Cycle
From 28.10. To 04.11.2002.
Tjedan austrijskog angažiranog filma
Films in cycle
My Russia
(Mein Russland, 2002)
Directed by: Barbara Gräftner
Synopsis:
Margit Blucha is a bank clerk, divorced with two grown up children. On the outside she seems adapted and integrated, but on the inside she is isolated and lonely. Due to her son's upcoming wedding with a girl from Ukraine, she becomes even more desperate. Incapable of a true relationship and a stranger to herself, Margit reacts in haste. She forcefully recreates a family and social surrounding according to her liking unaware that she is destroying people on the way… This film won Barbara Graftn...
color, 90 min
PROJECTION:
Monday 28.10.2002 AT 21:00
Loss is to be Expected
(Mit Verlust ist zu rechnen, Austria, 1992)
Directed by: Ulrich Seidl
PHOTOGRAPHY: Peter Zeitlinger
Synopsis:
The settings are two villages on Austria's border with Czechoslovakia in the winter of 1992. On the Czech side lives a poor Czech widow, on the Austrian side is Josef Paur, who hopes to find a wife in Czechoslovakia. A parade of brides for the elderly gentleman in the seclusion of the borderland, old age, and the state of Eastern economy after the fall of the Berlin wall are seen.
color, 108'
PROJECTION:
Tuesday 29.10.2002 AT 19:00
Yugofilm
()
Directed by: Goran Rebić
Synopsis:
Milan retells a story of his older brother Saša who has been taken off the train on his way from Belgrade to Vienna in 1991 and mobilized. Saša was the pride and joy of the Serbian family Tomić. He vanishes without a trace, but reappears a year later in Vienna with his friend from Bosnia. Unfortunately, the war in the Balkans spreads hatred everywhere, in family Tomić and amongst their friends alike. Saša cannot forget the horrible experiences of the war and seeks peace in Vienna – but finds onl...
color, 88 min
PROJECTION:
Tuesday 29.10.2002 AT 21:00
Suzie Washington
(1998)
Directed by: Florian Flicker
Synopsis:
Nana Isachawili, a teacher from Eastern Europe wants to go to America to start a new life. She arrives in Vienna where they discover that her visa is false and she is kept in custody. She is about to be deported, but Nana refuses to return and manages to run away. Under the name Suzie Washington – taken from a girl she met on the way – she travels towards the west and the green border. On the way she meets all kinds of men who try to seduce her. Having arrived at the green border she attempts to...
color, 85 min
PROJECTION:
Wednesday 30.10.2002 AT 19:00
Northern Edge
(Nordrand, 1999)
Directed by: Barbara Albert
Synopsis:
The setting is 1995Austria. Jasmin, Tamara, Roman, Senad, and Valentin, five people from different backgrounds, meet at the celebration of national holiday in Vienna. For a short time they share their lives and cravings. Testing their luck in life, they offer each other support and warmth trying to forget their miserable jobs, unwanted pregnancy, traumatic war experiences and the guns they have to carry to protect the Austrian border. Their attempts are often clumsy, but prompted by the wish to...
color, 103 min
PROJECTION:
Wednesday 30.10.2002 AT 21:00
The Stranger
(Die Fremde, 1999)
Directed by: Götz Spielmann
Synopsis:
The stranger is a beautiful young Mexican woman named Mercedes. She comes to Vienna for several days with her German friend to smuggle drugs. Their relationship is in crisis, but they hope that money will fix it. Unfortunately, their liaison in Vienna was caught and they remain trapped in the city. After the separation he has been living in the suburbs with a single goal: never to break down. There is little room for longing in his life. But then the two of them meet and what was unreachable com...
color, 88 min
PROJECTION:
Thursday 31.10.2002 AT 19:00
Pripyat
(1999)
Directed by: Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Synopsis:
The town of Pripyat is situated five kilometres from the nuclear plant Chernobyl. Till 1986 it was inhabited by 50000 people. Today Pripyat is a ghost city guarded by the militia. The radiation here is greatly above the allowed levels – the town is placed in the centre of the area polluted by radiation. In spite of that, the area is not deserted. The third block of the plant is still active. The administration of the zone, militia and numerous research agencies offer well paid, and much sought-...
color, 100 min
PROJECTION:
Thursday 31.10.2002 AT 21:00
Dog Days
(Hundstage, Austria, 2001)
Directed by: Ulrich Seidl
PHOTOGRAPHY: Wolfgang Thaler
Synopsis:
The film takes place on a weekend during the-dog days period (between 24 July and 23 August). Dog days are the time of excessively hot weather when the stars of Orion light the sky. The scenery is that of unbearable heat south of Vienna in a no man's land between the highways, shopping malls and suburban houses. The temperature is rising, violence intensifies, and roads crack. Such is the atmosphere of the six stories sharing the same place and time, dealing with the everyday life and aggression...
color, 121'
PROJECTION:
Saturday 02.11.2002 AT 15:00
Lovely Rita
(2001)
Directed by: Jessica Hausner
Synopsis:
Rita is an outsider. At school everyone laughs at her big breast, and teachers say she's insolent. Rita does everything to please and prove herself, which makes the situation ever worse. Parents want to tame her, but good old methods do not work with Rita. Rita's father's nasty temper sows fear and terror; he calls Rita a 'wicked creature'. Lovely Rita talks about Rita's stubborn attempt to escape loneliness and to be dear to someone – for example little Fexi who is thirteen, lives next door and...
color, 80 min
PROJECTION:
Saturday 02.11.2002 AT 17:00
Summer Vacation
(Grosse Ferien, 1997)
Directed by: Antonin Svoboda
Synopsis:
Many Austrians still recall the summer of 1978 when the Austrian football team played some of their best matches at the World Championship in Argentina. The climax was the 3:2 victory over Germany in Cordoba. Sports commentator Edi Finger became immortal because he 'went crazy' on the air. Nine-year-old Tondo (Niki Ryba) spends his summer vacations in Vienna. His family cannot afford the expensive trips of his neighbours. Summer vacations seem to have their own rhythm: at first the time stands s...
color, 40 min
PROJECTION:
Monday 04.11.2002 AT 20:00
Sunspots
(Sonnenflecken, 1998)
Directed by: Barbara Albert
Synopsis:
A young woman and a little girl are playing football. When the ball reaches the sky, the Black and White sequence turns into red evening sky in which a bird flies. The bird belongs to dreams. The beginning is programmed: different levels of experience collapse one into another talking about growing up, dreams and expectations, frustrations while music helps us go on dancing: Rhythm of the heart… Two young women and little Angie live somewhere in the suburbs. What do they expect of life? This fil...
25 min
PROJECTION:
Monday 04.11.2002 AT 20:00
Flora
(1995)
Directed by: Jessica Hausner
PHOTOGRAPHY: Robert Winkler
Synopsis:
The growing up of the heroine, the humiliations, and dancing school lessons. This is a film made of looks, tender moments and trivial songs. It demands full attention and offers a clear set of visualisations of loneliness and the attempts to escape.