Michael Riebl

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

Two rival children groups are trying to find a three postal robbers who kidnapped a young girl.

Sophie "inherits" her uncle's preserved whale and finds out that whoever sleeps in the whale's belly with her will be granted one wish, causing chaos and hatred in the village.

Paul and Erik, two introverted loosers lacking social contacts, both work in a smudgy kitchen of the cheap chickenburger fast food store "El Chicko". To pass time and monotony, Paul tells his partner time and again stories about a murderer killing women, of which Erik always wants to hear more and more. Eventually, Erik starts to believe that Paul is telling about himself.

The story of some young people who grew up in a working-class area in Zurich in the late 1950s. The plain living style of their educators is not on their wavelength. They find the occurences in the newly opened Jazz club much more tempting. Down there is what must not be up there: spontaneous lust for life. Jazz electrifies them all. And then there are the girls ...

Plachinger and Kirchhoff, the heroes of Franz Novotny's 1980 comedy "Exit - Do Not Panic" meet by chance after ten years and spend a night together in which they attempt to be as they were in the old days: anarchistic and orgiastic.

An Asiatic confrontation with a noddle.

Two crooks escape from jail and take refuge in a remote hotel. However, their plans soon start to go wrong, leading them to wonder whether they really are free or whether in fact they are already being roasted alive in the flames of hell.

In this highly symbolic political allegory, Averill is traveling through a troubled countryside amid rumors of war to visit his father. He reaches a train station in a city which is paralyzed by a transportation strike and is forced to take lodgings in a bizarre, unattractive town populated by seemingly malformed individuals. After a while, he begins to try to woo a much older woman, and symbolic images of entrapment, imprisonment and erotic enticement mark his adventures in this regard.

A telephone conversation between father and son.

Orhan, who is ten years old, comes to Vienna from a small Village in Anatolia. Armed with his grandfather's revolver, he intends to avenge his father, who was a "guest worker" and was killed in a car accident. On his quest for "vengeance", Orhan meets friends and enemies and finds himself in a totally strange world. Finally he realizes the absurdity of his plan and returns to his village.

Egon arrives. Rather, Egon arrives late. If he had arrived on time, the situation which had made his arrival unwelcome, would not have occured. He would have been welcomed and this farce would not have been able to take place...

Contemporary love story about the confrontation of French and Austrian culture.