Marlene Hauser

A feature-length anthology film. They are known as myths, lore, and folktales. Created to give logic to mankind’s darkest fears, these stories laid the foundation for what we now know as the horror genre.

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Best friends, a special day, one night that gets out of control. It’s the end of term. Mona celebrates the beginning of the holidays with her friends Lisa, Joana and Paul and lots of beer at the beach. Mona’s new boyfriend is missing in their quartet. He has to work as a civil servant at the Red Cross until midnight. Later they want to meet at the Open-Air. The others from their crew are already at the festival. Especially Emil and his unavoidable shadow Chin are by now partying hard as the first band enters the stage. They are going to drink away their school stress. That’s the plan. But Mona’s start to the holidays goes differently than planned.

As part of an unusual farewell ritual, two siblings end up at a Chinese restaurant. Both feel guilty after the recent death of their mother and find it difficult to broach the subject. At another table a father improves his daughter’s homework, at the next a date goes wrong, and somewhere in between, the server’s collar bursts. Though the tables are close together, the siblings hardly notice the little dramas taking place.

The Graz chief investigator Sascha Bergmann and his colleague Eva Merz from the Spusi try to combine the official with the romantic, but unfortunately a routine case in the tranquil East Styrian hill country unexpectedly degenerates into work: What initially looks like the suicide of a drunk turns out to be poorly disguised murder! This in turn calls Bergmann's partner Sandra Mohr onto the scene, who puts herself in danger in her investigative zeal.

A fictional account of one year in the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. On Christmas Eve 1877, Elisabeth, once idolized for her beauty, turns 40 and is officially deemed an old woman; she starts trying to maintain her public image.

On a sunny afternoon spent on the shores of the river Danube, Andi and Lena are getting closer to each other. But as Lena receives some bad news, she finds it difficult to open up to Andi. Left feeling insecure by her need to deal with her problems on her own, Andi decides to confront her with his feelings for her.

Breakthroughs don’t come easy. Especially for up-and-coming actress Anna. Rejected from her most recent audition, Anna returns home to find that her dad has already made other plans for her life. Her last chance: playing the victim in training exercises for the local fire department. Whether she is rescued from car wrecks or placed under toppled trees, Anna gives it everything she’s got, because a job at the local bank seems utterly unthinkable.

Young women, Austrian style. Yesmin is Kurdish and wears a headscarf. She shoots a cheeky burqa video with Bella and Nati which makes the trio famous in the Muslim community. Controversy and alienation ensue. Immediate, exuberantly introverted cinema.

During a joint operation by Czech and Austrian police officers against an illegal rave party in the border forest, young Austrian policewoman Johanna tragically dies and a Czech drug dealer named Sicilian disappears mysteriously. A rookie cop refuses to let the killer of his colleague go unpunished.

Die Vermieterin

Places of longing loaded with expectations are usually only of a snowball throw away from the next disappointment. And on Austrian slopes the disappointments occur in the interpersonal realm. Bernhard Wenger stages his latest film as a painfully realistic, but also humorous, episodic mockumentary captured by weather cameras.

Its summer and Yasmin spends her days at her family’s house in the countryside. Together with her boyfriend and his children, she goes on trips to the lake, life seems carefree. But it soon becomes clear that tensions are smoldering under the shimmering summer heat: what begins as an atmospherically narrated family drama, increasingly slides into the surreal.

Rural policewoman Andrea wants to end her marriage and become a detective inspector in the city. After a birthday party, her drunken soon-to-be ex-husband runs out in front of her car. In a state of shock, Andrea commits a hit-and-run.

Gifted with supernatural abilities, Lucia numbs herself with just about anything to find peace. After a night of partying she wakes up at a hospital - changed. Now she literally has to face her demons to find the family she always wanted.