Thomas W. Kiennast

The story of Empress Elisabeth of Austria told from the point of view of her lady-in-waiting, Irma Sztáray. Far from the kitschy “Sissi” cliché, she portrays a woman who, for years without her husband, surrounded only by women, ventured on journeys throughout Europe, mastered six languages, practiced high-performance sports and did not fit at all into the tight corset of the Viennese court.

O remake da obra homônima de Stefan Zweig, Schachnovelle (1960). Advogado Dr. Josef Bartok é sequestrado pelos nacional-socialistas para que possam se apossar da grande fortuna que administra. Quando Bartok permanece em silêncio, os nazistas o prendem e o deixam vegetar sem contato ou distração. Quando Bartok está à beira de ser mentalmente quebrado, se depara com um livro em que os movimentos das partidas de xadrez foram registrados em um ardil. Por falta de alternativas, ele internaliza esses jogos. Anos depois, quando ele conhece o atual campeão mundial de xadrez em um navio, a insanidade da prisão toma conta.

Two men, two lives, a fateful encounter: Hagen suffers from irregular phases of sleep in which he cannot decide between dream and reality. When his frustrated wife cheats on him with the small-time criminal Niko a series of disturbing events is set in motion and the lives of both men will never be the same.

In the life of TV presenter Lisa, everything revolves around her talk show, celebrities and the ratings. There is just as little room for love as there is for her mother Maria. When the 66-year-old loses her memory after a fall in her apartment and wakes up in the hospital, she can only remember that she has never been to New York and sets off immediately. Lisa goes in search of Maria with her makeup artist Fred. She struck gold on a cruise ship that was just leaving for New York. As stowaways, the three have no choice but to earn the passage. While Fred is hired as an assistant by the Greek on-board magician Costa, Lisa and Maria have to work in room service. The crossing soon takes surprising turns for mother and daughter: Maria falls in love with the charming dancer Otto, who supposedly knows her from before, and Lisa takes a liking to the widowed statistician Axel Staudach, who is traveling with his son Florian.

1981, Quiberon, uma pequena cidade na costa de Bretanha, na França. Hilde Fritsch chega para visitar a uma velha amiga, que foi morar em um hotel com spa para fugir das pressões diárias da sua vida.

In 1477 Charles the Bold dies, his only child is a girl which cannot rule without a husband. Meanwhile in Austria, Emperor Frederick III and his antagonist Louis XI France battle over said marriage prospects, battles ensue, tragedy falls.

O menino Tom, de onze anos de idade, vive sonhando de olhos abertos e tem medo de um monte de coisas, como a adega escura e úmida que fica sob o apartamento onde mora. A vida de Tom muda para sempre quando ele descobre um fantasma chamado Hugo se escondendo justamente na adega. O simpático fantasminha está sendo perseguido por um velho fantasma de gelo que quer espalhar um inverno ártico sobre toda a cidade. Tom e Hugo se unem a Hetty, uma caçadora de fantasmas, para derrotar o vilão.

A paz de uma cidade pequena é totalmente abalada quando um corpo é encontrado em uma mina abandonada. Família, amigos e vizinhos são todos suspeitos.

Áustria, 1875. Greider é um americano de ascendência austríaca que aparece em uma vila remota nas montanhas, lar de seus ancestrais por gerações. Os moradores oferecem abrigo ao estranho em troca de um generoso pagamento. Porém, eles não suspeitam que o homem sabe de um segredo guardado pela comunidade e está lá para buscar vingança.

Áustria, 1875. Greider é um americano de ascendência austríaca que aparece em uma vila remota nas montanhas, lar de seus ancestrais por gerações. Os moradores oferecem abrigo ao estranho em troca de um generoso pagamento. Porém, eles não suspeitam que o homem sabe de um segredo guardado pela comunidade e está lá para buscar vingança.

A marriage couple find their daughter drowned in the pool house. At the hospital, the doctor refuses to give up and holds tightly to a remote hope of saving the girl.

Think of a really nice person, a friend of yours, someone who could never hurt a fly. Imagine finding out that he is supposed to have killed someone. You're told that he has shot a person in a bar, for no obvious reason. He has already confessed. He says the murder was planned. He expects a life sentence. He even longs for it. He wants to pay for his crime. The psychiatrist cannot see any mental illness. People around him don't think him to be evil. They like him. They want to help him and protect him from himself. And they all ask the same question: Why....?

Written by Jon Reeves. Wordless story about a man who awakes in his bed wearing his clothes (including a check vest). He rises, washes his face, combs his hair, and heads for work across the street at a copy shop. He inadvertently makes a photocopy of his hand, and then the machine beings turning out copies of photographs of himself, the street outside, and his apartment. He unplugs the copier and heads home. He repeats the scene we saw earlier. Copies of himself emerge from bed; baffled, he watches them go to work. Soon, it seems, he's part of a society in which everyone looks like him and wears check vest. Can he get things back to normal?

A documentary about the wondrous passion of Carmen Martinek, who takes movie theaters as her lovers.Carmen does a little of everything at Vienna's Schikaneder cinema: She cleans and caresses it, and runs the projector. She strokes its seats and even sleeps there after long nights at the bar. It is, she admits, just like being with a person you couldnŽt live without. Anja Salomonowitz made a quiet little film about Carmen, observing her as she moves through the empty theater, as she puts in only brief appearances at home and immediately returns to the base station. After being forced to watch as her last theater was transformed into a supermarket, Carmen considers movie theaters to be erotic but also endangered environments.