Gerald Votava

Max goes to the sauna. With that, he doesn’t just open the door to a steam room, but also to an eccentrically askew parallel world.

Puppets! Pixels! Anime! Live action! Stock footage! Lumpennerd Johannes Grenzfurthner gives an ideotaining cinematic revue about important political concepts. Everyone is talking about freedom! Privacy! Identity! Resistance! The Market! The Left! But, yikes, Johannes can't tolerate ignorant and topically abusive comments on the "Internet" anymore! Supported by writer Ishan Raval, in this film, Johannes explains, re-evaluates, and sometimes sacrifices political golden calves of discourse. Not to be used with false consciousness or silicone-based lubricant.

Ранняя весна 1945-го года, небогатый район Вены. Близок конец войны и связанная с ним пора надежд. Семья менее чем скромного достатка: дедушка-часовщик, бабушка-домохозяйка, папа — раненый солдат немецкого вермахта, а потом и дезертир, мама и сестра. Перенеся невзгоды войны, им предстоит пережить конец Третьего рейха и освобождение Австрии советскими солдатами, видевшими в них врагов.

Андреа и Стефан живут тихо и счастливо. В красивом старинном домике, что затерялся среди виноградников в одном из предместий Вены, обитают они вместе со своим любимым котом Моисеем. Парни работают в одном оркестре, у них много прекрасных друзей. Казалось бы, всё складывается как нельзя лучше. Но внезапная вспышка гнева одного из партнёров разрушает семейную идиллию.

Mae quit school and ran away from home. After her brother’s death her family is broken. Only his red shoes (Chucks) remain. Mae has to start working in a social institution where she meets Paul. He is funny, sensitive, takes Mae as she is - and he is terminally ill. In a book named Chucks Mae writes down her own story about growing up between life and death: wild, tender and absolutely honest.

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.

She is a phone operator, he is a cab driver. In the evening they meet again in their shared apartment to read comics and have sex. He watches football on TV, she has a bath. Indecisively they try out other possibilities, gestures, stylings. The preparations for breakfast are a routine of well-coordinated motions. In just 18 minutes the film takes a lot of time to show the course of events in their duration and repetition.

Herbert Krcal (Roland Düringer) and his wife Margit (Nina Proll) dream of owning a home. They prefer to do this in the "Blue Lagoon", a prefabricated house park in the south of Vienna, where they regularly go on pilgrimage with their son Philipp. Just as regularly, they have to recognize the bitter truth that they cannot actually afford the dream house they have visited.