Andrea Wagner

An environmental spy infiltrates the global syndicate for illegal timber trading. With the aid of a hidden camera he documents the chain of illegal activities, from harvesting of the wood to the marketing of “washed” products in supermarkets. This turns out to be an excellent motor for political change.

Stories about citizens of a big city who encounter a variety of fates as a result of their difficulties in communicating with each other.

지하실에서 비밀스러운 취미를 즐기는 다양한 인물들의 행태를 기록한 이 영화는 비밀 취미 또는 기벽에 대한 인류학적인 보고서이다. 불편함을 견디며 화면을 응시하노라면, 어느 순간 우리 자신의 얼굴과 마주하게 된다.

Blond, half-long hair floats in a seepage pond. A well-to-do lady calls the police, and departmental inspector Franzi fishes out a scalp.

절도 혐의로 구속되어 실형을 선고 받은 ‘요한 레텐베르거’. 그는 교도소에 수감된 후 오로지 달리는 것에만 집착한다. 그러던 중 가석방으로 풀려난 ‘레텐베르거’는 가석방 담당관의 구직권고를 무시한 채 마라톤 대회 출전을 위한 연습에만 열중한다. 오스트리아 빈에서 열린 국제 마라톤 선수권대회에 무명의 선수로 출전한 그는 대회 우승을 거머쥐는 기적을 만들어 낸다. 그 후, 언론의 집중적인 조명을 받게 되지만 그에게는 아무도 모르는 비밀이 있다. 출소 후 줄곧 도심의 은행을 돌며 은행강도 행각을 이어왔던 것. 혼자 짧은 시간에 은행을 턴 후 감쪽같이 사라져 버리는 그의 은행강도 행각은 이내 사회적 이슈가 된다. 그의 이러한 완벽한 이중 생활은 아주 우연한 사건으로 인해 발각될 위기에 처하는데...

Three loser-type ex-students who earn too little money and don´t get laid as much as they want, try to change that by producing a home made porn movie starring themselves. They loan money from a pimp and begin casting the girls. When filming starts they find out that sex in front of the camera is hard work. Also you should know how to work a video camera. Frustration, relationship problems and cabin fever culminate in a dope induced garden orgy. But is it a film?

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

베니스 영화제 심사위원 대상 수상. 비엔나 외곽의 한 시골마을을 무대삼아 스트레스에 가득 찬 세일즈맨, 자신을 학대하는 남자를 떨치지 못하는 노년의 여성, 반쯤 미친 히치하이커, 사실상 부부관계가 실종된 중년 부부 등 여러 인물들이 펼치는 일그러진 삶의 이어달리기. 보다 적나라하게 난교파티, 사도마조히스트적 성행위가 거침없이 등장하기도 한다.

Megacities is a documentary about the slums of five different metropolitan cities.

Thomas, a student drop-out, keeps his head above water with a life of petty crime. Passing himself off once again as a ticket inspector on a tram to extract money from fare-dodgers, he is confronted by Erich, a genuine inspector, or so it seems... However, Erich won his inspector's identity badge at cards. The two begin to meet regularly. Thomas doesn't realise until too late that he is to play a major role in Erich's long-planned coup. The well thought out plan succeeds. Unfortunately, however, Erich has failed to consider how he can convert his booty - a lorry load of valuable carpets - into hard cash. Their problems are just beginning...

Humourous interpretation of the poems and writings of Soviet dadaist Daniil Charms. These are organized into a sequence, suggesting a storyline, about a poor Russian poet who lives in Vienna, falls in love and has several bizarre adventures.

Herbert lives a rather simple life, left to his own devices. He works as a projectionist in a shabby Viennese movie theater and lives alone with his red nameless cat in the free caretaker's apartment of a somewhat run-down apartment building. Now and then he visits his mother in a nursing home, meets with an old friend of his father, or comes to meetings of a savings club. Saving money is pretty much the center of his life because he has a dream. He wants to emigrate to the U.S. to buy his own movie theater and to reunite with his long-lost father. But when Rita, a young student, moves into the apartment building things in his life are changed completely.

Set within a Viennese apartment block, this affectionate Austrian comedy makes fun of the strange habits of the famed city's residents. The building is located in a middle-class area and has residents from many age groups and walks of life. Many of the tenants are much older, but there are also a few children about. In one apartment lives a large group of Polish construction workers, while a Yugoslavian woman and her huge family attempt to survive in their tiny flat. The episodic story of the lives of these and other tenants is framed by a visit from a civil servant from the Office of Statistics.

A family has the death of a pregnant daughter on its conscience. Their hollow understanding of tradition leads them to insist on revenge by the sword, and so the girl's boyfriend must die.

A staged TV portrait of the Austrian cartoonist Gerhard Haderer; and first collaboration with Maria Hofstätter.

A film about ignorance, intolerance and the lack of responsibility in people. A political film about human kindness, which in many of the so-called "incidents on the border" has been sadly missing.

Two women in two different countries leading different lives. One lives in Austria, one in Yugoslavia, yet their lives become strangely entangled for a moment in time. What if you wake up in somebody else's head and the city around you isn't the one you used to know?

A film about news, life and death. Before the media became so prevalent, we were concerned about our immediate neighborhood. At the end of the day, news was the subject of our conversations, but now it's possible to converse with someone at the other end of the globe. We do it all the time. It's simple. The world has become one big neighborhood. Now Headline News has replaced the back fence. That's the news service of the eigthies. It's a new idea and a new approach.

A film about news, life and death. Before the media became so prevalent, we were concerned about our immediate neighborhood. At the end of the day, news was the subject of our conversations, but now it's possible to converse with someone at the other end of the globe. We do it all the time. It's simple. The world has become one big neighborhood. Now Headline News has replaced the back fence. That's the news service of the eigthies. It's a new idea and a new approach.

A sketch: Observation of everyday life of people and situations in Vienna. "Visual art is an excellent way of observation in our culture. The everyday situations are seen briefly, continously but rarely as perceived and consciously experienced." (Michael Kreihsl)