Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Wien

A gasman at work. A couple who go big-game hunting have a collection of trophies. Daily life in the jungle of the city, biding time and drinking tea.

After a car accident, Sebastian contracts an uncanny sleeping sickness. Every day he sleeps a minute longer than the preceding day. Sebastian attempts to find out on his own what sleep is.

Witty, literary and intellectual Kammerspiel film which presents the day after the end of the world as an allegory.

A day in the life of factory worker Rudolf S. Trapped in a routine existence, he takes refuge in dreams, visions, hallucinations... and the South Seas.

Pictures of everyday life of an old woman: During the week she waits for one event, the visit of her daughter on Sunday.

Idomeneus, King of Crete, one of the great heroes during the total destruction of the famous city of Troy was sailing back to his realm when a terrible storm broke loose near the city of Sidon. The storm was of such violence that in his fear Idomeneus made a solemn promise to Neptune, God of the Seas, to sacrifice the first person -no matter who it be- that he would meet on the shore if he and his people would only get there safely.

A musical narratrive about Yugoslavian immigrants haunted by the hymns of their homeland.

The Macedonian Soltana is the last original inhabitant of Europe. She still remembers the first automobile: she thought it was a terrible monster. She is neither capable of reading nor writing. At the age of 18, her family takes her to Austria, where she has the opportunity to marry a rich man. No use to think twice about it - Soltana obeys. As a woman, she says, she has no alternative. In Soltana's life no big events took place. But those who look closely are bound to discover tremendous openness and vitality in the small steps of her life.

A petrol pump attendant falls in love with a waitress of the service station restaurant. He manages to get the relationship started and even goes as far as buying her a new pair of shoes, but in the end fails to win her heart.

Blasius is plagued by the memory of a car accident. He in turn plagues his aunt, until she finally tramples on his favourite toy car. Their tiny Viennese residence becomes jsut too small.

In order to obtain his rehabilitation with his professional association because of malpractice committed in the past, Dr. Wilhelm Andacht, a dentist, must track down an ex-colleague, Dr. Engelbert Lang, and do away with him. The latter has been using rather unusual, very successful but unapproved methods of treatment. In addition, he enjoys great popularity among the population of the Totes Gebirge. To help him do his job, Dr. Andacht has been given a doctor, a masseur and an operating room aid. All of them are to be rehabilitated too. Their undertaking is a disastrous flop.

The film tries to retain the memory, the compulsion and the nostalgia of a text by Marguerite Duras.

For centuries the Germans and Slovenes lived in peace with one another in southern Styria. Then, when the border was defined, the killing began. A picture of southern Styria far removed from the usual associations of wine-drinking, merry-making and seclusion and the literary fantasies about it...

All are waiting everywhere

Stranger. Strange country. Strange city. Stranger in this city. Man from Sri Lanka. Distributor of brochures. Homestead in this foreign city?

"Beautiful Homes" in the province. Martin loves Agnes. Agnes loves Martin, platonically. Daily routine after lunch: SEX. They have no secrets, but stringent regulations. Everything super-duper? If only the ARCHITECTS OF LOVE knew more about statics.

A black comedy from Styria on the subjects of hanging, heavenly music and strange burial costumes.

What does a lion think when he sees a person in a wheelchair in the desert? - "Meals on Wheels..."

A man wakes up and doesn't know what has happened. Moments of memory and traces, which seem to fall in place, lead him to believe that he has murdered a woman.

The Hartmut-Wolf-System is a relationship between two people which adheres to strict internal and external rules. The Hartmut-Wolf-System leads to self-destruction. A face à la viennoise.