Navigator Film
two elements, the film ques-      Supported by                Austrian Film Institute, FISA, ORF,
tions the EU migration policies                               Vienna Film Fund, Karl Kahane Stiftung,
and addresses the theme dear                                  RD Foundation Vienna
to Antigone: whether good or      Contact                     Navigator Film
                                                              Schottenfeldgasse 14
bad, known or nameless, legal
                                                              1070 Vienna – Austria
or illegal, human beings de-                                  tel +43 1 524 97 77
serve a last tribute.                                         info@navigatorfilm.com
                                                              www.navigatorfilm.com

Nathalie Borgers
Filmography (selection): 2015 Fang den Haider (doc.), 2011 Greetings from the Colony (doc.),
2009 Winds of Sand, Women of Rock (doc.)

44
Documentary

The Royal
Line

Directed by Johannes Holzhausen

Once a year, a very special train   Romanian, English / digital / 1:1.85 / 100 min
sets off on a journey through       Written by                  Johannes Holzhausen, Constantin Wulff
the Romanian countryside.           Cinematography              Joerg Burger
Thousands of people gather          Editing                     Dieter Pichler
along its route to enthusiasti-     Producers                   Johannes Rosenburger, Ada Solomon
cally greet and cheer some of       Production companies        Navigator Film, HiFilm Productions (RO)
the descendents of the last         Supported by                Austrian Film Institute, FISA, ORF,
King of Romania.The Royal Line                                  Vienna Film Fund and TVR
highlights the backdrop for this    Contact                     Wide House
nostalgic journey and starts                                    9 rue Bleue
                                                                75009 Paris – France
off a cinematic expedition into
                                                                tel +33 1 53 95 94 65
both the past and the present                                   ac@widehouse.org
of this East European state: of                                 www.widehouse.org
high-profile royalist production
in a post communist republic.

 Completion
  expected
  summer
    2018

Johannes Holzhausen
Filmography (selection): 2014 Das große Museum (doc.), 2001 Auf allen Meeren (doc.)

                                                                                                      45
Documentary

Traum­
fabrik
Dream Factory

 Completion
  expected
  fall 2018

Directed by Marko Doringer

“You are to blame, if your work      German, English / digital / 16:9 / 90 min
is no fun.” Our contemporary         Written by                  Marko Doringer
life is dominated by self de-        Cinematography              Marko Doringer
termined innovative models           Producer                    Marko Doringer
of work. At the same time we         Production company          Filmfabrik
are forced to participate in a       Supported by                Austrian Film Institute, FISA, ORF,
rat race of an achievement ori-                                  Vienna Film Fund, Land Niederösterreich,
ented market economy. Mod-                                       Land Salzburg
ern working systems promise          Contact                     Filmfabrik
                                                                 Marko Doringer Filmproduktion
more room for maneuver, more
                                                                 Ferdinand-Raimund-Gasse 4
personal liberties for all, at the                               2344 Maria Enzersdorf – Austria
same time forcing us to work                                     tel +43 699 119 163 21
anywhere at any time. Where                                      doringer_m@yahoo.com
exactly are we headed? Are                                       www.filmfabrik.com
we really looking at a brighter
future? Or are we simply losing
the plot? What are we doing
this for? And for whom?

Marko Doringer
Filmography (selection): 2013 Nägel mit Köpfen (doc.), 2008 Mein halbes Leben (doc.),
2004 In Tirana und anderswo (short doc.)

