Diagonale
Festival of Austrian Film
March 18 – 23, 2026, Graz
Festival of Austrian Film
March 18 – 23, 2026, Graz
Film Program | Films A-Z | Directors
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Feature Film
Position Hlynur Pálmason
Supporting Programme
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Documentary Film
Film History New Uncertainties
Award-winning Films
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Innovative Cinema
Film History Girls Will Be Boys
Children's Cinema
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Audience Award
Special Duisburg Film Week
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Position Billy Roisz
And in the Middle: A Wirtshaus
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| Annenhof Kino 2 | Annenhof Kino 5 | Annenhof Kino 6 | KIZ Royal 1 | Rechbauer | Schubertkino 1 | Schubertkino 2 |
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A Russian Winter / Un hiver russe
18:00
A Russian Winter / Un hiver russePatric Chiha Documentary Film, FR 2026, 86 min., OmeU Since the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, life in Russia is no longer an option for Margarita, Yuri, and their friends. All have made their roundabout way to Paris, where… Details 86 min Patric Chiha
WAX & GOLD
20:30
WAX & GOLDRuth Beckermann Documentary Film, AT/IT 2026, 97 min., 20.3. OmeU, 21.3. OmdU In her latest documentary, Ruth Beckermann takes a hotel in Addis Ababa built by Ethiopian ruler Haile Selassie as a starting point for exploring the African country. WAX & GOLD… Details 97 min Ruth Beckermann |
Licht, kein Licht
10:30
Licht, kein LichtMatthias van Baaren Feature Film, AT 2026, 83 min., OmeU A man who shot at people for no apparent reason, has been sentenced to prison. A young woman, a lab assistant, who is appointed as a juror in the case… Details 83 min Matthias van Baaren
Die Kunstkomplizen
16:30
Die KunstkomplizenEbba Sinzinger Documentary Film, AT 2026, 98 min., 20.3. OmeU, 22.3. OmdU (CC) + AD For more than four decades, Brigitte Prinzgau and Wolfgang Podgorschek have been partners in life and work, as PRINZpod. Over the course of a year, Ebba Sinzinger accompanies the duo… Details 98 min Ebba Sinzinger
19:45
Innovatives Kino 1 79 min |
Teresas Körper
11:00
Teresas KörperMagdalena Chmielewska Feature Film, AT 2026, 76 min., OmeU “My spine is going to break any moment now,” Teresa complains to her daughter. Filmmaker Magdalena Chmielewska approaches this fictionalized version of her mother as though it were a puzzle,… Details 76 min Magdalena Chmielewska
White Snail
14:00
White SnailElsa Kremser, Levin Peter Feature Film, AT/DE 2025, 115 min., OmeU The model Masha and the painter Misha meet in Minsk, Belarus—two lonely souls dreaming of another life who recognize in one another a yearning that is similar to their own.… Details 115 min Elsa Kremser, Levin Peter
17:15
Beautiful and Neat Room 
17:15
Beautiful and Neat RoomMaria Petschnig Feature Film, AT/US 2025, 118 min., OmdU Der episodisch angelegte Spielfilm erzählt von einer eigenwilligen jungen Frau die, um als Künstlerin in New York (über)leben und sich ihre Wohnung leisten zu können – ihr Gästezimmer untervermietet. Mit… Details 118 min Maria Petschnig
21:15
Godland / Vanskabte Land / Volaða Land 
21:15
Godland / Vanskabte Land / Volaða LandHlynur Pálmason Feature Film, DK/IS/FR/SE 2022, 143 min., OmeU A wooden cross, a few books, and camera equipment: a young Danish priest is meant to build a chapel and establish a parish in Iceland in the late nineteenth century.… Details 143 min Hlynur Pálmason |
Kurzspielfilm 1
11:00
Kurzspielfilm Programm 180 min Ein Unfall A. will raus (Über Neutralität) Found & Lost Mosquito 80 min
Portrait of Nowness
14:00
Portrait of NownessJuri Rechinsky, Mario Hainzl Innovative Cinema, AT 2025, 88 min., OmeU What unites us all, regardless of the circumstances or part of the world we live in? Is simply being human the lowest common denominator? In their experimental documentary, Juri Rechinsky… Details 88 min Juri Rechinsky, Mario Hainzl
Rose
16:30
