Karina Ressler

The club as a place of endless (im)possibilities. A man and a woman wait here together for 25 years for a mysterious, all-changing event to occur. From 1979 to 2004: from disco to techno. A love story and an obsession.

어느 날 앨리스는 아름다운데다 테라피 효능까지 있는 식물을 고안해낸다. 회사의 통제에도 불구하고 앨리스는 이 진홍색 꽃을 피우는 이종 식물을 아들 조에게 선물한다, 아들은 식물에게 ‘리틀 조’ 라는 별명을 지어주고 극진히 돌보는데…

가장 대중적인 권총으로 자리 잡은 글록. 미국과 중동 등 전 세계에 퍼진 이 권총의 영향력을 알아본다. 전례 없는 성공을 둘러싼 정치 역학부터 그 이면의 그림자까지. 판매자와 소유자를 두루 인터뷰하며 글록의 진면을 파헤친다.

Nick and Anna are off to Switzerland for six months. Nick, a chef, wants to collect recipes of local cuisine and Anna hopes to write a new book. The journey can also be good for their relationship, because Anna suspects that Nick had an affair with other woman. Meanwhile, Mischa will take care of their Viennese apartment.

Sin and Illy have a plan: on a Greek island they want to get 'clean' on their own. But the intention of the two girls fails already on the way to the airport. Finally Sin realizes she has to go the way out of heroin addiction all alone.

HANNA loves YANN and the lettres filmees that he sends her, short, poetic films recorded with an iPhone. Yann loves Hanna, but mistrusts her. He leaves her, but does not leave her alone. ...

Hedi is the new neighbor of Iva, who raises her daughter Sofia by herself. The two women start a relationship and Iva is desperately in love with Hedi. Suddenly Iva's father appears. Hedi feels strongly attracted to him. It seems that only one world exists for Hedi. Her own.

1811 년 시인 하인리히 폰 클레이스트의 자살을 기반으로 한 "로맨틱 코미디".

Five university students are required to write a paper on a Kafka short story. In a smoke cloud of inspiration, they take a road trip to film it instead.

는 도시와 농촌의 삶 사이에 놓인 긴장을 테마로 한 이야기이다. 확연하게 대비되는 환경에 놓인 두 자매가 영화의 주인공이다. 도시와 농촌, 부와 가난, 자유와 구속의 대비. 베를린에서 영화와 TV 배우로 남들이 부러워하는 인생을 사는 소냐는 일상에 공허함을 느끼고 늙은 아버지의 병간호를 하면서 시골에서 사는 언니 베레나를 찾는다. 한때 번성했으나 지금은 퇴락한 호텔 식당을 운영하는 베레나는 지적인 시골의사 안드레아와 불륜 관계이다. 소냐가 당도하면서 적막한 시골집에 작은 변화들이 생기기 시작하고, 자매들 사이의 긴장이 증폭된다. 소냐와 베레나는 외견상 상반된 인생을 살고 있지만, 그들 각자의 비밀을 가지고 있다는 점에서 한 통속인 인물들이다. 오스트리아를 대표하는 거장 괴츠 스필만은 헤어져 살아온 가족들의 단란한 재회 뒤에 놓인 서릿발 같은 대립을 파헤친다. 장애와 비밀을 내장한 구성원들 사이의 관계를 다룬 여느 가족드라마들처럼 는 가족들 간의 상처와 애증, 화해를 이야기한다. (2014년 15회 전주국제영화제/ 장병원)

Charo seems like a typical Berlin teenager. She's a student surrounded by good friends and has her eye on the coolest guy in school. But no one knows that Charo has been living in Germany illegally for years, not even her best friend Laura. Problems start to arise when Charo's mother is caught by the police and wants to take Charo back to Columbia. Charo now needs to trust Laura with her secret because it's the only way she'll be able to fight for her future in Germany.

휠체어에 갇힌 작은 여인… 그녀에게 일어나는 희망의 기적! 남들처럼 평범한 일상을 꿈꾸던 크리스틴. 전신마비로 휠체어에 묶여 항상 다른 사람의 손길이 필요하게 되자 그녀의 삶은 건조하고 무기력해진다. 답답한 일상을 벗어나고픈 그녀는 믿음에 대한 희망으로 가득 찬 사람들과 기적의 성지 루르드로 순례를 떠나고, 여행을 하는 동안 자신을 돌봐주는 자원봉사자 마리아를 보며 그녀를 부러워하게 된다. 어느 날, 꿈속에서 자신을 부르는 목소리를 들은 크리스틴! 조금씩 믿음이 자라기 시작한 그녀에게 기적의 순간이 찾아오는데…

Nadia is in her late 30s and begins a serious relationship with a teen named Pierre.

Centers on a group of weary Middle Eastern refugees who have made their way to Turkey to apply for European visas.

