| BY ULRICH SEIDL |
| Richie Bravo, once upon a time a successful pop star, chases after his faded fame in wintry Rimini. Trapped between permanent intoxication and concerts for busloads of tourists, his world starts to collapse when his adult daughter breaks into his life. She demands money from him that he doesn’t have. |
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Austria / France / Germany
114 min
World Sales: Coproduction Office
International press: Viviana Andriani
German press: Silvia Müller
Screenings
Feb 11 22:00 Berlinale Palast Premiere
Feb 12 11:30 CinemaxX 9 (Industry)
Feb 12 18:00 Friedrichstadt-Palast
Feb 13 15:00 Cubix 9
Feb 18 18:00 Berlinale Palast
Press
Feb 10 18:00 CinemaxX 1, 2, 4, 5-7, 9
Market
Feb 12 11:00 Virtual Cinema Competition |
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| by Gastón Solnicki |
| Vienna, 2019 – the end of an era. The smoking ban in public places means that a part of Kaffeehaus culture has disappeared. Angeliki chooses to buy an apartment with help from her interior designer friend, Carmen but she seems to have something against all of them. A Journey from Vienna to Malaga, via salt flats overcast by mysterious shadows. A homage to the Austrian capital and the bygone splendour in ordinary things. |
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Austria / Argentina
81 min
Festival booking: Austrian Films
Press: Gloria Zerbinati
Screenings
Feb 14 18:00 CinemaxX 7 Premiere
Feb 14 18:35 Cubix 1 (Industry)
Feb 15 15:00 Cubix 7
Feb 18 21:00 CinemaxX 6 & 7
Feb 20 12:00 Akademie der Künste
Press
Feb 13 09:30 CinemaxX 5
Feb 13 11:30 CinemaxX 8
Feb 15 12:00 CinemaxX 9
Feb 16 09:30 CinemaxX 5
Market
Feb 15 16:40 Virtual Cinema Encounters
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| by Ruth Beckermann |
With an ad in a newspaper, Ruth Beckermann announces a casting call for a film based on a well-known pornographic text. The film, MUTZENBACHER, sees a hundred men confronted with excerpts from the novel, “Josefine Mutzenbacher or The Story of a Viennese Whore”, in an age when sex is more ubiquitous than ever, and yet at same time is met with a highly charged moral environment.
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Austria
100 min
Festival booking: Austrian Films
International Press: Mirjam Wiekenkamp
German Press: Dagny Kleber
Screenings
Feb 13 18:00 CinemaxX 7 Premiere
Feb 13 19:00 Cubix 2 (Industry)
Feb 14 15:00 Cubix 7
Feb 17 11:00 CinemaxX 6 & 7
Feb 19 21:00 Akademie der Künste
Press
Feb 12 09:30 CinemaxX 3
Feb 12 15:30 CinemaxX 9
Feb 15 09:30 CinemaxX 4
Feb 16 14:30 CinemaxX 5
Market
Feb 15 11:15 Virtual Cinema Encounters |
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| By Kurdwin Ayub |
| Three teenage girls from Vienna twerk in hijab and sing a pop song. A YouTube video of it makes them famous overnight, especially among Kurdish Muslims. Yesmin, the only one of the friends who is Kurdish herself, begins to distance herself more and more from her culture. Nati and Bella, on the other hand, seem fascinated by a world that is strange to them. When the girls meet two young Kurdish patriots, the situation threatens to escalate. A film about young people caught between social media and self-discovery, a story of rebellious young women. |
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Austria
87 min
World Sales: Cercamon
Press: Marijana Harder
Screenings
Feb 12 21:30 CinemaxX 7 Premiere
Feb 13 09:00 Cubix 3 (Industry)
Feb 13 12:00 Cubix 7
Feb 17 18:00 CinemaxX 6 & 7
Feb 20 15:00 Akademie der Künste
Press
Feb 11 14:30 CinemaxX 9
Feb 11 21:30 CinemaxX 4
Feb 12 18:15 CinemaxX 4
Feb 13 15:00 CinemaxX 9
Market
Feb 09 11:00 Virtual Cinema 10
Feb 10 16:30 Virtual Cinema Encounters |
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| by Constantin Wulff |
| In Austria, the Chambers of Labour (AK), as the official legal representative for employees, are the daily point of contact for people who are fighting for their rights within the workplace. In direct cinema, the documentary For The Many - The Vienna Chamber of Labour shows this unique institution at a key moment - the preparations for their 100 year anniversary. The various insights highlight the daily actions of the AK team and how the tasks of the Chambers of Labour have changed over time due to digitalization and globalization. A portrait of an institution caught between a rich past and an uncertain future due to the mutations of our economy. |
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Austria
120 min
World Sales: Cercamon
Press: Florence Alexandre & Camille Coutte
Screenings
Feb 11 17:30 Delphi Premiere
Feb 12 09:15 Cubix 4 (Industry)
Feb 12 17:30 Akademie der Künste
Feb 18 21:00 BrotfabrikKino
Feb 19 11:00 Kino Arsenal 1
Feb 20 12:00 Delphi
Press
Feb 10 16:00 CinemaxX 10
Market
Feb 11 11:15 Virtual Cinema Forum
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| Another Coin for the Merry-Go-Round |
by Hannes Starz
Feb 10 13:00 Virtual Cinema 6
Feb 16 09:45 Virtual Cinema 3
EastWest Filmdistribution |
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| LUZIFER |
by Peter Brunner
Feb 11 14:00 Virtual Cinema 26
Film Republic |
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| RUBIKON |
by Leni Lauritsch
Feb 11 10:45 Virtual Cinema 11
Feb 14 16:15 Virtual Cinema 8
The Playmaker |
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| A Boy's Life |
| by Christian Krönes, Florian Weigensamer, Christian Kermer |
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| Corsage |
| by Marie Kreutzer |
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| Matter Out of Place |
| by Nikolaus Geyrhalter |
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| SERVIAM – I will serve |
| by Ruth Mader |
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