PROGRAM SEPTEMBER - DECEMBER
Contemporary Austrian Cinema
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 05, 6 PM
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 12, 8 PM
FREIGESPROCHEN
BY PETER PAYER. FICTION 2007 - 95 MIN
For a moment, the otherwise proper station master Thomas Hudetz is distracted by Anna???s flirtatious behavior. The result is a catastrophic train accident with countless deaths. Thomas and Anna lie to escape blame, and the lie about their shared guilt forges their bond as it changes and ends yet more lives.
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 05, 8 PM
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 12, 6 PM
24 REALITIES PER SECOND
BY NINA KUSTURICA AND EVA TESTOR. DOCUMENTARY 2005 - 58 MIN
I always say that film is twenty-four lies per second at the service of truth or at the service of the attempt to find the truth. Michael Haneke
The film portrays Michael Haneke's work and his view of cinema. It maps out his working universe with a multitude of short episodes and some poignant conversations.
FRIDAY OCTOBER 03, 6 PM
FRIDAY OCTOBER 10, 8 PM
ALL THE INVISIBLE THINGS
BY JACOB M. ERWA. FICTION 2007 - 90 MIN
Adolescents in the amphibious situation between childhood and adulthood try to cope with their emotions and their environment. Precisely when limits, a foothold, and hope are what they most urgently need, they signalize the opposite. Between loss, misplaced love, parental problems, and their own needs, the parent generation tries to understand or at least to save something.
FRIDAY OCTOBER 03, 8 PM
FRIDAY OCTOBER 10, 6 PM
PRATER
BY ULRIKE OTTINGER. DOCUMENTARY 2007 - 104 MIN
People, monsters, sensations: The beguiling images in Ulrike Ottinger's Prater transform the mythical Viennese amusement park into a cinematic experience. A captivating succession of intention and coincidence, a funfair ride through time and space. An enigmatic film that makes us think and laugh.
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 26, 8 PM
FRIDAY DECEMBER 05, 8 PM
COME SWEET DEATH
BY WOLFANG MURNBERGER. FICTION 2000 - 108 MIN
Based on a novel by Wolf Haas
Former police officer and luckless private investigator Simon Brenner has become an emergency medical technician, having been fired from the police force because he slept with his boss's wife. He only wants to keep out of trouble and keep a steady job for a while, but finds himself caught up in a war between two rival EMS organizations.
Brenner is dragged back into his old detective life when a well-known nurse falls victim to a double murder in a hospital. The weary Brenner doesn't care, but his young and idealistic EMS partner Berti is eager to investigate. Soon after this another murder occurs. This time a fellow paramedic is the victim.
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 26, 8 PM
FRIDAY DECEMBER 05, 6 PM
SILENTIUM
BY WOLFGANG MURNBERGER. FICTION 2004 - 112 MIN
Based on a novel by Wolf Haas
Something just happened again, this time in Salzburg. The son-in-law of the Festival president is dead. An alleged suicide.
For the Church, it's a blessing in disguise. After all, the suicide victim had recently caused quite an uproar by publicizing the scandalous recollections of his boyhood at the Catholic boarding school.
Brenner has other worries. But the victim's attractive widow comes on to him with sweet talk and a sweet offer to match. She thinks her husband was murdered. And she wants to hire Brenner to prove it.
FRIDAY DECEMBER 12, 6 PM
FRIDAY DECEMBER 19, 8 PM
MOZART IN CHINA
DIRECTED BY BERND NEUBURGER. FICTION 2007 - 90 MIN A young Chinese-Austrian boy invites his friend Danny to spend summer vacation with him at his grandfather's house on Hainan Island on the southern tip of China. Mozart, a theater marionette, comes alive that night, hides in Danny's suitcase, and flies with the two to China. With the help of his granddaughter Lin Lin, Grandfather restores his shadow theater. A friendship develops between Danny and Lin Lin, and Mozart falls in love with the beautiful shadow princess, for whom he composes the "Chinese Sonata."
A catastrophe arrives when a loan shark comes knocking at Grandfather's door. As the colorful shadow puppets come to life in the shadow theater only, Mozart and the kids have to find a solution to keep the theater intact. Will they succeed?
FRIDAY DECEMBER 12, 8 PM
FRIDAY DECEMBER 19, 6 PM
THE REASON WHY
DIRECTED BY HARALD SICHERITZ. FICTION 2008 - 90 MIN
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?
