Filmakademie Wien

Someone is captured in 4K, high definition, caught red-handed on the internet. ​Eleven-year-old Ava is home alone. She skilfully presents herself online. Takes Selfies. Dances. Puts on make-up. TOM_X12 likes this.

Mia and Karo are 10 years old and inseparable. They spend every free minute at the playground by the roundabout. Karo loves to tease others— especially Miriam, who has no friends at school. But sometimes she goes too far. When Mia secretly undoes one of Karo’s pranks and gets caught, everything changes between the two friends.

Ingbert, the sock, applies for a position as a double bass player at the Vienna State Orchestra. Bad idea.

While in comas, two burned out young men in two different corners of the world have a mysterious telepathic connection and swap talents, leading them to wake up with new personalities, much to the bewilderment of their respective parents.

Alex works as a project manager for an automobile parts supplier and is sick of it. It's obvious just looking at him. When the next project is announced already at the final meeting for the last one, he leaves without a word and decides to change his life. He meets Anna, a film student, and lapses into the idea that she should shoot a documentary about his life. Maybe it will be easier for him to start a new life after first passing review over the old one?

Carla runs messages throughout a city periphery. She drives, eats, and sleeps in the car.

After the death of his parents, Heinrich reunites with his sister Susanne in the abandoned childhood home. But his childhood guilt floats through the silent rooms of the house, and the prospect for reconciliation is remote.

A new home, a promotion, a loving partner. Anna has everything she could wish for, and yet, the gradual inevitability of things begins to create a pressure within her that she can no longer bear. But where does Anna escape to when her life seems pretty much complete? Into housing complexes that swallow their residents like a beehive? Into labyrinthine furniture stores filled with endless room displays? Or into the life of a missing woman who looks just like her and works at an IKEA store?

The dress is too lavish and the toilet cubicle too small for the bride to fit in. The ballroom is jam-packed and the mood is alarmingly good. Something is about to burst: the groom’s delusion of grandeur? The pregnant belly of deaf Betti? Her step-father’s patience? Or the wine-filled bladder of his ex-wife?

During an ascent up the mountain Felix (17) realizes that his older brother Paul (24) is losing mobility and strength. Suppressing his doubts, Felix tries to find a way to communicate to his brother. While they walk, memories of their childhood are awakened and a deep fear about an uncertain future grows.

Anton gets confused when he visits Thea at home the first time. They recently had great sex. But now it seems weird that the flatmate Paula knows all about that night with Thea. What does she mean with "Geh Vau", he asks. "Fucking," answers Paula. When he's ready to head out for a concert of the feminist punkband "Schapka", Thea would prefer to stay at home with the handsome young man.

A complicated marriage: She has a tumor, he is gay, both of them are keeping it a secret. When their only daughter moves out, he is ready to come out. But that is not going to happen. He arranges a date for a bizarre role-play and she is spying on him, firmly believing that he is having an affair with a younger woman. The chase is on.

Based on Philippe Garbit's short story “Je la regarde dormir,” a woman is accused of a cruel crime by a man who claims to be her friend. After many sleepless hours, the boundaries between madness and reality begin to blur, and at her last supper the man becomes the judge of life and death.

On her ninth birthday, Nelly locks out her mother of their family home while she keeps posting Instagram stories that become more and more worrying.

Jan supports his best friend Lukas, a passionate swimmer who became blind after an accident. Jan feels responsible for Lukas’s blindness. When Lukas plans to move to Bilbao for an Erasmus program, Jan realizes how dependent he is on him. During a nighttime confrontation by the lake, Jan falls into the water and is saved by Lukas at the last moment. Jan understands that he must let Lukas go and face his own fears.

Tamim, a Syrian father in Vienna, actually just wants to return a lost wallet in the club. But what begins as a well-intentioned act plunges him into a chaos of misunderstandings and moral conflicts.

It is about a girl's everyday life at the end of her school days, trying to find a way into society and her own life.

A petty criminal couple with relationship problems rob a lonely man in his home. They take a liking to his middle-class lifestyle and decide to stay overnight, until they realize that their hostage would have taken his own life if they hadn't broken in. Suddenly, they find themselves facing each other, each desiring what breaks the other.