Breaking the Ice

An Austrian woman escapes from the pressure of running her family’s vineyard by playing ice hockey. Then a new player arrives t...

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Defamation

Is anti-Semitism an extant threat on the verge of coalescing into a second Holocaust? Or is it a scare tactic used by right-win...

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Edgar G. Ulmer - The Man OFF Screen/Detour

"The King of the Bs," Edgar G. Ulmer was one of the first independent filmmakers, shooting movies in six days for a fraction of...

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Family Dinner

Overweight and insecure, Simi spends Easter weekend with her famous nutritionist aunt. The hope is that it’ll help her get on a...

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FILM IST. a girl & a gun

Gustav Deutsch, the maestro of found footage filmmaking, excavates old movies from archives worldwide (including the Kinsey Ins...

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Half Moon

Graying but determined, Mamo is a famed Kurdish musician who obtains permission to cross the Iranian border to give his first c...

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Michael H. Profession: Director

Over the past twenty-five years, director Michael Haneke has established himself as a towering figure in modern cinema whose ri...

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Miss Universe 1929

Amateur filmmaker Marci Tenczer was smitten with his cousin, Liesl Goldarbeiter and chronicled her rise from a modest childhood...

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Notes on Marie Menken

A diary portrait of underground filmmaker Marie Menken based on the reminiscences of her family and friends. Various interviewe...

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Optical Sound

Music is there at the start. The composition is in charge of direction and draws the sound-on-film onto the image. The sound-on...

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Picture Character

Emojis are a worldwide phenomenon, with some arguing that these smiling poops and heart-eyed faces are on the verge of actually...

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Portrait of Wally

In 1939, Nazis seized control of Austrian art collector Lea Bondi's beloved Egon Schiele painting "Portrait of Wally." For 70 y...

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Taxidermia

A wildly inventive and often grotesque panoply of sordid characters and imagery, this dark comedy by the director of the acclai...

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The Dark

Undead and hating it, Mina haunts the woods surrounding her childhood home. When she befriends an abused boy, she must figure o...

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The Motion of Stars

Eight-year-old Lena’s favourite book, about the secret relationship between stars and humans, gains special significance when s...

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The Shaman

Screening as part of Shorts: Interference

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The Souvenirs of Mr. X

A paean to amateur filmmakers everywhere, this documentary finds Riahi on an absorbing search for the mysterious auteur of a fe...

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UI - Soon we will all be One

When hard-bitten ranger Kira is sent out to retrieve a drone that has gone astray, she discovers a mysterious, large object in ...

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World Mirror Cinema

Veteran Viennese filmmaker Gustav Deutsch's World Mirror Cinema is composed of so-called "found footage" from the early days of...

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