46
Documentary

Waldheims
Walzer
The Waldheim
Waltz

  Completed

Directed by Ruth Beckermann

A film about truth and lies or      German, English, French / digital / compilation film / 93 min
“alternative facts”. Ruth Becker-   Written by                 Ruth Beckermann
mann documents the process          Editing                    Dieter Pichler
of uncovering former UN Sec-        Producer                   Ruth Beckermann
retary General Kurt Waldheim’s      Production company         Ruth Beckermann Filmproduktion
wartime past. It shows the swift    Supported by               Austrian Film Institute, FISA, ORF,
succession of new allegations                                  Vienna Film Fund
by the World Jewish Congress        Contact                    Ruth Beckermann Filmproduktion
during his Austrian presiden-                                  Marc-Aurel-Straße 5/10
                                                               1010 Vienna – Austria
tial campaign, the denial by
                                                               tel +43 699 115 074 98
the Austrian political class, the                              sekretariat@ruthbeckermann.com
outbreak of anti-Semitism and                                  www.ruthbeckermann.com
patriotism, which finally led to
his election. Created from inter-
national archive material and
what Beckermann shot at the
time, film analyses the collapse
of the Austrian grand illusion:
having been the first victim of
the Nazis.

Ruth Beckermann
Filmography (selection): 2016 Die Geträumten (fiction), 2013 Those Who Go Those Who Stay (doc.),
2011 American Passages (doc.), 2001 homemad(e) (doc.), 1996 Jenseits des Krieges (doc.)

                                                                                                         47
Documentary

Weapon of
Choice

     Completed

Directed by Fritz Ofner

“They never fail.” The Glock pis-    German, English, Arabic, Kurdish / digital / 16:9 / 90 min
tol has been fetishised in films     Written by                  Fritz Ofner
and the arts, and is a regular       Cinematography              Fritz Ofner
topseller in the international       Editing                     Gerhard Daurer, Karina Ressler
arms market. For the first time,     Producer                    Fritz Ofner
the filmmaking duo Fritz Ofner       Production company          Friedrich Ofner Film-und Videoproduktion
and Eva Hausberger tell the          Supported by                Austrian Film Institute, FISA, ORF,
story of the rise of the Glock: An                               Vienna Film Fund
Austrian design that became          Contact                     Friedrich Ofner Film-und Videoproduktion
the most sought-after service                                    Beingasse 27/14
                                                                 1150 Vienna – Austria
and murder weapon world-
                                                                 tel +43 650 530 15 05
wide. Tracing the web of power,                                  office@fritzofner.info
money, violence and politics,                                    www.fritzofner.info
the film portrays the dark sides
of globalisation and not least
an Austrian tale of willful
ignorance.

Fritz Ofner
Filmography (selection): 2012 Libya Hurra (doc.); Beirut Blend (short doc.), 2011 Evolution der
Gewalt (doc.), 2010 From Bagdad to Dallas (short doc.)

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Documentary

Welcome to
Sodom

Directed by Florian Weigensamer, Christian Krönes

The demand for the latest elec-     German, English / digital / 16:9 / 90 min
tronic accessories in Europe is     Written by                  Roland Schrotthofer, Florian Weigensamer
exploding. Manufacturers regu-      Cinematography              Christian Kermer
larly report record sales. Mobile   Editing                     Christian Kermer
phones, LCD TVs, notebooks          Producers                   Christian Krönes, Roland Schrotthofer
and the likes become use-           Production company          Blackbox Film & Medienproduktion
less and “out” relatively soon      Supported by                Austrian Federal Ministry of Education,
after their release. Hundreds                                   Austrian Film Institute, ORF, education 21,
of thousands of these end up                                    Cine Art
in Ghana where children and         Contact                     Blackbox Film & Medienproduktion
                                                                Hietzinger Kai 205 d
adolescents dismantle them in
                                                                1130 Vienna – Austria
toxic smoke. A “clean” business                                 tel +43 1 877 28 57
for some, a poisonous routine                                   office@blackboxfilm.at
for others.                                                     www.blackboxfilm.at

 Completion
  expected
 spring 2018

Florian Weigensamer, Christian Krönes
Filmography of joint works (selection): 2016 Ein deutsches Leben (doc., co-dir.),
2010 Gola Zareen – The World in a Ball (doc.)

