Birgit Minichmayr

Sleeping with a Tiger is a hybrid film about the Austrian painter Maria Lassnig. A film about her struggle in the male dominated art world and the quest to find her own personal artistic way of expression in which she brings her inner pain on canvas. And of course a film about her great artistic success.

Rural policewoman Andrea wants to end her marriage and become a detective inspector in the city. After a birthday party, her drunken soon-to-be ex-husband runs out in front of her car. In a state of shock, Andrea commits a hit-and-run.

Martha and Betty have known each other for twenty years and they have decided to breakthrough. But while Martha realizes that her father has only faked his death wish in order to see the great love of his life again on Lake Maggiore, Betty mourns her stepfather Ernesto, who supposedly died years ago.

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.

The Polish woman Wanda, 35, looks after Joseph, 70, in his family villa by the lake. She is there for him around the clock and also helps his wife Elsa, 75. The youngest son Gregi, 28, likes her very much. The work is poorly paid, but Wanda needs the money for her own family in Poland. Since everyone lives under one roof, Wanda gets an intimate view of their family life. So intimate that Wanda unexpectedly becomes pregnant.

When everything in his life seems to be going wrong, downtrodden and alcohol-dependent Karl has a fateful encounter in Munich with Yu, a mysterious Japanese dancer from his father’s past. Unexpectedly, Yu begins to help Karl confront his demons (both literal and figurative) and begin to heal.

Oliver is a banker and portfolio manager and leads a life in the fast lane, which one day comes to an abrupt end, as he builds a self-inflicted accident on highway with 230 km / h and raced through a guardrail. When he wakes up in the hospital again, he faces a devastating diagnosis: paraplegia. Actually, a rehabilitation stay of several months is planned in the hospital, but Oliver soon falls on his head and ends up in a disabled shared flat with the name "Die Goldfische"

Um filme antológico na forma de longa-metragem de horror. Estes segmentos assustadores são recheados de personagens conhecidos como mitos, tradições e contos populares. Criadas para dar lógica aos medos mais sombrios da humanidade, essas histórias lançaram as bases para o que hoje conhecemos como gênero de terror.

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.

Ricky spent years behind bars after taking the rap for his brother Rafael and his buddy Latif after a failed robbery. Now, Latif wants to express gratitude by letting Ricky in on a coup that will bring lots of money. After some hesitation, Ricky agrees, and gets his brother Rafael on board. Everything runs smoothly, until police officer Diana turns up on the scene. A nerve-wracking cat and mouse game is set in motion. Director Özgür Yildirim’s most recent film offers insight into Frankfurt’s gangster world. As before in CHIKO – which also starred Moritz Bleibtreu – he portrays the daily life of the criminal underground scene in a large German city.

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.

It is a story about the Soviet worker Pyotr and the German engineer Hans, who came to the USSR before the war on a business trip. At a Soviet plant the German team works in cooperation with Russian specialists. Once Hans makes a mistake which causes the explosion of the furnace and human losses. Hans finds himself at the mercy of Pyotr, the only witness to his actions near the furnace. Pyotr also depends on Hans, because Pyotr’s very presence near the furnace entails accusation of subversive actions and a death sentence. Mutual suspicion gives way to silent sympathy and later friendship. They even look like each other, both have small children. Pyotr secretly leaves the town with his family but Hans feels loss rather that relief at the disappearance of the embarrassing witness.

Delving deep into the soul of one of Austria’s most infamous real-life convicts, Jack is a fascinating, unprejudiced look at the path to redemption and the obstacles that bar the way.

An aging renowned art history researcher falls in love with a younger woman who struggles and tries to cover his ongoing Alzheimer's's.

At the end of his life, Wilhelm Reich - psychiatrist and experimental scientist searching for the fundamentals of life - finds himself on trial, charged with deception. His dream of liberating human individuality makes him a dangerous opponent of an American system that is striving after 1945 for global hegemony, using all available means. Was it madness to believe in man's liberty or was Reich simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, and, being a holistic global thinker, accurately observing far-reaching socio-political linkages? Ten years after his mysterious death, his writings, once burnt by the US FDA, become an important source of inspiration for a '68 generation in revolt. Written by Novotny & Novotny

Niels e Maria, junto a seu filho Markus, se mudam para uma pequena cidade na Noruega para recuperar o casamento e a relação familiar. Mas uma tragédia pode dar forças para eles se manterem unidos e buscar a redenção.

Adele Spitzeder, an actress of medium talent, finds the role of her life as a dazzling financial genius, but in truth the operator of a gigantic pyramid scheme. With a brilliant appearance and empty promises, she serves the hopes and greed of her fellow human beings with virtuosity. With the help of a never-ending stream of money, she buys her way out of situations that would have landed others in prison long ago. Her enemies are just waiting for the pyramid to collapse and bury Adele - and countless small investors with her.

A short film by Maren Ade, using re-cut material from 'Everyone Else'.

1913. Em um vilarejo no norte da Alemanha vivem as crianças e adolescentes de um coral, dirigido por um professor primário. Um estranho acidente com o médico, cujo cavalo tropeça em um arame afiado, faz com que uma busca pelo responsável seja realizada.

