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GERMAN SHORT FILMS AT VIENNA 2023

Festivals

20th Vienna Shorts – International Short Film Festival (1-6 June 2023)

International Competition – Animation Avantgarde

INTRO by Anne Isensee

THE MASTER OF THE SWAMPS by Sasha Svirsky

MARIUPOL. A HUNDRED NIGHTS by Sofiia Melnyk (UA/DE)

 

International Competition – Fiction & Documentary

AND ME, I’M DANCING TOO by Mohammad Valizadegan (IR/DE/CZ, PakFilm)

ARIBADA by Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau, Natalia Escobar (DE/CO)

LAKE OF FIRE by Neozoon

WAKING UP IN SILENCE by Daniel Asadi Faezi, Mila Zhluktenko

A WOMAN IN MAKUENI (MWANAMKE MAKUENI) by Daria Belova, Valeri Aluskina (Faktura Film)

 

Austrian Competition

CATCHING BIRDS (MISE À NU) by Simon Maria Kubiena, Lea Marie Lembke (DE/FR, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg)

NEVER COME BACK by Assaf Gruber (AT/DE)

RECORDINGS OF A WEATHER CAMERA (AUFNAHMEN EINER WETTERKAMERA) by Bernhard Wenger (AT/DE)

TELL ME SOMETHING NICE by Amina Rosa Krami, Nola Anwar (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg)

THIN ICE (DÜNNES EIS) by Simon Dallaserra

VIEWING (BESICHTIGUNG) by Jan Soldat (AT/DE)

 

Muvi – Austrian Music Video Competition

CERULEAN EYES – GEMILLE by Julian Dieterich, Moresome, Paul Scheufler (AT/DE)

OPERATION SCHÖNHEIT – CHRIS IMLER by Dagmar Schürrer (DE/AT)

 

Opening Program

HAPPY REBIRTH by Bjørn Melhus

 

2 out of 20

REDEMPTION by Miguel Gomez (DE/FR/IT/PT, Komplizen Film)

 

Focus

EINUNDZWANZIG – JAN ROTH by Martin Eichhorn, Daniel Spindler (Sinnbus)

REPORTS FROM THE VOID by Martin Prinoth, Martina Mahlknecht (TÒSU Film)

THEY WANTED TO BE LOVED by Bernhard Hetzenauer (AT/DE/MX)

 

Hi, It’s AI!

BACKFLIP by Nikita Diakur (DE/FR)

HYSTERESIS by Robert Seidel

MACHINES OF LOVING GRACE by Viktor Schimpf (University of Television and Film Munich HFF)

 

Climate Crisis

HUMAN NATURE (NATUREZA HUMANA) by Mónica Lima (PT/DE, New Matter Films, DFFB)

 

Queer Identity

THE GARDEN OF FAUNS (EL JARDÍN DE LOS FAUNOS) by Pol Merchan

 

Last Generation

OLD AGE by Anna-Maria Dutoit (DE/PT)

THE WAITING by Volker Schlecht (mobyDOK)

 

Female Identity

LAMENTO by Binha Haase

 

The New Nuclear Age

MARINE TARGET by Lukas Marxt (AT/DE)

SUN UNDER GROUND (SONNE UNTER TAGE) by Mareike Bernien, Alex Gerbaulet (pong film)

 

The State, a Monster

LAND OF MOUNTAINS (LAND DER BERGE) by Olga Kosanović (AT/DE)

MAKE OR BREAK (BIEGEN & BRECHEN) by Falk Schuster, Mike Plitt (mobyDOK)

THE NEWT CONGRESS (DER MOLCHKONGRESS) by Matthias Sahli, Immanuel Esser (CH/DE)

 

Human Rights

FIFTEEN MINUTES (FÜNFZEHN MINUTEN) by Sejad Ademaj (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg)

 

Late Night

THE ACT OF DYING by Jan Soldat (AT/DE)

THE CANNOLI BROTHERS by Ethan Folk, Ty Wardwell (Buttermilk Films)

DAY DREAM – APASHE FEAT. SPLITBREED by Hanna Seidel

HUNGARIAN TANGO by Pina Brutal

KLIMAX by Bea Hoeller (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg)

MUSE by Sylvia Borges

ONE DRIP TWO DRIP – DORNIKA by Dornika Kazerani

PUSSY LOVE by Linda Krauss (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg)

SORRY I AM LATE I WAS MASTURBATING by Alena Shevchenko

 

Festival Hits

THE KIDNAPPING OF THE BRIDE by Sophia Mocorrea (Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF)

 

Best of the Fests

STAGING DEATH by Jan Soldat (DE/AT)

 

Children

CAT (KATZE) by Julia Ocker (Studio FILM BILDER)

HAYAT JUMPS (HAYAT SPRINGT) by Miriam Goeze (University of Television and Film Munich HFF)

I’M NOT AFRAID! (ICH HABE KEINE ANGST!) by Marita Mayer (DE/NO, Fabian&Fred)

PRINCESS AUBERGINE (PRINZESSIN AUBERGINE) by Dina Velikovskaya (CINE-LITTE Productions, SMPL Films)

SEE YOU TOMORROW (BIS MORGEN) by Kevin Biele (ifs köln)

SOMNI by Sonja Rohleder (Talking Animals)

SQUIRREL (EICHHÖRNCHEN) by Julia Ocker (Studio FILM BILDER)

T-REX by Julia Ocker (Studio FILM BILDER)

TIGER by Julia Ocker (Studio FILM BILDER)

 

Young People

AND ME, I’M DANCING TOO by Mohammad Valizadegan (IR/DE/CZ, PakFilm)

 

Young Curators

FEST by Nikita Diakur

SERIAL PARALLELS by Max Hattler (DE/HK)

VIRTUOSO VIRTUAL (VIRTUOS VIRTUELL) by Maja Oschmann, Thomas Stellmach