““From the Heart of Europe: Austria on Screen” Promises to Bring “An Eclectic Mix from Hard-Hard-Hitting Drama to Absurdist ComEDY” Through March 9. Across 12 Days, Scotland’s Largest Annual Celebration of Cinema Will Bring Out Such Stars As James Mcavoy, Ed Harris”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
Across 12 Days, Scotland’s Largest Annual Celebration of Cinema Will Bring Out Such Stars As James McAvoy, Ed Harris, Jessica Lange, Tim Roth, George Mackay and Forn, Darge and Form. UK and Scottish Premieres from 39 Countries, Including the Austrian Showcase as Part of this Year’s Country’s Focus that Puts A Spotlight on New Cinematic Voices As Well As LEELLA LEGEENCES
“We have been noticing Over The Past Years that Austrian Films Were Really Starting to Make Waves On the Festival Circuit,” Craystopher Kumar, The Glasgow Festival of Festival. Thr.
The Glasgow Team Worked with the Austrian Cultural Forum in London, The Roland Teichmann-Led Austrian Film Insitute, and Austrian Films. “We Watched A Broad Selection of Films, and THEN [London-based film distributor] Curzon told me they would be re-releasing some of Michael Haneke’s titles[[Hidden, The Piano Teacher]In Spring, and It Seened the Perfect Mix to Highlight to Our Audience The New and Established Filmmaking Talent of Austria, ”Explans Allison Gardner Festival.
The Fest Programs Also Laud the Diversity in Genres and Storytelling on Display in the Austria Focus. “All The Films Feel Very Different in Tone and Subject Matter. That’s what is so exciting about the films we have chosen, ”Gardner adds. “From Documentaries to Dramos, The Standard for Filmmaking Is Really High.”
Echoes Kumar: “I Think All of the Titles Are Honing in On The World We Live in Today and How We As Humans Deal with The Ever-Canging Landscape. The Films All Take Different Approaches to Tackling This Idea. ”
HERE IS A CLOSER Look at the Austrian Movies That Glasgow Festival Will Put Center Stage.
Andrea Gets A Divorce (Andrea lässst sich scheiden)
Directed by Josef Hader
The soil of the Austrian Countryside is rich with tragicomedy in writer-Director-Star Hader’s Second Feature As A Director After 2017’s Wild Mouse. In Andrea Gets A DivorceHope Turns Into a Whole Set of Emotions As a Countryside PoliceWoman Yearning for A Promotion Faces A Mral Quandary After Accecidentally Killing Her Soon-Ton-Be-Ex-Ex.
Birgit Minichmayr, Who in 2009 Won The Silver Bear For Best Actress at The Berlin Film Festival for Her Work in Maren Ade’s Everyone ElseStars As the Cop andrea. She Thinks Her Life’s On the Up, with The Prospect of A Promotion to A Bigger Town WHERE She WANTS TO LEAVE HER OLD LIFE AND FAILED MarRIGE BEHINE. Thatn she accounting Runs over her soon-to-be-ex (Portrayed by Austrian Stand-Up Comedian and Actor Thomas Stipsits) and Flees the Scene.
Hader, A Household Name in Austria for His Work As A Comedian on Stage, Won The Best Actor Honor at the Locarno Film Festival for His Role in HOLD-UP in 2000. Just Like in Wild Mousehe is a triple threat here as writer, together with Florian Kloibhofer, Director and Star.