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Documentary

Widerstands-
momente
Moments of
Resistance

Directed by Jo Schmeiser

Moments of Resistence carries       German / digital / 1:1.85 / 90 min
voices, writings and objects        Written by                  Jo Schmeiser
from the anti-Nazi resistance       Cinematography              Sophie Maintigneux
into the present. Politically en-   Editing                     Michael Palm
gaged women of today respond        Producer                    Peter Janecek
to historical resistance and        Production company          Plaesion Film
make links to current events.       Supported by                BKA – Arts Division, The Future Fund of
A line is drawn from what was                                   the Republic of Austria, ORF, Land
before and what is today to                                     Niederösterreich, Land Steiermark, Stadt
                                                                Graz, Wien Kultur, Otto-Mauer-Fonds
what might be: a society based
                                    Contact                     Plaesion Film
on solidarity without discrimi-
                                                                Schlosshofer Straße 8/4/3
nation or exclusion.                                            2301 Groß-Enzersdorf – Austria
                                                                tel +43 660 213 69 66
                                                                office@plaesion.com
 Completion                                                     www.plaesion.com
  expected
  fall 2018

Jo Schmeiser
Filmography (selection): 2010 Liebe Geschichte (doc., co-dir.), 2004 Things. Places. Years (doc., co-dir.)

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Documentary

Wolken­
kratzerin

 Completion
  expected
  summer
    2018

Directed by Lisa Weber

Claudia is fleeing. She is fleeing   German / digital / 1:1.85 / 90 min
from responsibility, from deci-      Written by                  Lisa Weber
sions. She got pregnant aged         Cinematography              Carolina Steinbrecher
14, her son Daniel became            Editing                     Roland Stöttinger
her excuse for dropping out          Producers                   Rudolf Takacs, Ulrich Seidl
of school and never trying to        Production companies        Takacs Filmproduktion,
find a job. In her head, she has                                 Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion
big plans, but in her life, she is   Supported by                Austrian Film Institute, FISA, ORF
scared to take the first step.       Contact                     Takacs Filmproduktion
Now she has to make a deci-                                      Anton-Freunschlag-Gasse 99
                                                                 1230 Vienna – Austria
sion: Either keep running from
                                                                 tel +43 699 195 886 60
life or finally grow up.                                         rudi.takacs@gmx.at

Lisa Weber
Filmography (selection): 2014 Sitzfleisch (doc.), 2012 Twinni oder so (short), 2011 Die und der von da
und dort (short doc.), 2010 Kommt ein Sonnenstrahl in die Tiefkühlabteilung und weicht alles auf (short)

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Documentary

Zeit für
Utopien
Utopia Revisited

 Completion
  expected
 spring 2018

Directed by Kurt Langbein

Market economy has brought        German / digital / 1:1.85 / 95 min
welfare to the industrialised     Written by                  Kurt Langbein,
states – at the cost of other                                 Anna Katharina Wohlgenannt
continents and along with         Cinematography              Christian Roth
growing inequality. The film      Editing                     Alexandra Wedenig
asks if there is – besides        Producer                    Kurt Langbein
capitalism – any model of so-     Production company          Langbein & Partner Media
ciety worth discussing about?     Supported by                Austrian Film Institute, FISA, ORF,
Protagonists of four projects                                 Vienna Film Fund
take us along their personal      Contact                     Langbein & Partner Media
                                                              Kellermanngasse 5/12
journeys towards possibili-
                                                              1070 Vienna – Austria
ties to share, to cooperate and                               tel +43 1 535 36 96
to preserve nature. Experts                                   redaktion@langbein-partner.com
additionally give insights into                               www.langbein-partner.com
the economic significance of
cooperation and of a moderate
economic development instead
of unlimited growth.

Kurt Langbein
Filmography (selection): 2015 Landraub (doc.), 2012 Grenzfälle – erzählt von Robert Menasse (doc.);
Wunder Heilung (TV doc.)

