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

Film Program | Films A-Z | Directors

 

KIZ Royal 1 KIZ Royal 2 Schubertkino 1 Schubertkino 2 Annenhof Kino 6 Annenhof Kino 5 Rechbauer
Kurzspielfilm 2
15:00  Kurzspielfilm Programm 2
85 min

LUFT
Aufnahmen einer Wetterkamera
Applaus
HECKSPOILER – Maurice
Stier

85 min
18:15
FEMINISM WTF
18:15  FEMINISM WTF
Katharina Mückstein
Documentary Film, AT 2023, 96 min., OmeU

Katharina Mückstein asks, “What will ‘feminism’ have achieved in a hundred years?” Her conversation partners laugh, look shyly, speak about radical new plans. A cinematic dialogue that opens a space…
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96 min
Katharina Mückstein
Die Vermieterin
21:00  Die Vermieterin
Sebastian Brauneis
Feature Film, AT 2023, 102 min., OmeU

Precarity meets high snobiety against the backdrop of the Austrian housing market, guided by karma, fate, and financial possibilities, and engineered by a pseudo-bourgeois con man and a rich but…
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102 min
Sebastian Brauneis
I AM HERE!
13:00  I AM HERE!
Ludwig Wüst
Feature Film, 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
ABC
15:30  ABC
Ludwig Wüst
Feature Film, AT 2023, 78 min., dOF

ABC is a journey through twenty-five years of film work, a visual alphabet of sorts that tells of thematic diversity in the three primary colors. A tells of Ludwig Wüst’s…
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78 min
Ludwig Wüst
Razzennest
18:00  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
Wo ist Ida
20:30  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
Unrecht und Widerstand
14:30  Unrecht und Widerstand
Peter Nestler
Documentary Film, DE/AT 2022, 113 min., dOF

Peter Nestler once again deals with the crimes against Sinti and Roma during and as a result of World War II. In doing so, he avoids everything that would prevent…
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113 min
Peter Nestler
Archiv der Zukunft
17:30  Archiv der Zukunft
Joerg Burger
Documentary Film, AT 2023, 92 min., dOF

At the Natural History Museum in Vienna, everything that is found on earth and in outer space and that humans can get their hands on, is collected, archived, and studied…
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92 min
Joerg Burger
Emile – Erinnerungen eines Vertriebenen
20:30  Emile – Erinnerungen eines Vertriebenen
Rainer Frimmel
Documentary Film, AT 2023, 86 min., OmeU

Emile Zuckerkandl jotted down in his diary, “I write it down, so that I can remember it later.” Eighty years later, his memories are vivid and clear when he talks…
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86 min
Rainer Frimmel
Frauen von G.
11:00  Frauen von G.
Bernhard Frankfurter
Documentary Film, AT 1977, 26 min., dOF

A documentary duo from the working world with which Bernhard Frankfurter displays his keen sense for social imbalances and the transformation of the Austrian industrial landscape: first, the women in…
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26 min
Bernhard Frankfurter
Erz Schmerz
11:00  Erz Schmerz
Bernhard Frankfurter
Documentary Film, AT 1984, 51 min., dOF

A documentary duo from the working world with which Bernhard Frankfurter displays his keen sense for social imbalances and the transformation of the Austrian industrial landscape: first, the women in…

51 min
Bernhard Frankfurter
Kameni Grad – Stadt aus Stein
15:00  Kameni Grad – Stadt aus Stein
Reinhard Jud
Documentary Film, AT 1994, 76 min., dOF

Vienna in summer of 1994, Reinhard Jud accompanies a handful of teens shortly before and during the summer holidays to their workplaces, classrooms, their favorite clubs and bars, parks, and…
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76 min
Reinhard Jud
LE FORMICHE DI MIDA
18:00  LE FORMICHE DI MIDA
Edgar Honetschläger
Innovative Cinema, 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
Kurzdoku 2
11:00  Kurzdokumentarfilm Programm 2
72 min

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

72 min
Der Fuchs
14:00  Der Fuchs
Adrian Goiginger
Feature Film, DE/AT 2022, 118 min., OmeU

Following his debut, Die beste aller Welten, in his third feature film Adrian Goiginger again turns to
his own family tree. This time he takes on the special relationship between his…
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118 min
Adrian Goiginger
BREAKING THE ICE
17:30  BREAKING THE ICE
Clara Stern
Feature Film, AT 2022, 102 min., OmeU

Mira, the ice hockey team’s strong-willed, taciturn captain, is a stickler for the rules. When a new player joins, the competition between the two is as great as their mutual…
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102 min
Clara Stern
MUTZENBACHER
20:30  MUTZENBACHER
Ruth Beckermann
Documentary Film, AT 2022, 101 min., OmeU

Men sitting on a casting-couch follow the director’s instructions to recite excerpts from the controversial classic of erotic literature, “Josefine Mutzenbacher oder Die Geschichte einer Wienerischen Dirne.” In an ironic…
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101 min
Ruth Beckermann
Heimsuchung
23:00  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
... ned, tassot, yossot ...
10:30  ... 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
LASS MICH FLIEGEN
14:30  LASS MICH FLIEGEN
Evelyne Faye
Documentary Film, AT 2022, 80 min., 24.03. OmeU / 26.03. dOF

LASS MICH FLIEGEN accompanies four young people who shape their lives according to their own wishes, take a stand for their right to work, marriage, children, and political participation and…
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80 min
Evelyne Faye
Kurzdoku 1
18:00  Kurzdokumentarfilm Programm 1
67 min

Wir sind alle Kanaken
Reihe 6
My Sleepless Friends

67 min
STERNE UNTER DER STADT
21:00  STERNE UNTER DER STADT
Chris Raiber
Feature Film, AT 2022, 100 min., dOF

On his tenth birthday, Alexander promises that he will never fall in love. When he meets the ravishing Caro as an adult, his former promise plunges him into great distress,…
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100 min
Chris Raiber
Am Rande der Welt
11:00  Am Rande der Welt
Goran Rebić
Documentary Film, AT 1992, 90 min., OmdU

Am Rande der Welt was filmed in Tbilissi (Tiflis), Georgia, in 1991, the year of its independence; and twelve months later, in 1992, the year of its civil war. The…
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90 min
Goran Rebić
Frankreich, wir kommen!
15:00  Frankreich, wir kommen!
Michael Glawogger
Documentary Film, AT 1999, 80 min., OmeU

A fabulous soccer double feature. Michael Glawogger’s comical documentary Frankreich, wir kommen! follows the short stint of Austria’s team at the soccer world cup in France by combining the perspectives…
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80 min
Michael Glawogger
FINALE + Hana, dul, sed ..
17:30  FINALE: Finale + Hana, dul, sed
102 min

FINALE
Hana, dul, sed ...

102 min
On the Road to Hollywood
20:30  On the Road to Hollywood
Bernhard Frankfurter
Documentary Film, AT 1982, 101 min., dOF

On the tracks of history, survival, and cinema. Vienna, Prague, London, New York, Hollywood: cinematic detective work that traces the paths of the directors, authors, and actors forced to emigrate…
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101 min
Bernhard Frankfurter
Gefahr: Diabolik!
23:00  Gefahr: Diabolik!
Mario Bava
Feature Film, IT/FR 1968, 105 min., eOF

Politics and police tremble in his presence: super villain Diabolik (John Phillip Law) is always one step ahead of the law when he relieves banks of millions and filthy rich…
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105 min
Mario Bava

 

 

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