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- In the Austrian version of Desperate Housewives, five bored, unhappy, rich suburban women are taking charge of their lives.
- Vienna assumes parents' spy work when they disappear. She steals UN data to sell online but buyer doubts she's the real deal. Taking payment for intel she doesn't have starts a race between the buyer and others to find her first.
- A wide variety of documentary subjects, from animals (dragonflies, ants) to people (Genghis Khan) to science (time, perception) to places (St. Stephens Cathedral, Umbria). The style is sometimes purely narrative, at other times imbued with scenes to illustrate a particular point. A good mix of subjects for lovers of documentaries.
- A sitcom about people-pleaser Lisl Frick, who thinks life gets easier by running away from problems.
- CopStories Crime.
- With freedom of expression once again under fire, Who´s Afraid of Kathy Acker? explores the unbelievably extreme life of punk icon Kathy Acker, whose sexually explicit writing expanded the limits of female self-expression but was also banned in many countries. Kathy Acker, the outrageous punk icon banned in Germany but named in 2005 one of Americas original outlaw writers by the New York Times, lived life her life without boundaries. A friend of William Burroughs and Patti Smith, Acker was fascinatingly complex: A tattooed, foul-mouthed, Harley Davidson Rider who took opium & enjoyed sex with both men & women, she was also an intellectual who studied Classics at one of Americas top universities. Her celebrated novel, Blood & Guts in High School, which pioneered innovative sampling techniques, sold out within a week of its release. Proclaiming that There was no female language given me, Acker rejected her wealthy New York background to champion voices from the edge of society: the Bowery bums, crack whores, & blacks left behind by greed is good Reaganomics. Acker, the Mother of the Riot Grrls, became a myth through living life like one of her characters; inspired by the French libertine writers de Sade & Genet, she worked in sex shows on Times Square, dabbled in sadomasochistic sex & had her labia pierced high on coke. The heir to Burroughs, Acker rewrote the world in her own image, blending fact & fiction, biography & dream imagery, hardcore sex & incisive political satire in a non-narrative cyber-punk style. She stole heavily from classic fiction to rewrite the heroes as female, a transgender, appropriative method that drew both praise and criticism. Acker challenged societys ideal of femininity, daring to be tough & vulnerable at the same time. But she paid a high price for her nonconformity, suffering a double mastectomy in 1997 that she saw as a manifestation of her lifes struggle to be allowed to be who she was. Acker left behind a legacy of sixteen novels that cannot be ignored, but she learned the hard way that breaking the rules never comes cheap. (A. Standen-Raz) Director´s Statement: Over the three years I spent researching the life of the American post-punk cult author Kathy Acker, I became surprised that no film had yet been made on this uncompromising writer whose life & fiction became so blurred eventually the two were inseparable. From many interviews, the portrait of Kathy that emergedtattoos, piercings, Harley Davidson, bad languagewas of a rare individual unafraid to live like one of her characters, in a world where pulp fiction & the Classics, biography & pornography coexist. I wanted Who´s Afraid of Kathy Acker? to be more than a simple portrait of a star, to go deep into the issues which Kathy Acker raised in her work: the freedom to write about female desire, violence and explicit sex, & the underlying politics of subordination that affect us all. Kathy didnt play a clichéd female role, nor care much for social niceties. But she was brutally honest, her most endearing traither incisively witty female heroines showed women with all their joyful power, vulnerabilities & wounds, which is basically our condition. (Barbara Caspar, Director) Additional Informations: The film uses several layers to explore all sides of the contradictions of Acker as a woman, and of her work: Found footage covering Ackers entire life, from family pictures to BBC interviews; readings & performances of Kathy Acker spanning three decades; reenactments to bring characters of the books alive; interviews with young New York readers and the people who knew her best; and, last but not least, period documentary footage covering the Punk Scene, New York in the 70s and 80s, and other places of relevance to Ackers life.
