Director: Rainer Frimmel

Rural life and intoxication. Melancholy and society. The fuel for it: alcohol. Ulrich Seidl’s provincial burlesque Der Ball meets Florian Pochlatko’s south Austrian teenage dirtbag short Erdbeerland. To start things off, an earlier rarely screened film by Rainer Frimmel, whose title describes the three films’ simultaneous tragedy, comedy, veracity, and desire: Che bella è la vita. An invitation to a Sentimental Journey.