Diagonale
Festival of Austrian Film
April 4–9, 2024, Graz

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MERMAIDS DON'T CRY
18:00  MERMAIDS DON'T CRY
Franziska Pflaum
AT 2022, 92 min., OmeU

Annika (Stefanie Reinsperger) dreams of having a synthetic mermaid fin—expensive fun for the supermarket cashier who longs for distraction from the worries of her everyday life. Franziska Pflaum’s feature film…
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92 min
Franziska Pflaum
27 Storeys
21:00  27 Storeys
Bianca Gleissinger
AT/DE 2023, 82 min., OmeU

For many, the Alterlaa residential park remains the manifestation of a residential utopia. The filmmaker grew up in the buildings known as the “Glück(s’)bau” in a play on the architect’s…
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82 min
Bianca Gleissinger
Staging Death + 2551.02
14:30  2551.02 – The Orgy of the Damned
90 min

Staging Death
2551.02 – The Orgy of the Damned

90 min
Kurzspielfilm 3
17:30  Kurzspielfilm Programm 3
80 min

Rosas Schloss
Der Riss

80 min
Zoo Lock Down
20:30  Zoo Lock Down
Andreas Horvath
AT 2022, 72 min., kein Dialog

During the lockdowns, the animals in the Salzburg Zoo, normally exposed to the gazes and calls of visitors 365 days a year, experienced an environment free of humans for the…
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72 min
Andreas Horvath
Kurzspielfilm 1
11:00  Kurzspielfilm Programm 1
89 min

Ciao, Czerny, Ciao
Until I lie still
mise à nu
Bohemia by the Sea

89 min
MATTER OUT OF PLACE
15:00  MATTER OUT OF PLACE
Nikolaus Geyrhalter
AT 2022, 106 min., OmdU

In MATTER OUT OF PLACE, Nikolaus Geyrhalter views garbage as a global phenomenon and visits diverse sites for this—the bottom of the ocean and mountains, Nepal and Austria, incinerators, and…
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106 min
Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Jugofilm
17:30  Jugofilm
Goran Rebić
AT 1997, 88 min., OmdU

Vienna 1991. For the members of a Serbian-Viennese guest worker family, not only have the daily tragic television and radio news from the war in Yugoslavia become a time-detonated explosive…
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88 min
Goran Rebić
I AM HERE!
20:30  I AM HERE!
Ludwig Wüst
AT 2023, 72 min., OmeU

Monika and Martin have known each other since childhood. After having no contact for many years, they walk through the forest of their past in search of hidden memories. Ludwig…
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72 min
Ludwig Wüst
Tee im Harem des Archimedes
23:00  Tee im Harem des Archimedes
Mehdi Charef
FR 1985, 110 min., fOmeU

Mehdi Charef, formerly a laborer, then writer and director, adapted his own novel as a feature film about the friendship of two Parisian teens in the concrete desert of the…
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110 min
Mehdi Charef
Kurzdoku 1
10:30  Kurzdokumentarfilm Programm 1
67 min

Wir sind alle Kanaken
Reihe 6
My Sleepless Friends

67 min
A Boy's Life
14:30  A Boy's Life
Christian Krönes, Florian Weigensamer
AT 2023, 96 min., eOmdU

Daniel Chanoch describes his perspective as that of an outsider—as someone who is different. The things he talks about are different, his memories are different. Chanoch is an Auschwitz survivor.…
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96 min
Christian Krönes, Florian Weigensamer
LE FORMICHE DI MIDA
18:00  LE FORMICHE DI MIDA
Edgar Honetschläger
AT/IT 2023, 75 min., 22.3. OmdU / 24.3. OmeU

Edgar Honetschläger embarks on a mythological-philosophical search for new ways of nar-rating our relationship to nature. Assisting him in the process are talking ants, nymphs, farmers, and a narrating donkey…
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75 min
Edgar Honetschläger
Kurzspielfilm 2
14:30  Kurzspielfilm Programm 2
85 min

LUFT
Aufnahmen einer Wetterkamera
Applaus
HECKSPOILER – Maurice
Stier

85 min
Eismayer
18:00  Eismayer
David Wagner
AT 2022, 87 min., OmeU

Young men in military uniforms, alienated from the world through which Sergeant Major Eismayer commands them. Eismayer is the horror of all young boot camp recruits, the manifestation of a…
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87 min
David Wagner
Souls of a River
11:00  Souls of a River
Chris Krikellis
DE/GR/AT 2022, 83 min., OmeU

A traveler sets out in search of clues in the landscape of his memories — at the Evros River, which forms part of the border between Turkey and Greece. Here…
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83 min
Chris Krikellis
Kurzdoku 2
15:00  Kurzdokumentarfilm Programm 2
72 min

Saving Some Random Insignificant Stories
33' 66º
HASENLEITEN
Hundestrand Nord

72 min
DEIN LEBEN – MEIN LEBEN
17:30  DEIN LEBEN – MEIN LEBEN
Marko Doringer
AT 2023, 93 min., dOF

Marko Doringer’s life is marked by recurring depressions. The filmmaker asks what expectations he wants to and can have of happiness under these circumstances and looks to his partner, longtime…
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93 min
Marko Doringer
FAMILY DINNER
20:30  FAMILY DINNER
Peter Hengl
AT 2022, 97 min., OmeU

Simi, who is overweight, spends her Easter holidays in the countryside with her aunt Claudia, a prominent nutritionist. While the fifteen-year-old still hopes to lose weight through the prescribed diet,…
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97 min
Peter Hengl
No Name City
17:30  No Name City
Florian Flicker
AT 2006, 90 min., dOF

Florian Flicker’s documentary No Name City explores the tragicomic fate of the eponymous Western theme park in Lower Austria that proved to be a pipe dream. Viktoria Schmid’s W O…
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90 min
Florian Flicker
W O W (Kodak)
17:30  W O W (Kodak)
Viktoria Schmid
AT 2018, 2 min., kein Dialog

Florian Flicker’s documentary No Name City explores the tragicomic fate of the eponymous Western theme park in Lower Austria that proved to be a pipe dream. Viktoria Schmid’s W O…

2 min
Viktoria Schmid
Das finstere Tal
20:00  Das finstere Tal
Andreas Prochaska
AT 2014, 115 min., OmeU

The Western comes to Austria. In Andreas Prochaska’s impressive genre success Das finstere Tal, a stranger rides into a small town and it’s clear he has a score to settle.…
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115 min
Andreas Prochaska
Das Nachtlokal zum Silbermond
23:00  Das Nachtlokal zum Silbermond
Wolfgang Glück
AT 1959, 87 min., dOF

A handful of wannabe dancers from Europe dream of making it big. The group tries their luck in the Middle East—mediated by an agency—and runs into the shady Magali (Marina…
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87 min
Wolfgang Glück