11:00  When Fire Turns to Ash
Michaela Grill
Documentary Film, AT/CAN 2025, 95 min., OmeU

Michaela Grill’s most recent essay film tells the story of Tierra del Feugo’s vanished indigenous population. With the help of nature footage, historical photos, texts, and drawings, a dialogue emerges…
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13:30  The Stories
Abu Bakr Shawky
Feature Film, AT/FR/EG/SE/BE 2025, 120 min., 21.3. OmeU, 23.3. OmdU

Egypt, 1967. As the threat of war looms over the country, Ahmed receives a message from Austria—Liz has responded to his search for a pen pal. Ahmed’s dream of becoming…
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16:30  Hidden People / Skriti ljudje
Miha Hočevar
Feature Film, SI/RS/IS 2025, 97 min., OmeU

Diagonale looks beyond Graz toward Portorož and the Festival of Slovenian Film! This new collaboration will see a current film travel abroad to a partner festival each year, fostering exchange…
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11:30  Innovatives Kino Programm 5
67 min

Challenges of a Solitary Mind
Amature Enlightenment
Dark Times
Nursery Rhymes. (Holy) Water
7 Butterflies and We Dance. And It Will Be Our Revolution

14:30  Kurzdokumentarfilm Programm 4
89 min

Familienfotoalbum
Dance with Me, Dad
3 cm of Complexity
Franzens Weltpanorama – Eine Ferry Radax Bricolage

20:00  Preisträger:innen Dokumentarfilm

Feature Film, 120 min.


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11:00  A White, White Day / Hvítur, hvítur dagur
Hlynur Pálmason
Feature Film, IS/DK/SE 2019, 109 min., OmeU

Ingimundur (Ingvar Sigurðsson), police officer and widower, mourns his wife who died in an accident. At the same time, he is renovating a house for his daughter’s family and spending…
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14:00  Kurzspielfilm Programm 4
80 min

Wenn die Schneeschmelze einsetzt
Alles aus Liebe
Frutti di mare

17:00  Mit und ohne Simone
Mirjam Unger
Feature Film, AT 2025, 90 min., dOF + AD

Simone (Adele Neuhauser) and Walter (Axel Milberg) are hopelessly at odds after, or because of forty years of marriage. They can’t afford a divorce, so they wage a little daily…
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11:00  Grünes Licht
Pavel Cuzuioc
Documentary Film, AT 2025, 101 min., OmeU

Neuropsychiatrist Johann Spittler is one of the few specialists in Germany authorized to assess people seeking assisted suicide. Spittler conducts interviews and examines their motivations—and has written more than 700…
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13:30  Zweitland
Michael Kofler
Feature Film, DE/IT/AT 2025, 113 min., OmdU

Michael Kofler’s feature film debut tells of South Tyrol’s striving for autonomy in the 1960s. Zweitland conveys the complex political situation through one family: while farmer Anton (Laurence Rupp) joins…
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16:30  Publikumspreis

Feature Film, 120 min.


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20:00  Preisträger:innen Innovatives Kino & Kurzfilme
90 min

Preisträger:innen Kurzspielfilm
Preisträger:innen Kurzdokumentarfilm
Preisträger:innen Innovatives Kino

10:30  Neue Unsicherheiten 7: Tito-Material, Somewhere Else, Draga Ljiljana
95 min

Tito-Material
Somewhere Else
Draga Ljiljana – Liebe Ljiljana

14:30  Nur ein Augenblick
Joerg Burger
Documentary Film, AT 2026, 78 min., OmeU

It’s omnipresent and yet elusive: time. In his documentary film, Joerg Burger attempts to grasp its essence from different approaches. Through factual interviews with experts in archaeology, physics, psychology, mathematics,…
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17:00  Hungry
Susanne Brandstätter
Innovative Cinema, AT 2026, 95 min., 22.3. OmdU + AD, 23.3. OmdU

In the near future, a mysterious being explores the earth, where human life no longer exists. Instead, dried-out soil, abandoned cities, deserts. With the help of voice recordings from the…
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