{"id":79004,"date":"2022-02-11T13:54:30","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T12:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diagonale.at\/?page_id=79004"},"modified":"2022-02-11T14:08:02","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T13:08:02","slug":"eroeffnungsfilm22-sonne","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.diagonale.at\/en\/eroeffnungsfilm22-sonne\/","title":{"rendered":"SONNE<\/i> by Kurdwin Ayub opens the Diagonale\u201922"},"content":{"rendered":"

Opening sponsor:
\nAVL Cultural Foundation<\/p>\n

Co sponsors:
\nAlmert & Partner
\nEnergie Steiermark<\/p>\n

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SONNE, Kurdwin Ayub \u00a9 Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion<\/p><\/div>\n
The Diagonale is pleased to announce that the Festival of Austrian Film will open on April 5 with Kurdwin Ayub\u2019s feature film SONNE<\/em> (AT 2022). After its world premiere at the Berlinale Encounters section, the Austrian premiere of the film produced by Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion will be shown on Austria\u2019s largest temporary screen \u2013 in the Helmut List Halle. Kurdwin Ayub\u2019s SONNE<\/em> is an unprecedented film of its generation, urgently relevant in terms of form and content, the ironic deconstruction of all authenticity. Simultaneous to the opening screening in Graz and in collaboration with Stadtkino Filmverleih, SONNE <\/em>will be shown in selected independent film theaters all over Austria on April 5.<\/p>\n
More information on Kurdwin Ayub and SONNE<\/em> as well as information on the gala premiere of Ulrich Seidl\u2019s Rimini<\/em> (AT 2022) and the competition film F\u00fcr die Vielen \u2013 Die Arbeiterkammer Wien<\/em> (AT 2022) by Constantin Wulff can be found below.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith SONNE<\/em>, Kurdwin Ayub presents the Diagonale an exceptional opening film. Already in her beguiling music videos, ludicrous and snappy short films, and her documentary film debut Paradies! Paradies!<\/em>, Ayub demonstrated that describing the present demands extremely varied cinematic forms. In SONNE<\/em>, the filmmaker condenses her aesthetically risqu\u00e9 maneuvers, humor, and cunning linguistic sense for youth jargon to a radical feature film.<\/p>\n
SONNE<\/em> is a ray of hope \u2013 perhaps a turning point \u2013 in (recent) Austrian cinema. A feature film that has little to do with the films shown in the first 25 years of the Diagonale in Graz. SONNE<\/em> is a child of its times and brings onto the screen the aesthetics of a present day in which cinema has long had something nostalgic about it. The smartphone\u2019s portrait format and fleeting social media story\u2019s fast cuts are inscribed in Ayub\u2019s self-confidently staged pictorial world. With the characteristic up-close intimacy of her cinematic language, she expresses the confusion of her generation and our era: The protagonists Yesmin, Bella, and Nati are searching for clues in lifestyle codes between retro fashion and Kurdish military uniforms \u2013 cultural ascriptions are appropriated and rejected. SONNE<\/em> is thus a statement of a generation free of self-pity and false morals.<\/p>\n
For Kurdwin Ayub\u2019s current fans, SONNE<\/em> is certainly a first best-of, for the curious, an invitation to get to know a new signature style in Austrian film, for her critics, the obligatory next provocation \u2013 and for the Diagonale, the best opening film to look to the future after 25 years of Diagonale in Graz. We are extremely pleased to share the film with our audience!\u201d
\n\u2014\u2014\u2014 Sebastian H\u00f6glinger and Peter Schernhuber, Festival directors<\/p>\n
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Rimini, Ulrich Seidl \u00a9 Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion<\/p><\/div>\n
Gala premiere of Rimini<\/em> by Ulrich Seidl<\/strong><\/h3>\n
The day after the opening and the Austrian premiere of Kurdwin Ayub\u2019s SONNE<\/em>, for the second time, the Helmut List Halle will again become the unique setting for a prominent cinema premiere on April 6: Ulrich Seidl\u2019s long awaited new feature film Rimini<\/em>\u2019s Austrian premiere can be seen at the festival as a one-off screening following its world premiere in the competition of the Berlinale.<\/p>\n
Richie Bravo (Michael Thomas), once a celebrated hit singer, hunts for his faded fame in wintertime Rimini. Lost between permanent intoxication and concerts for bus tourists, his world begins to crumble when his adult daughter suddenly enters his life. She wants money from him, but he doesn\u2019t have any. Detailed information on the film can be found on the Berlinale website here<\/a>. Tickets for the public screening of SONNE <\/em>at Annenhof Kino, taking place parallel to the opening, as well as for the gala premiere of Rimini <\/em>in the Helmut List Halle will be available beginning March 30, 2022.<\/p>\n
Presented by \u00d61, Patronage: AVL Cultural Foundation and <\/span>RTR Fernsehfonds Austria<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n
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F\u00fcr die Vielen \u2013 Die Arbeiterkammer Wien, Constantin Wulff \u00a9 Navigator Film<\/p><\/div>\n
