Viennale

IT WORKS tells seemingly ordinary stories that are a celebration of the individual achievements of the four protagonists.

To document the imment conflict in eastern Ukraine, photographer Pierre Crom traveled to the Donbass in 2014.

This documentary shows the consequences of the 2008 war for displaced Georgians in a refugee settlement and their struggle to find a new home.

A creeping, almost invisible toxic waste catastrophe is taking place on Somalia's coast.

A feverish Schlingensief documentary by Bettina Böhler, a renowned editor, portraying this exceptional artist in his full range.

Johanna Dohnal, icon of the Austrian women's movement and first Minister for Women's Affairs, shaped the Alpine Republic like hardly any other.

This black and white film portrays the life and stories of a village on the Russian-Ukrainian border, combining elements of fiction and documentary.

Milena Czernovsky and Lilith Kraxner's debut blurs the line between documentary and fiction filmmaking, joining a recent trend in the film industry.

This documentary portrays women who embark on a sea voyage thus challenging traditional gender roles just by being there.

PARABETON shows in chronological sequence 17 buildings by the Italian engineer and architect Pier Luigi Nervi (1891-1979) in Italy and France.

The voyage of a tree from Europe to the Amazon is a silent wittness to global interdependencies and economic absurdities.

A European theater director wants to stage a play about revolution in Burkina Faso and gets caught up in a real revolution.

This film places acts of resistance against National Socialism and current struggles in a historical continuity.

9 LIVES portrays the fate of young people who decided at the age of 11, 12 or 13 to leave home and to live on the streets.

Deniz, 21 works as a dubbing artist and has just ended her relationship with Jan. In one short day, she goes through a separation and a new beginning.

Documentary filmmaker Heinz Emigholz sketches a biography of the French architects and civil engineers Auguste and Gustave Perret and their buildings.

Daniel Spoerri is one of the most important representatives of object art, co-founder of the artist group Nouveau Réalisme and inventor of Eat-Art.

This moving portrait of a maternity hospital in Vienna provides a fascinating insight into the drama, pain, and beauty of being born into this world.

Anja Salomonowitz portrays three women from her family who as children lived through WWII but whose memories of that time diverge.

Unemployment... Helmut and Sieglinde are over fifty and already considered unemployable. What about young people trying to find work?

While growing up, filmmaker Michael Stock was sexually abused by his own father. Two decades later he confronts his family.

A touching documentary about the everyday life of Zurich's forgotten youth.

A semi-documentary that follows a group of young migrants in Austria as they negotiate the maze of administrative procedures.

A look behind the scenes at the wonderful energy and daily routine of the people who bring us the world renowned Vienna State Opera.

Two bored teenage girls go on a rampage through their home village. Will their friendship survive this day?

An epic documentary panorama about a journey through the United States.

Multifaceted portrait of the composer and music critic Walter Arlen, who musically processed the horrors of the Nazi era.

Portrait of five female Viennese artists, who in their pioneering role have left their mark on contemporary art.

A filmmaker discovers evidence of a Wehrmacht massacre in Italy in his grandfather's estate and investigates the case himself.

The testimonies of former Wehrmacht soldiers collected by Ruth Beckermann are still horrifying today.

This documentary tells the harrowing story of the global phenomenon of human trafficking.

Karin Jurschick examins the reasons for her late mother's suicide.

Against the breathtaking backdrop of the Swiss mountains, 3 extraordinary vocal artists develop traditional yodelling into their own musical language.

Over a hundred years ago, "Togoland", now the Republic of Togo and part of present-day Ghana, was a colonial possession of the German Empire.

A doc about four extraordinary women pursuing the same dream: composing, producing and living from their own music, without compromising their ideals

THOSE WHO GO THOSE WHO STAY is Ruth Beckermann's meta-film - an analysis of her own cinematic works, a kind of progress report.

Jürgen Blin, who ran away from home at the age of 14 to go to sea, talks openly about his life and his years at a boxing school in Hamburg.