Chris e Gitti estão em um aparente idílio amoroso durante as férias na Sardenha. Porém, em meio às brincadeiras, aos rituais íntimos e aos hábitos fúteis, esconde-se uma tensão. Cheia de entusiasmo, ela não teme expressar o amor que sente por Chris, enquanto ele é mais reservado em relação à exposição de sua vida pessoal e profissional, demonstrando certa insegurança. Numa tola tentativa de viver perigosamente, Chris começa a revelar seu gênio voluntarioso, querendo mostrar à namorada quem domina o relacionamento. Com isso, a confiança que ela depositava nele sofre um duro golpe. Gitti tenta se conformar com o novo comportamento de Chris, mas o que começara como uma experiência lúdica logo se transforma numa luta contra a própria personalidade. Enquanto ele se afirma como o mais forte da relação, ela começa a perder a cabeça.

Mais uma vez, algo aconteceu. Um homem pelo nome de Horvath desapareceu, e a única pista que leva ao restaurante Löschenkohl, uma hospedaria conhecida especializada em frango assado. O investigator Brenner vai tentar resolver o caso...

Finn é um famoso fotógrafo atormentado por visões mórbidas. Depois de quase morrer devido ao seu estilo de vida desenfreado, ele decide fazer uma pausa e ir para Palermo, na Sicília, mas seu mundo vira de cabeça para baixo. Salvo por uma mulher bela e misteriosa, ele acaba por confrontar a Morte.

Trudi é informada que seu marido Rudi tem uma doença terminal, e sugere que visitem seus filhos em Berlim - mas sem contar a verdade sobre seu estado de saúde a ninguém. Ao chegar, seus filhos, em meio aos afazeres, os tratam com indiferença. Quando seguem sua viagem, o inesperado acontece e Trudi morre. Rudi só então descobre que o grande sonho de Trudi sempre foi ir ao Japão, e decide então fazer a viagem em homenagem à esposa. O filme, além de tudo, é uma homenagem ao grande diretor japonês Yazujiro Ozu, tendo sido baseado em algumas de suas obras (Filho Único, Pai e Filha, e outros). Um olhar poético sobre o Japão, o Kabuki e o Hanami é o formador da atmosfera deste filme.

St. John’s Night is a traditional midsummer Latvian celebration where family and friends get together to build bonfires, drink and have a good time. According to a legend, on this night lovers and those who wish to fall in love can search the woods for the "magic fern".

A great Empire, once famous for its enlightened traditions, is taken over by a ruthless political establishment. Religious fundamentalists and national separatists are tearing at the fabric of its liberal society. Under the influence of his conservative advisors, the Emperor fails to initiate the reforms that could save the Empire from annihilation. One man alone can avert the cataclysm to come. The year is 1888 and the 600-year-old Empire of Austria-Hungary is at a cross-road of history. Crown-Prince Rudolf, son of fabled Empress Sisi, the most beautiful woman of her time, is the man with the vision and the ability to lead his Empire into the 20th century. Yet his enemies, the all-powerful Prime Minister first and foremost, scheme to isolate Rudolf from his father and from access to power. Against the backdrop of one of the most dangerous, exciting and colorful periods in history, at the dawn of the modern age...

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille nasceu com o olfacto mais apurado do mundo e encontrou a carreira certa para o usar ao tornar-se perfumista. Mas o que poderia ter sido uma história de sucesso toma contornos macabros quando a sua busca incessante para captar o aroma mais perfeito e fugaz o leva a cometer as maiores atrocidades.

Five former high school friends reunite for an evening of fun, remembrance and sadness in this Altmanesque portrait of female friendship. A look at how youthful idealism turns into adult pragmatism, and how one can fight such changes, from the director of Free Radicals.

A compulsive gambler is forced to take a chance with his own life

Em 1942, o jovem Traudl Junge tem o que parece ser a melhor profissão do mundo: ele é secretário de Hitler. Três anos depois, o império se resume a um abrigo subterrâneo e, de lá, Traudl narra os últimos dias da vida de do ditador.

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?

The film is based on the figure of the police inspector Simon Polt of the Austrian author Alfred Komarek.

18-year-old school boy Helmut falls in love with fellow pupil Britta. He starts working for a Peace movement to get to know Britta. Britta, however, suddenly moves to San Francisco to live with her father and whilst there, finds a new boyfriend. Helmut studies, literature and politics in his home town and have a relationship with another girl from his former school, now studying medicine at the same university but they break up after having an affair with her roommate. Helmut begins a lot of short affairs with different women but still searches for his first girl.

Austria in the last years of the monarchy: Wilhelm Kasda, Lieutenant of the Infantry, lives the life of a young officer. These include small, irrelevant affairs like those with Steffi. Steffi is a simple young woman. Kasda does not realize that her devotion is real love. After a night at the hotel, Kasda gives her a bill and disappears. A few years later, in June 1914, Kasda was visited by a former comrade, Lieutenant von Bogner. He had to resign years ago for gambling debts, is now married, works as a cashier in an office and has embezzled money.

One of the most spectacular and renowned conductors of the 1930s, Wilhelm Furtwangler's reputation rivaled that of Toscanini's. After the war, he was investigated as part of the Allies' de-Nazification programme. In the bombed-out Berlin of the immediate post-war period, the Allies slowly bring law and order to bear on an occupied Germany. An American major is given the Furtwangler file, and is told to find everything he can and to prosecute the man ruthlessly. Tough and hard-nosed, Major Steve Arnold sets out to investigate a world of which he knows nothing.

A portrait of a single day in the late summer of 1956, toward the end of Bertolt Brecht's life, as he prepares to leave his lakeside home, surrounded by the women who form his extended family.