Claus Benischke

The Maynards and their children lead an almost perfect billionaire family life. Amon is a passionate hunter, but doesn’t shoot animals, as the family's wealth allows them to live totally free from consequences.

Christmas – usually not the favourite holiday of the atheist Wanda, a surgeon and feminist mother of teenage Nina. And most certainly not in times of a pandemic.

Johannes has a comfortable life and stands to inherit the family-run hotel. Unfortunately, however, he is an inveterate people-pleaser and avoids conflict at any cost. His father’s last will and testament sparks a tragi-comic journey to sunny Greece – and the realisation that it is time to take control of his own life.

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.

Vice Lieutenant Eismayer is the most feared trainer and model macho in the Austrian Military and lives as a gay man in secret. When he falls in love with a young, openly gay soldier, his world gets turned upside down. Based on real events.

During the preparations for its 100th anniversary, the Chamber of Labor is accompanied and proves to be a unique contact point for the many people fighting for their rights.

Inspirada en una historia real de exorcismo. Johannes, un hombre con el corazón de un niño, vive aislado en una cabaña alpina con su madre. El día a día está regido por rezos y rituales. Pero, de repente, la modernidad se entromete en su mundo de naturaleza y alabanza divina. Un complejo turístico amenaza con envenenar su paraíso y despertar al demonio.

Una pareja que se enfrenta a problemas de fertilidad ve cómo su matrimonio se pone a prueba en unas vacaciones en un centro turístico de Cerdeña.

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

The story of a luckless address: Vienna, Schottenring 7. This was the site of Ringtheater were nearly four hundred people died in a fire in 1881. Where the emperor subsequently built the Sühnhaus ('the house of atonement') to make up for it and no-one wanted to live there.