Bady Minck

It tells the story of the Austrian author Ingeborg Bachmann and her life in Berlin, Zurich and Rome, her relationship with Frisch, her trip to Egypt and her radical texts and readings.

En la primavera de 1945, un tren que deporta a cientos de prisioneros judíos queda varado cerca de una pequeña aldea alemana ocupada por el Ejército Rojo. Condenados el uno al otro y en un contexto de profunda desconfianza, desesperación y venganza, surge una inesperada amistad entre la francotiradora rusa Vera, la pueblerina Winnie y la judía-holandesa Simone.

Berlín, 1942. Cioma Schönhaus es un joven judío de 21 años que se ha propuesto que nadie, ni siquiera los nazis, le quite su entusiasmo por la vida. Para escapar de la deportación, Cioma utiliza la identidad de un oficial de la marina, descubriendo así que tiene un talento oculto para falsificar no sólo pasaportes y documentos, sino también su propia identidad.

In the middle of a midlife crisis, Sacha leaves his girlfriend and moves into his grandparents' Airbnb. There he meets Marjan, a married Iranian woman. The involuntary encounter becomes a moment of new possibilities.

Cuando un exprisionero de la Primera Guerra Mundial vuelve a casa y se encuentra con que sus camaradas han sido brutalmente asesinados, está decidido a conseguir que se haga justicia con el asesino en serie.

Cuando un exprisionero de la Primera Guerra Mundial vuelve a casa y se encuentra con que sus camaradas han sido brutalmente asesinados, está decidido a conseguir que se haga justicia con el asesino en serie.

En el Irán actual, Maryam una joven de 22 años, es sentenciada a muerte tras matar por accidente a su marido, Nasser, de 65. La única persona que puede salvarla es Mona, la hija de Nasser. Para ello, solo tiene que acudir a un conocido programa de televisión y perdonar en directo a Maryam. Pero cuesta perdonar cuando ambas se ven obligadas a revivir el pasado.

In early 18th century an African slave boy is chosen by a European Comtesse to be baptized and educated. Reaching adulthood, Angelo achieves prominence and soon becomes the Viennese court mascot until he decides to secretly marry a white woman.

The Happiness Machine is a cinematic performance comprised of animated films, musical compositions and testimonials. Ten women filmmakers, ten women composers and ten musicians present Christian Felber's Common Good Economy for discussion.

Based on the novella by Henry James Beast in the Jungle depicts the enigmatic love story of John Marcher and May Bartram. Their duet around an omnious secret is captured in a style both physical and poetic. Set in a remote countryside mansion the story stretches over a century, spiraling from the Jamesian late 19th century to the global present.

Based on the novella by Henry James Beast in the Jungle depicts the enigmatic love story of John Marcher and May Bartram. Their duet around an omnious secret is captured in a style both physical and poetic. Set in a remote countryside mansion the story stretches over a century, spiraling from the Jamesian late 19th century to the global present.

The Dung Beetle is late, the Parasite is asleep and Mrs Larva is more interested in her knitting than the director’s instructions. It’s clear: this amateur theatre company has a long way to go before they can perform their version of The Insect Play, a famous satirical work from 1922 by the brothers Karel and Josef Čapek which features insects with decidedly human traits: greed, egocentrism, jealousy.

When the ambitious Philip takes over the running of the family business from his father, he finds himself confronted by the mysterious reappearance of his dead ancestors. In the course of a long night, during which there is a murder, an illicit love affair and a game with false identities, Philip uncovers a closely guarded family secret.

Viena, Austria, 1910. El joven pintor Egon Schiele es un artista en alza, provocador y libre, cuya obra, caracterizada por el erotismo, escandaliza tanto como fascina a los amantes del arte.

Viena, Austria, 1910. El joven pintor Egon Schiele es un artista en alza, provocador y libre, cuya obra, caracterizada por el erotismo, escandaliza tanto como fascina a los amantes del arte.

