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THE FIVE CARDINAL POINTS For many years now the citizens of a poor Mexican village called Tres Valles have dreamed the American dream. In a permanent vicious circle of hope and disappointment these people are constantly on the move – illegally – between two countries and cultures, while their families disintegrate.
completed
Script + Director:
Fridolin Schönwiese		  
COOKING HISTORY Military cooks: While never mentioned in textbooks, they have shaped the course of history. Based on recollections and personal stories, the film takes a look behind “great moments in time” and introduces a new angle on 20th century European history.
completed 2009
Script + Director: Peter Kerekes  
CASH & MARRY Marko and Atanas are two dudes whose lives would be sweet as strudel but for an annoying little problem with their papers. They need a European passport and they are prepared to do almost anything to get one, including buying a wife. With nothing but their brass necks and 7,000 euros, they set out to find the woman of their dreams — one who will walk them down aisle and then hang around long enough for the divorce. An odyssey through Vienna's immigrant netherworld, this real-life Green Card is an hilarious and touching insight into what it takes to jump the barriers of Fortress Europe.
completed 2009
Director: Atanas Georgiev  
A ROAD TO MECCA -
The Journey of Muhammad Asad		 In the early 1920s Leopold Weiss, a Viennese Jew, travelled to the Middle East. The desert fascinated him, and Islam became his new spiritual home. He left his Jewish roots behind, converted to Islam and changed his name to Muhammad Asad. He became one of the most important Muslims of the 20th century, first as an advisor at the royal court of Saudi Arabia, and later translating the Koran into English. Asad was also a co-founder of Pakistan and its ambassador to the UN. The director follows his fading footsteps, leading from the Arabian desert to Ground Zero. He finds a man who was not looking for adventures but rather wanted to act as a mediator between East and West. “A Road To Mecca” takes this opportunity to deal with a heated debate which is currently becoming more and more important.
completed 2008
Script + Director: Georg Misch  
PHARAO BIPOLAR PHARAO BIPOLAR is a film in the stress fields of culture and illness. The artist Werner Ludvig Buchmayer is suffering of a bipolar disorder since he is 15. The film makers accompany him during his work on his own “Pharao film”. PHARAO BIPOLAR documents his mental ups and downs.
completed 2008
Directors:
Bernhard Braun & David Gross		  
I WANT TO TELL YOU SOMETHING I WANT TO TELL YOU SOMETHING is a long-term documentary project which tells the story of four-year-old twins. While Oskar has been deaf since birth, Leo’s hearing is perfect. Both are growing up with a system of communication that develops in silence: sign language.
completed 2006
Script + Director: Martin Nguyen  
MISS UNIVERSE 1929 - Lisl Goldarbeiter.
A Queen in Wien.		 A personal documentary film about the life of Lisl Goldarbeiter – the first and only Austrian Miss Universe – and her cousin Marci, who kept his camera trained on her throughout his life. A little film about big-time fame and eternal love, set against the background of 1930s Vienna.
completed 2006
Script + Director: Péter Forgács  
THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO CINEMA The Pervert's Guide To Cinema takes the viewer on an exhilarating ride through some of the greatest movies ever made. Serving as presenter and guide is the charismatic Slavoj Zizek, the Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst. With his engaging and passionate approach to thinking, Zizek delves into the hidden language of cinema, uncovering what movies can tell us about ourselves.
completed 2006
Script + Director: Sophie Fiennes  
NO NAME CITY At a western amusement park located 30 kilometres from Vienna a small group of individuals work on their dream of an independent life. The scenery conceals a bitter power struggle which leads to a big showdown. A life lived between reality and fiction.
completed 2006
Script + Director: Florian Flicker  
CALLING HEDY LAMAR Who was she really? Viennese girl. Hollywood goddess. Inventor. A success story. A failure. Rich. Poor. Forgotten. Rediscovered. The studio wanted her to be beautiful and nothing else. Her son wanted a loving mother. Her six husbands, a wife. And herself? A film that examines the traces left behind by the most beautiful inventor in the world, told as a mixture of modern myths, fabricated legends, and true stories.
completed 2004
Script + Director: Georg Misch  
EDGAR G. ULMER - The Man Off-Screen Pieced together like a detective story, the film is a dazzling portrait of director Edgar G. Ulmer’s mysterious and moving career, and also a journey through the strange world of B movies.
completed 2004
Script + Director: Michael Palm  
WOLF SUSCHITZKY
(NO RESTING PLACE)		 A film homage to one of the most outstanding Viennese cinematographers: Wolf Suschitzky.
On the occasion of his 95th birthday the agile emigrant retells his moving life with details about his world successes - among others classic GET CARTER - in British film exile.
in production
Director: Joerg Burger  
ALBERT SCHWEITZER This film discovers the person behind the public image of the saint, looking beyond the image created by the media of “The greatest man in the world.” It unravels how an underachieving schoolboy developed into a genius and will place his personality and thinking in context with the two biggest influences on him: nature and the music of J.S. Bach.
in production
Script + Director:
Georg Misch		  
NIGHT SHIFTS Night time is the time in which most people sleep and dream. But for some, it is also a muse, a time of secrets and loneliness: night is a time of exception. But there are others, to whom night is simply everyday life.
in production
Script + Director: Ivette Löcker  
CLOSE GAMES - From Now to Sochi Sochi, the most popular summer holiday resort in Russia ever since the time of the czars, is going to be the scene of the Winter Olympic Games 2014. President Putin promised a lot of snow, no problems with traffic and huge investments. Austrian companies are also in.
in development
Script + Director:
Susanne Brandstätter		  
THE FOCUS AT INFINITY THE FOCUS AT INFINITY (working title) is a imaginary trip to scenes of our cognition in correlation to the investigation of our own such as the cosmos’genesis. A very intuitive, personal and lucid exploration to our own roots and limits of imagination.
in development
 
GUERRILLA GARDENERS A new form of environment movement takes ground. People form groups, grab their shovels and grow bedding plants. What’s so sensational about it? They don’t do it on their own land but on public domain. They care for any vacant lot that is neglected and where the city council has no ways and means to maintain it. These people name themselves Guerrilla Gardeners, they were first active in the 1970s in New York and got very popular in the last years in Europe following up the political movement Reclaim the Streets. One of the leading figures is Richard Reynolds. The film will follow him on his way to the different communities around the world, will accompany him on night actions, show the different people who involve themselves in the movement Guerrilla Gardening.
in development
Script: Judith Wieser-Huber  
DRIVING GERMANY DRIVING GERMANY examines the enigma of Germany and the German character through the automobile and the Germans’ love of it. The film conducts a geographic survey of the country in the form of a road trip, at the same time undertaking a journey into the German soul.
in development
Script + Director: Georg Misch  
GERHARD FRIEDL RIP
1967-2009