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682 articles available in total starting from 14/06/2002. Last article published on 14/08/2025.

Film Institute shells out €2m to eight feature-length projects

Of the 100 or so projects submitted, the Austrian Film Institute accepted 45 funding applications and allocated €3.16m (€2.35m in selective grants and €809,000 in automatic funding). Of this sum,...  

19/07/2011 | Funding | Austria

If the Seed Doesn’t Die too exhausting to satisfy

Serbian-born director Siniša Dragin’s third feature film If the Seed Doesn’t Die had premiered at Tokyo International Film Festival before winning the Audience Award at Rotterdam. Supported by the...  

14/06/2011 | Films | Romania/Serbia/Austria

Sehr and Noëlle bring Ludwig II back onto big screen

While Germany is about to celebrate (on June 13) the 125th anniversary of the mysterious and tragic death of Ludwig II of Bavaria, also known as "the fairy tale king", and sometimes "the mad...  

09/06/2011 | Production | Germany/Austria

When Breathing is hard

Actor-turned-director Karl Markovics’s debut feature Breathing, presented in the Directors' Fortnight, is a superb film whose main character, Roman (played by the incredible non-professional...  

21/05/2011 | Cannes 2011 | Directors' Fortnight/Austria

Michael: Suggesting the worst

Although this is his directorial debut in competition at the 64th Cannes Film Festival, Austrian director Markus Schleinzer has been a regular on the red carpet as Michael Hanneke’s casting...  

15/05/2011 | Cannes 2011 | Competition/Austria

Waltz re-teams with Tarantino

Viennese actor Christoph Waltz, who won Best Actor at Cannes 2009 for his wonderful performance in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, will re-team with the mischievous screenwriter-director...  

03/05/2011 | People | 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

Geyrhalter captures European zeitgeist in Abendland

Austrian documentarian Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s Abendland had its world premiere at the opening of the Diagonale, the Festival of Austrian Film in Graz (March 22-27). The fly-on-the-wall documentary...  

25/03/2011 | Films | Austria

Love according to Barylli in Barylli's Baked Beans

Although the spring sunshine is competing with movie theatres in Austria, Thimfilm has chosen this moment to launch romantic comedy Barylli's Baked Beans, written, directed and acted by the man of...  

25/03/2011 | Releases | Austria

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