- Emma is a 50 year old unemployed mother of two grown up children, who's husband is looking for his sexual awaking - with another woman. The thought of filing for divorce also turns out as a financial threat for Emma. She starts looking for jobs and ends up as a salesperson in an "erotic market", run by Charlie. She quickly realizes that the ranch of products in the shop is not made for women and decides to revamp the store into an "erotic boutique for women and everyone who loves women". Emma also develops friendships with some of her female customers and undertakes a journey in search of her own orgasm, which she has lost over the years. Thus her attitude about herself, life in general and towards her husband changes. Her husband on the other hand is more and more interested in Emma, since she started to focus on her (sexual) self. Emma also increasingly emancipates herself from her ultra conservative mother, Hildegard, and from her two grown-up children (daughter and son) for whom she has always been the overprotective mother. She finds new girlfriends and realizes that many ideas about female sexuality have become obsolete and that female arousal arises under very different circumstances than represented in the general public.
- Two students, Sarah and Philip, after meeting online develop a tragic plan to end their lives. They decide to meet and hike into the mountains where they would jump off a cliff together. They share their thoughts and struggles, looking into enduring issues about family, depression and fulfillment, while also touching upon the unique issues of growing up in the modern world.
- When a strange girl appears on a beach in England she has to depend on a local boy to believe her story and help her return home.
- "Again and again I have this dream. After all those years I know every single detail. And maybe it is the most important story of my life." It's the dream of an old man, the memories of a forbidden love thousand years ago, long before our time. He tells this last secret to his granddaughter, the story of Aiana and Janas who had to escape from the king's knights and the tragic consequences of their love. 1000 years later, in our present, a young couple is in a car on the journey to nowhere. Anna and Julian, both in their 20s are enjoying the ride and their freedom. It seems as if they were escaping the monotony of daily life in the city, to start somewhere else completely new. Anna starts reading a book, and soon it is obvious that she is the granddaughter who heard the old mans dream long ago. After many years she found the book, where he had written down this story. Slowly the two stories, the escape from everyday life and the escape from the tragic consequences of a forbidden love, develop, but soon they even start to merge. Dream and reality become one and in the end find the meaning and the common essence.
- The united sides of the family triangle, made up of the mother, father and child, represent the most fundamental elements of our society and the foundation stone of our existence. However, the borders of this triangle must first be transcended in order to create a new one. Before escaping the home-like nest into ultimate freedom, the fugitive must follow three essential channels.
- Eight-year old Joseph suffers from phimosis. He slowly discovers pleasure in the prescribed foreskin exercises. But instead of getting better, his condition worsens due to his family's reactions. A tragicomic search for the truth ensues.
- The struggle for a new apartment gets way out of hand.
- At 11-weeks pregnant Gloria suffers a miscarriage. Soon she feels the pressure to move on as if nothing has happened. When she's denied seeing herself as a mother, she finds the courage to step up for herself and her unborn baby.
- A stolen backpack, a break-up and a global pandemic: Austrian's most famous (and only) lesbian is ready to become British.
- At a flea market, a filmmaker finds old Super-8 film, made by an unknown amateur. He tries to find out, who this man was and what drove him to the passion of filmmaking.
- A stylish and multi layered drama, COMES LOVE is a story of war and peace in the lives of three urban girls and their male counterparts in their mid twenties. 36 sleepless hours, in the course of which the codified surfaces of relationships crack open and the chaotic truths underneath emerge; one part blue, one part gay.
- Harald Mayr is a devoted postman in a small village called Gaiswinkel. He is not only delivering letters, but also checking them. If their content doesn't meet his moral standard, he amends them to fit this. Day in, day out he lives his routine, each discrepancy throws him easily out of the track until he meets Lisa. She is a German seasonal worker and is first shocked by Harald's activity. But Lisa succumbs to the appeal of 'opening the envelope' after sharing some quality time with Harald. They develop a special relationship, but the intrusion in the privacy of individuals and letters leads to controversies.