Austria Movies

A sketch: Observation of everyday life of people and situations in Vienna. "Visual art is an excellent way of observation in our culture. The everyda...

The leitmotif of this work is the peculiarity, which can be found in many people, of gradually assuming the characteristics of islands. This central t...

The first twenty years of Adelheid Dworak's life (1869 to 1889) are traced in a mixture of biographical feature and historical documentary.

A documentary film on the taboo subject of Aids. In the foreground stand five people whose lives have been taken many different directions because of...

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 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 (...

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...

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