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

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KIZ Royal 1 KIZ Royal 2 Schubertkino 1 Schubertkino 2 Annenhof Kino 6 Annenhof Kino 5 Rechbauer
Wer wir einmal sein wollten
12:00  Wer wir einmal sein wollten
Özgür Anil
Feature Film, AT 2023, 82 min., OmeU

Anna works at an acting school where the memory of who she once wanted to be—an actress—constantly catches up with her. Instead, she now wants to study law and is…
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82 min
Özgür Anil
MERMAIDS DON'T CRY
15:00  MERMAIDS DON'T CRY
Franziska Pflaum
Feature Film, 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
Heimsuchung
18:00  Heimsuchung
Achmed Abdel-Salam
Feature Film, AT 2023, 90 min., OmeU

After the death of her father, the sober alcoholic Michaela travels to her parents’ house in the countryside, where she tries to regain the trust of her daughter from whom…
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90 min
Achmed Abdel-Salam
SPARTA
21:00  SPARTA
Ulrich Seidl
Feature Film, AT/FR/DE 2022, 99 min., OmdU

After RIMINI, Ulrich Seidl’s most recent work completes his diptych about two brothers who must face long repressed truths abroad. SPARTA tells the story of Ewald, in his mid-forties, who…
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99 min
Ulrich Seidl
27 Storeys
10:30  27 Storeys
Bianca Gleissinger
Documentary Film, 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
Razzennest
14:30  Razzennest
Johannes Grenzfurthner
Feature Film, AT 2022, 81 min., eOF

In his new horror comedy, which doesn’t skimp on cringe and madness, Johannes Grenzfurthner consolidates seemingly disjointed elements to a fascinating blend. What begins as a satire of the film…
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81 min
Johannes Grenzfurthner
Kurzspielfilm 5
20:30  Kurzspielfilm Programm 5
76 min

Land der Berge
Coming Soon
Last
Das andere Ende der Straße

76 min
STAMS
14:30  STAMS
Bernhard Braunstein
Documentary Film, AT 2023, 97 min., OmeU

The road to the Olympics is not determined by talent alone, but also an iron will, discipline, and fearlessness. At the Schigymnasium Stams, a highschool focusing on winter sports, young…
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97 min
Bernhard Braunstein
ORF-Premiere Dunkle Wasser
17:30  ORF-Premiere: Dunkle Wasser (ORF-Landkrimi)
90 min

Dunkle Wasser

90 min
Im Bazar der Geschlechter – Director’s Cut
20:30  Im Bazar der Geschlechter – Director’s Cut
Sudabeh Mortezai
Documentary Film, AT 2023, 72 min., OmdU

In Iran, where body politics and sexual morality are regulated by the state, men and women find loopholes in the context of so-called temporary marriages, which confer autonomy but also…
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72 min
Sudabeh Mortezai
Innovatives Kino 6
23:00  Innovatives Kino Programm 6
85 min

Happy Doom
BEYOND FUTURE
TURTLE 3

85 min
Kurzdoku 3
10:30  Kurzdokumentarfilm Programm 3
89 min

Wankostättn
Spuren im Wald

89 min
Werkstattgespr. G. Rebic
15:00  Zur Person Werkstattgespräch: Goran Rebić
120 min

Werkstattgespräch Goran Rebić: Filmausschnitte

120 min
Goran Rebić: Kurzfilme
18:00  Zur Person Goran Rebić: Kurzfilme
73 min

Gekommen bin ich der Arbeit wegen
Domovina
During the Many Years

73 min
De Facto
21:00  De Facto
Selma Doborac
Documentary Film, AT/DE 2023, 130 min., OmeU

In tireless monologues, two actors recite testimonies and perpetrator statements from various unnamed conflicts in recent history. Without naming any reference to historical or political contexts, and detached from all…
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130 min
Selma Doborac
Wo ist Ida
15:00  Wo ist Ida
Petra Zöpnek
Documentary Film, AT/GR/IL/PT 2023, 70 min., OmeU

Ida strolls down the Donaukanal in Biedermeier dresses and hip sunglasses. At the age of fourty-four, she leaves behind her life as a housewife to follow her urge to see…
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70 min
Petra Zöpnek
Kurzspielfilm 1
18:00  Kurzspielfilm Programm 1
89 min

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

89 min
... ned, tassot, yossot ...
21:00  ... ned, tassot, yossot ...
Brigitte Weich
Documentary Film, AT 2023, 96 min., OmdU

About five years after her film, Hana, dul, sed ... (2009), filmmaker Brigitte Weich returns to North Korea to ask four women on the national football team how their lives…
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96 min
Brigitte Weich
MENUETT
10:30  MENUETT
Hans Broich
Feature Film, AT/DE 2023, 71 min., OmeU

In this adaption of Louis Paul Boon’s novel, Hans Broich ingeniously questions an individual’s interpretational sovereignty and in this way, attacks the mechanisms of patriarchy. Told is the story of…
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71 min
Hans Broich
Kurzdoku 5
20:30  Kurzdokumentarfilm Programm 5
82 min

Son of the sun
Der Weg ist nie derselbe
BESETZT – Lobau Bleibt

82 min
ATEMNOT
17:30  ATEMNOT
Käthe Kratz
Feature Film, AT 1984, 97 min., dOF

“It’s the story of two teens who are unable to feel at home in our world as it is.” Between Baumgartner Höhe and the squat, Käthe Kratz (screenplay: Peter Turrini)…
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97 min
Käthe Kratz
Staging Death + 2551.02
20:30  2551.02 – The Orgy of the Damned
90 min

Staging Death
2551.02 – The Orgy of the Damned

90 min
Casanova & Co.
23:00  Casanova & Co.
Franz Antel
Feature Film, AT/FR/IT 1977, 89 min., eOF

Venice in the eighteenth century. The embittered Giacomo Casanova (Tony Curtis), the great lover of all, has been behind bars for a long time. The courageous intervention of one of…
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89 min
Franz Antel

 

 

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