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Festivals / Austria


79 articles available in total starting from 19/07/2002. Last article published on 23/04/2018.

Viennale bookended by Le Havre and The Ides of March

As every year since its creation in 1960 by a group of critics, Austria’s non-competitive major international festival, named Viennale two years later, will once again bring the capital to life....  

20/10/2011 | Festivals | Austria

8th Crossing Europe gets underway

Linz is hosting the 8th Crossing Europe Festival (April 12-17), which kicks off today. The week-long annual event, generously backed by the European Union’s MEDIA Programme, turns the city into...  

12/04/2011 | Festivals | Austria

The Fatherless sweeps the Diagonale

Marie Kreutz’s The Fatherless, which premiered in the Berlinale Panorama sidebar, won Best Austrian Feature Film, Best Actor (Johannes Krisch), Best Actress (Marion Mitterhammer) and Best...  

28/03/2011 | Festivals | Austria

Diagonale gets more interactive

As every year since 1998, the pretty Austrian city of Graz is marking the return of spring by becoming the capital of national cinema for one week with the festival Diagonale (March 22-27). Headed...  

21/03/2011 | Festivals | Austria

Viennale unveils prize-winners and attendance figures

The Viennale 2010 (October 21-November 3) closed with the Vienna Film Prize for Best Narrative Feature going to Marvin Kren’s German zombie flick Rammbock. The jury praised this "unconventional...  

04/11/2010 | Festivals | Austria

Viennale kicks off

Today marks the opening of the Austrian capital’s major annual film festival, the Viennale (October 21-November 3). It will present 84 narrative features, 60 documentaries, 54 shorts and a...  

21/10/2010 | Festivals | Austria

The Blacks wins Crossing Europe in Linz

Croatian film The Blacks by Zvonimir Juric and Goran Devic won the main prize at Crossing Europe Film Festival in Linz (Apr 20-25), worth €10,000. This adds to the film’s string of awards, which...  

26/04/2010 | Festivals | Austria

Ten titles in competition at Crossing Europe

The seventh edition of the Crossing Europe Film Festival kicks off April 20 in Linz, Austria with four opening films: Jasmila Žbanić's On the Path and Alexei Popogrebsky's How I Ended This Summer,...  

13/04/2010 | Festivals | Austria

Lourdes major winner at spectacular Viennale

The 2009 Viennale (October 22-November 4), described by its director, Hans Hurch, as "one of the most beautiful and successful editions we have ever held", drew to a miraculous close, with the...  

09/11/2009 | Festivals | Austria

Vibrant opening for colourful Viennale

In the Austrian capital this evening, the Viennale (October 22-November 4) will kick off with a screening of Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel’s Italian/Austrian co-production La Pivellina. The film,...  

22/10/2009 | Festivals | Austria

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