로버트와 수잔은 평온한 호숫가의 집에서 살고 있다. 알렉스와 타마라는 비엔나의 성매매업소에서 일한다. 그들의 삶은 알렉스의 무모한 은행 강도행각으로 인해 충돌하게 되고, 비극적인 죽음의 여파는 아무도 예측할 수 없는 파괴적인 결말로 이끈다 오스트리아의 도발적인 감독 괴츠 스필만의 최신작. "보복"은 서로 관련이 없어 보이는 네 사람의 삶이 어떻게 얽히고 영향을 주고 받는지를 보여준다. 비엔나에서 살고 있는 알렉스와 타마라는 성매매업소에서 일하고 있다. 로버트와 수잔나는 비엔나에서 몇 시간 거리의 한적한 시골에 살고 있다. 어느 날 알렉스는 자신이 저지른 무모한 강도행각 때문에 경찰 로버트와 대치하게 된다. 이 과정에서 타마라가 죽음을 맞게 되면서 네 사람의 운명은 돌이킬 수 없이 얽히게 된다. 스필만 감독은 분노와 복수, 속죄와 같은 감정을 억제된 연출을 통해서 담아낸다. 간결한 형식의 은 전통적인 의미에서의 해피엔딩은 아니지만 감독은 다음과 같이 표현하고 있다.“ 근본적으로는 내 영화에는 긍정이라는 빛이 반짝이고 있다. 인생은 결코 실수라고 할 수 없으며 어떤 삶이라도 모두 의미를 담고 있게 마련이다." (2008년 13회 부산국제영화제)

When the beautiful, efficient and successful Christine, 42, arrives at their summer beach home with her husband and teenage daughter, a young hitchhiker catches her eye. What follows is the story of a woman who frees herself, tears her life into pieces and puts it back together in a different order.

Johannes, a new assistant at the university, is asked to provide reports on an Algerian colleague - who is suspected of being a sleeper. He refuses, but the seed of doubt has been planted. A fragile friendship which is overshadowed by professional and emotional competition eventually leads to betrayal.

A deadly car crash sets off three parallel stories of women at crisis points, faltering behind the doors of the same, plain Vienna apartment block.

When Irene takes a position at a hotel deep in the woods of the Austrian Alps, she soon discovers the girl she replaced vanished without a trace. Is there a murderer on site, or are there even darker forces at work?

Ozren is raised in Vienna by his mother Silvija, who works as a prostitute, and his aunt and uncle. The film shows the demimonde of Vienna in the early 1990ies and deals with Ozren's finding out that his mother is not a waitress (as he was initially told) and with the way he copes with it.

After screwing up a money exchange a Viennese small-time crook accompanied by a Russian hostess hits the road to the East.

Evi, a young single mother, works as a seasonal waitress in a winter sports village. She is young and wants to live on the edge and get all the enjoyment she can out of life. When she drinks, Evi feels completely herself, free and inhibited. But her excesses reveal themselves to be the ticking of a time bomb.

Claudia makes Katrin to work for her provider for Claudia's material security and to leave the "shitty work outside". They are both prostitutes. Katrin learns that the price for being independent is high and goes with physical destruction.

Two young girls who live in a small town in Lower Austria dream of America, men and love. They live in Ternitz, they dream of Tennessee.

How to have children without having sex. Two sisters, one married to a man, the other married to God. One goes through artificial insemination and the other through spiritual insemination. Who will be successful in their attempt?

Garbage men. Garbage women. They swarm out daily to eliminate the excrement of the good life from the metropolitan circuits. The film documents the thorny path from a Viennese civil servant's comfortable life into the Privatopia of Greater Los Angeles. Our protagonists are five trash collectors. They live in Vienna, Genova, Amsterdam, New York and Los Angeles.

Three stories by three directors, three journeys into the world of teenagers and countercultures. The stories are interlaced with each other. Characters with a small performance in one story will play a major part in one of the other two stories so we will learn more about them, on the other hand central characters appear again in the periphery of one of the other stories. It is done in a casual way, comparable with the situation in daily life when two friends are running into each other by chance. Petra and Nicole in their shrill world of brightness. Loafing around, bumming and teasing guys.

A Dublin student writes a novel about a tavern keeper about the parishioners in his tavern (including the student), who in turn write novels featuring the innkeeper and the student, and other novel composers about other novelists.

Every year over a million tourists drive up the Grossglockner road, a major feat of engineering high up in the Alps, in order to gaze in amazement at the contrast between nature and technology, a fact that causes no less amazement to the people who live there. This documentary takes a look behind the picture-book facade of the mountain scenery around the alpine village of Heiligenblut, showing the encounter between the tourists and the people who keep the place going underneath all the holiday euphoria.

When Hitler's infamous "Anschluss" annexed Austria to Germany in 1938, the lives of 130,000 Jewish Austrians were placed at risk. Over the next three years, some 30,000 managed to emigrate to the United States, settling mainly in New York City. In Austrian filmmaker Egon Humer's brilliant and moving documentary EMIGRATION N.Y., twelve Viennese Jews -- seven women, five men -- recount their lives as children in Austria, as emigrants, as New Yorkers. Deceptively simple in style, the film gathers striking emotional power as its subjects (who include Amos Vogel, co-founder of the New York Film Festival) offer fresh and often surprising views on their experience of exile and assimilation.