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Documentary

Zu ebener
Erde
Down and Out

Directed by Birgit Bergmann, Steffi Franz, Oliver Werani

You see them at the same time       German / digital / 1:1.85 / 91 min
you do not see them: Homeless       Written by                  Steffi Franz
people are often invisible to the   Cinematography              Oliver Werani
rest of the world. In the long-     Editing                     Birgit Bergmann
term observation documentary        Producers                   Johannes Rosenberger, Constantin Wulff
Down and Out some of them           Production company          Navigator Film
are closely portrayed.              Supported by                Austrian Film Institute, ORF,
                                                                Vienna Film Fund
                                    Contact                     Navigator Film
 Completion                                                     Schottenfeldgasse 14
  expected                                                      1070 Vienna – Austria
 spring 2018                                                    tel +43 1 524 97 77
                                                                info@navigatorfilm.com
                                                                www.navigatorfilm.com

Birgit Bergmann, Steffi Franz, Oliver Werani
Filmography (selection of joint works): 2014 Dreck ist Freiheit (doc.), 2013 Treibstoff (doc.)

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Appendix
Directors                  Producers

     Frederick Baker 42         Allegro Filmproduktion 12, 30
     Ruth Beckermann 47         AMOUR FOU Vienna 19
     Birgit Bergmann 53         Bernhard Pötscher
     Reinhold Bilgeri 13        Filmproduktion 27
     Stefan Bohun 28            Blackbox Film &
     Werner Boote 43            Medienproduktion 49
     Nathalie Borgers 44        Dor Film 20, 22
     Sebastian Brameshuber 32   e&a film 43
     Sebastian Brauneis 23      epo-film 10
     Peter Brunner 21           Filmbäckerei 42
     Marko Doringer 46          Filmfabrik Marko Doringer
     Wolfgang Fischer 19        Filmproduktion 46
     Steffi Franz 53            FreibeuterFilm 14, 21, 36
     Susanne Freund 35          Friedrich Ofner Film-und
     Christian Frosch 18        Videoproduktion 48
     Nikolaus Geyrhalter 34     Gebhardt Productions 11
     Birgit Gohlke 40           Golden Girls Film 8, 41
     Elke Groen 41              Guttner Film 31
     Hans Andreas Guttner 31    Imagine Film Cooperation 29
     Dominik Hartl 11           KGP Kranzelbinder Gabriele
     Bettina Henkel 36          Production 33
     Rupert Henning 22          kurt mayer film 35
     Johannes Holzhausen 45     La Banda Film 16
     Andreas Horvath 17         Langbein & Partner Media 52
     Klemens Hufnagl 20         Little Magnet Films 33
     Michael Kreihsl 12         Lotus-Film 13
     Marie Kreutzer 9           Mischief Films 28, 32
     Christian Krönes 49        MR Film 15
     Kurt Langbein 52           Navigator Film 44, 45
     Justin P. Lange 20         NGF Geyrhalterfilm 16, 34
     Nikolaus Leytner 10        Novotny & Novotny
     Stefan A. Lukacs 8         Filmproduktion 7, 9, 15
     Sudabeh Mortezai 14        PLAESION Film + Vision 40, 50
     Katharina Mückstein 16     Planet Watch Film &
     Petra Nickel 40            Video Productions 38
     Fritz Ofner 48             Prisma Film-und
     Bernhard Pötscher 27       Fernsehproduktion 18, 29
     Paul Rosdy 37              Rosdy Film 37
     Gerhard Salmina 38         Ruth Beckermann
     Hubert Sauper 33           Filmproduktion 47
     Robert Schabus 30          Simon Wieland Film 39
     Markus Schleinzer 7        Superfilm 23
     Joe Schmeiser 50           Takacs Filmproduktion 51
     Elena Tikhonova 15         Ulrich Seidl
     Erwin Wagenhofer 29        Film Produktion 17 , 51
     Lisa Weber 51              Witcraft Filmproduktion 15
     Florian Weigensamer 49
     Oliver Werani 53
     Simon Wieland 39

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