From the Berlinale to Graz: Constantin Wulff\u2019s F\u00fcr die Vielen \u2013 Die Arbeiterkammer Wien<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
The Diagonale will take place from April 5 to 10, 2022, marking its 25th<\/sup> appearance in Graz. In the context of the anniversary edition, also the new documentary by Constantin Wulff, who directed the festival in its first edition in Graz in 1998 together with Christine Dollhofer, will have its Austrian premiere: F\u00fcr die Vielen \u2013 Die Arbeiterkammer Wien<\/em>, filmed in direct cinema style, celebrates its world premiere in the Forum of the Berlinale and has been chosen for the competition of the Diagonale in Graz. Wulff sedately observes and accompanies the interplay of institution and society. F\u00fcr die Vielen \u2013 Die Arbeiterkammer Wien<\/em> is a precise portrait of a bureaucracy in service to solidarity, an institution as seismograph of a transforming world of work.<\/p>\n
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Kurdwin Ayub \u00a9 Diagonale\/Elsa Okazaki<\/p><\/div>\n
Film, fame, festival \u2013 Kurdwin Ayub<\/h3>\n
Just like Wulff, also Kurdwin Ayub has been affiliated with the Festival of Austrian Film for many years. Since 2011, she has been represented many times and in nearly all sections of the Diagonale competition: from the performance miniatures Adele1<\/em> (AT 2011), Katzenjammer<\/em> (AT 2011), sexy<\/em> (AT 2013), and Video1 <\/em>(AT 2014) to the animation films Die Intrige und die Archenmuscheln<\/em> (AT 2010) and Armageddon<\/em> (AT 2018) through the short feature Boomerang<\/em> (AT 2018) and the (short) documentaries Familienurlaub (<\/em>AT 2012), LOLOLOL<\/em> (AT 2020), and Paradies! Paradies!<\/em> (AT 2016).<\/p>\n
The latter \u2013<\/em> an intimate, in part bizarre and sober portrait of a generation about rooting and uprooting as the fate of a single family and simultaneous mass phenomenon of the 20th<\/sup> and 21st<\/sup> centuries \u2013<\/em> was Ayub\u2019s first long documentary, honored at the Diagonale\u201916 for best artistic cinematography: \u201cWith a great skill for observation and a talent for being at the right place at the right time, she consistently captures intimate key moments and, in doing so, also shows the courage to expose herself. An enthralling, tragicomic home movie about the pull of homesickness.\u201d (Jury statement) Like Boomerang<\/em>, Paradies! Paradies!<\/em> will be available for viewing at the Diagonale\u201922 in the In Reference series. Ayub\u2019s father can be seen in key roles in both films as well as in the current feature film SONNE<\/em>.<\/p>\n
Kurdwin Ayub was born in Iraq in 1990. She lives and works as director and screenwriter in Vienna. From 2008 to 2013 she studied painting and experimental animation film at the University of Applied Arts as well as performative art at the Academy of Fine Arts, both in Vienna.<\/p>\n
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On the opening film SONNE <\/em>by Kurdwin Ayub<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Three Viennese teens in hijabs twerk and sing a pop song. A YouTube video of it brings them overnight fame, mainly among Kurdish Muslims. Yesmin, the only one of the friends who is a Kurd, gradually begins to distance herself from her culture. Nati and Bella, on the other hand, seem fascinated by a world that is foreign to them. When the girls meet two young Kurdish patriots, the situation threatens to escalate. A film about youth between social media and self-discovery, a story about rebels.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd just as the band Tic Tac Toe broke up very dramatically, I wanted these three friends to split up with a bang\u201d, Kurdwin Ayub recently remarked in a talk with AFC \u2013 Austrian Films. The complete interview can be read here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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SONNE, <\/em><\/strong>the suffering of the young Twerkers<\/strong> \u2013 Catalogue text by Alexandra Zawia<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\u201cOh life is bigger \/ It\u2019s bigger than you.\u201d Two teenagers roll around on a bed. They\u2019re wearing hijabs. They laugh. From a cell phone, the song booms on: \u201cAnd you are not me \/ The lengths that I will go to \/ The distance in your eyes.\u201d Seductive gazes. They twerk their behinds into the camera, act like they\u2019re kissing one another. Tongue play. \u201cOh no I\u2019ve said too much \/ I set it up.\u201d They push together in a corner of the room for a selfie with a third girl in the room, who films them with a cell phone. Six sexy gazes. \u201cThat\u2019s me in the corner \/ That\u2019s me in the spotlight \/ Losing my religion.\u201d This opening scene of Kurdwin Ayub\u2019s film SONNE<\/em> already leaves no doubt: The \u201cvoice of a generation\u201d? The politically most relevant perfection of \u201cform and content\u201d? In the words of R.E.M.: \u201cConsider this the hint of the century.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Rimini<\/em> will be released on April 8, SONNE<\/em> on September 9, and F\u00fcr die Vielen \u2013 Die Arbeiterkammer Wien<\/em> on September 23, 2022 in Austrian cinemas (Stadtkino Filmverleih).<\/p>\n
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