Klemens Hufnagl

Beate is an ambitious executive working at Europa, a mysterious corporation looking to expand into the Balkans region. Seemingly promoting philanthropy and investment in underdeveloped areas, Europa actually needs to buy off lands from locals in a remote valley in Southern Albania using Beate as the main negotiator for the ambiguous mission. But things don’t go as planned when she is challenged by Jetnor, a stubborn and spiritual farmer who refuses to leave the land of his ancestors.

How can cinema engage with complicity in crimes against humanity, extreme violence and state terror without conniving in it? De Facto finds answers to this question via two actors, a precisely compiled collage of texts and a deliberately reduced setting.

Para alejarse de los tensiones de la compañía de publicidad que ambos dirigen, una pareja franco-alemana se marcha con sus hijos a un pueblo costero para disfrutar de unos días de vacaciones. Sin embargo, lo que iba a ser un retiro idílico se convierte en pesadilla cuando un ladrón entra en su casa. Nina, la mujer, es la única testigo de lo sucedido. Aunque al principio la situación provoca que la familia se una, con el paso de los días crece el resquemor entre la pareja, lo que les lleva lentamente a perder la confianza el uno en el otro.

Las expectativas iniciales sobre Elias son altas. Es el hijo del agricultor más rico del valle de Zillertal y se espera que pronto se haga cargo de las distintas propiedades de la familia. Pero cuanto más se esfuerza el joven de 18 años por estar a la altura de las esperanzas depositadas en él, más sufre. Todo cambia cuando se traslada a las montañas. Elías no tarda en instalarse en la naturaleza y la soledad, desarrollando una estrecha relación con el mundo natural.

In a remote, abandoned industrial site near a centuries-old ore mine in the Austrian Alps, a self-taught mechanic runs a business exporting used cars to his native Nigeria. As he pursues his lonely day-to-day activities with wondrous serenity, past, present and future begin to overlap, and memories of a lost friendship resurface against the backdrop of a mysterious promise of everlasting resources.

La zona se conoce como “la guarida del diablo”... solo que el monstruo que la habita no es otro que Mina, una adolescente que convierte en su víctima a cualquiera que se acerque. La llegada de Alex, un chico ciego que acarrea sus propios traumas, despertará en Mina un sentimiento que creía olvidado, el de la empatía. Como Déjame entrar, The Dark explora la tumultuosa época de la adolescencia a partir del terror.

La zona se conoce como “la guarida del diablo”... solo que el monstruo que la habita no es otro que Mina, una adolescente que convierte en su víctima a cualquiera que se acerque. La llegada de Alex, un chico ciego que acarrea sus propios traumas, despertará en Mina un sentimiento que creía olvidado, el de la empatía. Como Déjame entrar, The Dark explora la tumultuosa época de la adolescencia a partir del terror.

A personal film about grief and farewell, about serenity and arrival as well as reunion and retrieval.

A punto de saldar sus deudas, una trabajadora sexual nigeriana en Austria capacita a una novata reticente y evalua los riesgos de tomar un atajo hacia la libertad.

There have been countless tributes made to the Lumière Brothers´ Workers Leaving the Factory since it was first exhibited in 1895, but few have been as technically ambitious, aesthetically assaultive or conceptually compelling as Sebastian Brameshuber´s In, Over & Out.

Soft boys by day, kings by night. The film follows a group of young Bulgarian Roma who come to Vienna looking for freedom and a quick buck. They sell their bodies as if that's all they had. What comforts them, so far from home, is the feeling of being together. But the nights are long and unpredictable.

A drama centered on an 11-year-old Chechnyan refugee living in Vienna whose life is thrown into disarray when a friend of his deceased father materializes.

Documentary about young people in a small town in Austria.

A lonely young monster with deadly black eyes encounters a kidnapped and abused young boy whose eyes have been sewn shut.

Communal property, free sexuality, dissolution of the nuclear family - these were the basic principles of the Friedrichshof, the largest commune in Europe founded by the Viennese Actionist Otto Muehl in the 1970's. Because of these principles Paul-Julien Robert, who was born into this commune, for a long time didn't know who was his biological father.

The rising city of Shanghai is a place of contradictions. In the heat of the battle for being the most progressive city of the world, many are left behind. No construction without deconstruction. The movie shows the social, economic and visual antagonisms of this vibrant city in a rhythmic and playful way. Shanghai is the engine that drives this experimental and musical documentary to a visual collision course.

The rising city of Shanghai is a place of contradictions. In the heat of the battle for being the most progressive city of the world, many are left behind. No construction without deconstruction. The movie shows the social, economic and visual antagonisms of this vibrant city in a rhythmic and playful way. Shanghai is the engine that drives this experimental and musical documentary to a visual collision course.

The rising city of Shanghai is a place of contradictions. In the heat of the battle for being the most progressive city of the world, many are left behind. No construction without deconstruction. The movie shows the social, economic and visual antagonisms of this vibrant city in a rhythmic and playful way. Shanghai is the engine that drives this experimental and musical documentary to a visual collision course.