A human being has no sensory organ for time. We perceive it, and what is it which we are perceiving thereby? To what extent does our contemporary society influence the way we experience it? Why has time become a dominating factor in the mordern world?

Industrial mass murder in the Third Reich, atrocities in other wars, cruelty perpetrated by "normal" citizens: "obedience" appears to be the key to this behavior.

A hot summer in Vienna: Kameni Grad - City of Stone. Four groups of young people, whose parents come from the former Yugoslavia: Alma and Mircla, Sascha and Dragan, Nenad and his friends, and Marina and her little brother Branko. A subculture which, full of confidence, integrates itself into the local community, yet without denying its origins.

Life in a residential community, founded 14 years ago by Annemarie and Fritz Pronegg for neglected, mistreated and abused children. The consequences of violence suffered are constantly present. Those affected tell of the effects and difficulties of living with the past.

Welcome to Los Angeless, hipsters, baddest of the bad cities, home of James Ellory, pre-eminent crime novelist of our generation. "All LA crime lives in me," says Ellroy, in this guided tour of the city that feeds his nightmares.

A flare shoots through the night. "Red brothers" against right-wing extremists; immigrant groups against right-wing "louts"; knives and tear-gas against baseball bats. "WADADENG, WADADENG, listen to my 9 mm go BANG" ... Rap and hip-hop in Vienna.

"Guilt and Memory" is a contemporary history about four former high-ranking Austrian Nazis. On the subject of "dealing with memory", Marcel Ophüls writes, "Memory cannot be artificially activated - neither by events nor by censorship ... It has to be a personal act of remembering."

Some people only become visible once they have disappeared. Deleted files. Their shadows become more real than they ever were themselves. A computer thriller.

Some people only become visible once they have disappeared. Deleted files. Their shadows become more real than they ever were themselves. A computer thriller.

The Soviet Union is the Soviet Union. There's no way out. What's needed is an iron fist, a Stalin, a Hitler or whoever: the rule of an iron fist is certainly what's needed now. A journey into the ravaged landscape of the soul of Russian youth, an intimate study of the human factor in the social catastrophe.

The Loiblpass is situated in the mountains between Austria and Yugoslavia: 12km from the village of Neumarktl and 10km from Ferlach in Carinthia. Between 1943 and 1945, political prisoners from the Mauthausen concentration camp drove a tunnel into the mountains at an altitude of 1200m. To this day, two people have been linked by this tunnel: Janko Tisler was an engineer in charge of the building site in 1944; today he lives in Krize, south of the tunnel. Dr. Sigbert Ramsauer, the SS doctor of the camp at the site then, at the age of 80 still practises in Klagenfurt. Janko Tisler fights against forgetting, Dr. Ramsauer wishes he were forgotten. The history of the tunnel has become theirs as well.

Reality in Mozambique resembles an unreal nightmare: South Africa refuses to accept the autonomy and independence of this country. More often than not, children are the victims of this situation. Not because they are killed but because they are made into instruments of death. Children in Mozambique are abducted by the Contras and forced to act as murderers of their own people. Their traumatic experiences (abduction, torture, being trained to kill, flight or liberation) and the efforts of the Mozambique government to reintegrate them into society form the basis of this film.

Documentary about a small town in Austria.

Freyja, who is twenty-seven, comes to the capital from a provincial village. Freyja is commissioned to do research for a film about Margareta Glas-Larsson (78) and Emil Ostermann (93). The encounter with these people who were both persecuted during the National-Socialist period - Emil was able to escape, Margareta was deported to Auschwitz - causes Freyja to delve into her own past - a confrontation with life and death.

When the busses left, the nurse said to the children, 'Today you have to pray a lot, because today you go up the chimney and meet the good Lord.' The children of the area knew these vehicles and said, 'Look, there is another one of these killer busses.' And they said to one another, ' You are not very clever, you, too, are going to end up in the oven in Hartheim, you, too, will be hung up in the chimney.' Hartheim Castle near Linz was one of several places of destruction of 'unworthy life' within the framework of the euthanasia program of National Socialism. Over 30,000 mentally or physically handicapped, psychiatric patients and inmates of concentration camps were gassed in Hartheim between 1940 and 1945. Today Hartheim Castle is rented and inhabited. In a place where 40 years ago thousands if lives were destroyed by industrial methods, today life asserts itself in the trite daily function of living. The documentation is about Hartheim Castle, in the past and in the present.

Eva, a successful publicity executive, has weight problems. In spite of diets and starvation cures she is overcome frequently by attacks of compulsive eating so that all resolutions and efforts to reduce weight are of no avail. She becomes more and more frustrated. Her new boyfriend Thomas does his best to pep her up but it doesn't help her self esteem. Finally, after she ditches her date with Thomas because she can't find the right dress to wear, she flies into a rage and -in an act of self-liberation- throws her clothes and scale through a closed window.

Fragmented stories about the big city, loneliness and the need to communicate.

Story of a woman during the Russian Revolution.

A teacher takes a job at an elite school and forms a strong bond with five students — a relationship that eventually takes a dangerous turn.