Austria Movies

This film begins with black women dancing and black men expressing their praise: They are praising Austria. For over ten years, the 'alpine republic'...

A seven month journey on foot through Italy from the Swiss-Italian border down to Sicily, with a rucksack containing a camera, a tape recorder, and th...

"Housekeeping" is about hotel rooms, how they are used fleetingly by guests, and about those who have been cleaning the same rooms for years. The way...

The film focuses on the Leopoldstadt district of Vienna. The picture it paints is one which could apply to other parts of Vienna and other European ci...

Emil is an elderly circus director. His pleasant and all-too-frequent duty is to greet people from every village in the land. Again and again the tire...

A musical tour de force through the "new German era".

It is five hundred years since Brazil was discovered. At that time there was no land ownership. Nowadays, "Terra" is, for many people, synonymous with...

A film with and about the painter Christian Ludwig Attersee. The external occasion, Attersee's fiftieth birthday is being complemented by an in-depth...

The Loiblpass is situated in the mountains between Austria and Yugoslavia: 12km from the village of Neumarktl and 10km from Ferlach in Carinthia. Betw...

A film about everyday life on Matuku, a small island in the Fiji archipelago. The first part of a trilogy about Fiji, "Seven Scenes of Plenty" offers...

Forty kilometers from Verona, at the southernmost tip of the Alps, lies the hamlet of Giazza. Here live the last representatives of a Germanic languag...

Experimental documentary film about the behavior and culture of the Indians in the American southwest and about the situation of the white artist in (...

The portrait of an 87 year old woman who has been writing poems for 3 years. The seven thousand poems she wrote in this short period show her strength...

Peter Grandits is 78 years old and a retired shoemaker. He gets his tools out - probably for the last time - and makes a pair of woman's boots before...

Manfred Deix is a cartoonist an painter. Above all, his aggressive caricatures of politicians and political events in the Austrian provinces have made...

Scenes from the life of eight Styrian musicians; a collage which is intensified through super-8 images, polaroid photographs, the sound track which in...