The film begins with a lament, it is winter in Central Europe, and the camera moves out from a ruined landscape to a forest, this sadly beautiful shot repeats for a while and it is interesting to wonder how it refers to the story we are about to view. Indoors at a military center, … Continue reading
Queer Austrian filmmaker Patric Chiha s last film was Brothers Of The Night a gritty fascinating documentary about a small group of young Bulgarian Roma men who barter with sex for a better life in Vienna. Now he is back with his new film ‘If It Were Love’ which also had its premiere af Berlinale … Continue reading
17 year old Jakob (Simon Frühwirth ) has just graduated high school and as it is the summer break his single-parent rather subdued father fixes him up with a temporary job at the abattoir he word at in town. The pair of them live in a isolated house in the country with Jacob’s elderly … Continue reading
Erik and Erika is the dramatization of the extraordinary life story of Austrian World Skiing Champion Erika Schinegger who relinquished her title when she finally became Erik. Born in 1948 to a farmer’s wife, as the baby had no physical signs of any genitalia, the midwife declared that she was a girl, and the family … Continue reading
This intriguing coming of age movie is set in Lanzenkirchen in Lower Austria, the home town of the writer/director Monja Art, so it is probably safe to say that some of the trials and tribulations of the teenagers involved in this story are drawn from her own life experiences. The problems that seem to vex this one … Continue reading