John Malkovich es el protagonista de la única película que captura el mito del mayor seductor de todos los tiempos, Casanova. Basada en La historia de mi vida de Giacomo Casanova, con arias de W.A. Mozart y Lorenzo da Ponte. Su historia es narrada tanto a través de la ficción como con interpretaciones teatrales que desvelan el relato de sus aventuras, pasiones y, sobre todo, su miedo a la muerte.

Gira en torno a la figura de la filósofa judío-alemana Hannah Arendt, que trabajó como reportera cubriendo el juicio a Adolf Eichmann, el nazi que organizó el genocidio contra los judíos. (FILMAFFINITY)

Documentary about Austrian city Judenburg and its art scene.

Twenty-eight well-known filmmakers living and working in Austria were invited by WIENER MOZARTJAHR 2006, to produce associative miniatures on Mozart. Requirement: they had to be one-minute artistic short films. The directors come from a whole range of different backgrounds, ranging from animated, experimental and short film to documentaries and feature films. The result is a multi-facetted sampler of diverse formal and contextual positions with regard to Mozart’s person and his influence on today’s society, art and culture. The contributions run the gamut from experimental-conceptual statements through socio-critical and documentary observations to pithy short feature films.

No other adjective fits this little and delicious essay on Alpine landscapes and tourists that rest thereabout from the year‘s commotion. Bady Minck works with disposable material — old pictures and postcards — and builds with it a monument to touristic kitsch, using all digital technology available as if it were a rejuvenating system for memories. The result is hypnotic and absurdly beautiful, at the same time as it reveals to us that towns and cities also have a soul. (Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente 04/04) This film takes us on a time-travel using images of an iconic mountain found on postcards. The historic imprint of political realities and human fates are rendered visible onto the idealized landscapes. The post cards where written by travellers who witnessed the same place at different times.

Bits of found film and different types of animation illustrate a classic chase scene scenario: A woman is abducted and a man comes to her rescue, but during their escape they find themselves in the enemy's secret headquarters.

A landscape in which everything moves is afflicted with a figure which is in itself static, but which moves - a kind of mechanic man? In Mécanomagie both the borders of perception and (natural) laws are infringed so that something new may emerge: nature as a boundless state of ecstasy!

A landscape in which everything moves is afflicted with a figure which is in itself static, but which moves - a kind of mechanic man? In Mécanomagie both the borders of perception and (natural) laws are infringed so that something new may emerge: nature as a boundless state of ecstasy!

The story of an at first unsuccessful painter whose bitter struggle within the confines of his artistic works is traced from his studio to the interior of his brain.

On the 28th of October 1884 Daniel Paul Schreber, candidate of the National Liberal Party in Chemnitz, suffered a heavy defeat at the elections of the German Reichstag. He was taken up in the mental clinic of the Leipzig University soon afterwards. To his rehabilition he wrote an extensive piece of work, "Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken" (Memoirs of My Nervous Illness), which was published in 1903 and led to his temporary dismissal. Hereby Schreber became the most quoted psychiatric patient in scientific literature. The third part was realized by Peter Tscherkassy based on a concept by Ernst Schmidt Jr.

A pyramid, by no means static, is instead brought to ever-increasing movement by the use of camera motion, cuts and fades. The cinematic illusion jumbles the individual elements and unites them in a symbolic sketch of Adolf Loos' dynamic thought processes. A High Speed Journey through the spinal cord of this revolutionary architect.

A pyramid, by no means static, is instead brought to ever-increasing movement by the use of camera motion, cuts and fades. The cinematic illusion jumbles the individual elements and unites them in a symbolic sketch of Adolf Loos' dynamic thought processes. A High Speed Journey through the spinal cord of this revolutionary architect.

Romeo and Juliet in the microcosm of the human body... Forbidden love between the young Bacterium Micromeo and Antibody-girl Globia threatens the harmony of the immune system, leading to war between ambitious leaders, and finally awakening a genetic monster that is ready to exterminate them all. "Love is stronger than dirt!"