RoseMarkus Schleinzer Feature Film, AT/DE 2026, 93 min., 18.3. EÖ OmeU, 18.3. OmeU + AD, 20.3. OmeU + AD During the Thirty Years’ War, a soldier turns up in a Protestant village and claims to be the heir to an abandoned estate. The mysterious stranger is in fact Rose,… Details 93 min Markus Schleinzer
19:45
Friendly Fire 
19:45
Friendly FireKlaus Fried, Julia Albrecht Documentary Film, AT/DE 2025, 112 min., OmdU Erich Fried (1921–1988) wrote famous love poems, but the heart of his career was political discourse: he was concerned with the Holocaust, left-wing protest, pacifism, the Middle East conflict, and… Details 112 min Klaus Fried, Julia Albrecht |
10:15
Das Jahr nach Dayton 
10:15
Das Jahr nach DaytonNikolaus Geyrhalter Documentary Film, AT 1997, 204 min., OmdU A documentary about war-torn Bosnia, filmed after the signing of the Dayton Agreement, which ended the Bosnian War (1992–1995). An epic snapshot and intimate long-term observation of the first year… Details 204 min Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Der Page vom Dalmasse-Hotel
14:30
Der Page vom Dalmasse-HotelVictor Janson Feature Film, DE 1933, 83 min., dOF To escape unemployment, Friedel masquerades as a man and lands a job at a grand hotel. As a dashing young page, she encounters wealthy gentlemen and sophisticated con-artist women who… Details 83 min Victor Janson
17:15
Aufzeichnungen aus dem Tiefparterre 
17:15
Aufzeichnungen aus dem TiefparterreRainer Frimmel Documentary Film, AT 2000, 91 min., OmeU Rainer Frimmel’s documentary film debut Aufzeichnungen aus dem Tiefparterre is a montage of a self-documentation: for many years, Viennese truck driver Peter Haindl recorded himself on video, usually sitting at… Details 91 min Rainer Frimmel
Wellen Wende
20:00
Wellen WendeJosephine Ahnelt Documentary Film, AT 2025, 73 min., 19.3 OmeU, 20.3. OmdU A “torrential hormonal cocktail of emotions,” bliss but also strain—the postpartum period shapes the lives and emotions of Judith, Doris, Nina, Ludisis, and Luise, whom Josephine Ahnelt portrays in her… Details 73 min Josephine Ahnelt |
Innovatives Kino 2
11:00
Innovatives Kino Programm 267 min Rojo Žalia Blau Winter Blumen Garten The Window Véronique 1 €, 3 € De natura tenebrarum 67 min
14:15
Innovatives Kino 3 75 min
17:45
Mein halber Vater 
17:45
Mein halber VaterViki Kühn Documentary Film, AT 2026, 92 min., OmeU When Viki Kühn’s father suffers a stroke, her mother suddenly becomes the new head of the family. With the hand camera, the director accompanies her parents for the next eight… Details 92 min Viki Kühn
Roisz 2
20:00
POSITION Billy Roisz 261 min darkroom Who’s Afraid of RGB elesyn 15.625 HAPPY DOOM brRRMMMWHEee II AQUAMARINE paris THE 61 min
Welcome Home Baby
22:30
Welcome Home BabyAndreas Prochaska Feature Film, AT/DE 2025, 115 min., OmeU Judith (Julia Franz Richter) has inherited an old-fashioned, rambling house in a provincial nest surrounded by idyllic mountain scenery. Years ago, the young woman left this town for the big… Details 115 min Andreas Prochaska |
Uncomfortably Comfortable
10:30
Uncomfortably ComfortableMaria Petschnig Documentary Film, US/AT 2021, 71 min., OmdU Film portraits of marginalized protagonists can be deeply uncomfortable undertakings. With a small, digital camera, Maria Petschnic spent one year accompanying the daily life of Marc Thompsan, who has been… Details 71 min Maria Petschnig
14:45
Totschweigen 
14:45
TotschweigenMargareta Heinrich, Eduard Erne Documentary Film, AT/DE/NL 1994, 89 min., dOF During excavations on the outskirts of Rechnitz, what was long repressed comes to the surface: in the last days of World War II, 180 Jewish forced laborers were murdered and… Details 89 min Margareta Heinrich, Eduard Erne
Baba, What's Your Plan? / Baba, Ne Yapmayı Düşünüyorsun?
17:00
Baba, What's Your Plan? / Baba, Ne Yapmayı Düşünüyorsun?Tolga Karaaslan Documentary Film, AT/TR 2026, 89 min., 19.3. OmeU, 20.3. OmdU “When someone in the family becomes chronically ill, the whole family falls ill,” explains Celal Karaaslan. After decades of heavy physical labor, he is waiting for his invalidity pension. For… Details 89 min Tolga Karaaslan |
