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Browse 85 movies from Filmakademie Wien
The washing machine bites the dust: turning the humdrum life of a young couple upside down.
Mar 2020
Two lost souls in London. Connected through a poem in German and the question of how they will meet.
Oct 2021
Luisa returns to her parents' home when her father becomes bedridden. She's expected to help her mother deal with the drudgery of caring for him, but their relationship is tense and the physical contact with the man proves to be unpleasant for her. In quiet moments she remembers scenes from her childhood Long repressed and forgotten memories force their way back into the present, until a final realization brings a family secret to light.
Apr 2009
Ercan is fed up with clichés of migrant roles. Instead of playing a terrorist on television, the Turkish actor is trying to get a role as Hitler in a new movie.
May 2022
The reserved Julia has traveled to Vienna, especially to surprise her sister Johanna at her art performance. Johanna has rented a room for her feminist performance, hired two musicians and invited everyone she knows. However, the vernissage apparently turns into a miserably unsuccessful evening, which might bring the two siblings closer together again.
May 2023
Lost in thought in the midsummer heat, Georg suddenly has only one goal. To make his huge, overgrown garden beautiful again at the weekend. But as he spends his days alone in the house he once shared with his ex-wife Sieglinde, who comes to visit at the end of the weekend, he has to deal not only with the garden, but also with absurd visits, memories, nosy neighbours and himself.
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Vienna during Christmas time 2017. ION has read a curious article about Hitler, who might be found in Argentina, while his older half-brother Andrei seems to have other problems on his mind. Following the two Romanian half-brothers and their preparations for leaving the city, money is only one side of the coin.
Mar 2018
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.
Apr 2022
Georg is a writer hoping for his big breakthrough. When he meets the unemployed Alois, he recognizes in him the novel material he has been so desperately searching for. Alois has a strange habit: he entangles his fellow human beings in absurd situations seemingly without meaning. Georg decides to get to the bottom of Alois' behavior and gets caught up in a chain of such bizarre, embarrassing and threatening events that he soon finds himself in over his head.
Oct 2008
17-year-old Coco wants to become famous. She goes to each audition, but is rejected time and again. On her YouTube channel, she creates a fictional world in which everything is perfect and her self-confidence is based on likes and followers.
Jan 2017
After falling out with her mother, juvenile Sofia hitchhikes southwards in search of the father she never had.
May 2019
When the young and shy Louanne moves to Vienna, hungry for life, a kind of friendship, she has never known, develops with her confident flatmate Thaïs.
Jun 2024
Mathias is transgender. Although he is more than sure about his decision to live as a man, he still has to find his way in his new identity and especially in his new job. And also his relationship with his girlfriend seems to have changed due to the transition.
Mar 2017
Ingbert, the sock, applies for a position as a double bass player at the Vienna State Orchestra. Bad idea.
Jan 2020
Andi shares a deserted building with a group of fellow-squatters he considers his family. One day his sister turns up unexpectedly with her small son Levi, seeking refuge from her abusive boyfriend; she has nowhere else to turn. So Andi suddenly finds himself in the role of uncle, the squat is transformed into an alternative kindergarten, and the estranged pair become the siblings they once were.
Aug 2021
Young people on the telephone.
Jan 1997
On the 3rd of October a twenty-four-year-old student from Vienna kills his lover and chops up her corpse. Her torso is found in a dumpster, other body parts and the head are missing. There is no clue about the motive of the murder. A silent chronology of the events.
Jul 2016
Mr. Kliminov wakes up in a hospital where no one seems to treat him the right way.
Apr 2024
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.
Nov 2023
A teenager, Christina, loses her friends in the forest. Looking for them she finds the bodies of three drowned kids on the shore of a lagoon. On summer holiday, deep in the woods, three kids, cousins, are playing around a lake when they find a drowned young woman drifting in the water. Games, lies and rituals unfolding into a circular time in which death loses its ultimacy. What is real and what is a mirage? Who is dreaming and who is being dreamed?
Mar 2016