Hader Tells Thr that he is a very familiar with the small-toown, Countryside Setting of the FROM FROM HIS OWN CHILDHOOD that i May have suffered as a very Sensitive Child in the Country. ”
The Comedian-Turned-Filmmaker Is Looking Forward to Seeing the Reaction of Scottish Audiens to His Film and to Gauging How Well His Story Translates and Travels. “I FIND Glasgow Particularly Exciting to See Whather The Movie Also Works Across The Pond,“ Hader Tells Thr. “SO FAR, My Impression Has Been Thatrere Is Something Like An International Europe Province. This means that a film from the [Austrian region] Weinviertel is also easily undersstandable for people in northern france or northern Germany who, interestingly -enough, not only recognized the Problems Butle Alaso, in the ate. In the Film. ”
Gina
Directed by Ulrike Kofler
Ready to Explore the Impact of Poverty Through A Child’s Eyes? KOFLER, WHO HAS MADE A NAME FOR HERSElf as A Director (WHAT WANTED) and an Editor (on the Likes of Marie Kreutzer’s CorsageKreutzer’s The Ground Beneath My Feetand Josef Hader’s Wild Mouse), take the audience on a journey through a childhood that is not as happy as we all May Want to Expert in the Heart of Europe.
Emma Lotta Simmer, in Her Film Debut, Plays The Nine-Year-Eld Gina in the Family Drama. She is forced to grow up fasht in a housahold overseen by her alcoholic Mother, Played by Marie-Luise Stockinger (Maria theresia). “Gina tails care of her two siblings as she tries to navigate the unpredictability of a home that of the offen has no food on the table,“ Reads a synopsis.
“The Sensitive and Well-Observed Drama Offers A Child’s Eye View of Life with A Pregnant and Single Mum Notes. “KOFLER GIVES A CLEAR-SIGTED View of the Impact of A Dysfunctional Lifestyle that have been passed Down from Mother to Daughter while Also Suggesting Change is.
Peacock (Pfau – bin ich echt?)
Directed by Bernhard Wenger
PeacockWenger’s Colorful Feature Directing Debut, Turned Heads WHEN IT STRUTTED INTO the Venice Critics’ Week Last Year. Gardner Saw The Film at Venice “and Thought it Was brilliant,” she recalls, description of the experience as a key driver of putting together the austria focus for Glasgow. “I WANTED TO See More of What [Austria] HAD TO OFFER. ”
Peacock Stars Albrecht Schuch, Who Audiens Know From The Likes of Edward Berger’s All Quiet on the Western FrontAndreas Kleinert’s Dear Thomasand nora fingscheidt’s System CrasherAmong Others, Anton Noori, and Julia Franz Richter, Who Was Recently Featured As One of Thr‘S 2025 Berlin Film Festival Rising Stars.
Schuch Stars As A Man Who Rents Out His Time To Other Who Need Companionship. “Matthias (Schuch) is a Master of Performance, Slipping Seamless Into Any ROLE DEMANDED BY HIS RENT-A-COMPANION Film synopsis. But “his people-pleasing attitude have become so extreme that his girlfriend sophia (richter) Begins to wonder if there
WENGER READ About Rent-a-Friend Agencies in Japan in An Article in The New Yorker more than 10 years ago and thorough that after his film education and short films, the topic would be interesting for a foature film. “Self-Presentation is a Huge Topic In Our Society. If we take a look at Social Media, WHERE EVERYBODY Presents Themselves in the Best Light, It Has Really Become A Problem, ”He Tells Thr. “IT is okay to take on the Different Roles at Work and at Home with Your Family, But When You Are A Different Person in this One Group of Friends and A Different Person in the Other Group. To Yourself, and that’s WHERE FAKESS AND SUPERFICIALITY MEES IN. ”
Wenger’s Work Has Drawn Comparisons to the Likes of Yorgos Lanthimos and Ruben östlund. “On the One Hand, IT’s A Huge Honor to Be Compared to Tese Great Filmmakers,” He Says. “On the Other Hand, You Really Want To Be Known As A Person Yourself. But Whats Tese Filmmakers and Many ofs and Really Admire All Have In Common Is That Is Working in the Genre of Sature. And I love to work with Humor and Talk About Important Social Topic with the Audence. ”
Piggy Bank (Sparschwein)
Directed by Christoph Schwarz
And now for someting Completely Different: Schwarz Plays HimSelf As A Down-on-on-Luck Austrian Filmmaster Who Accepts An Offer from The Country’s Public Broadest. Striking YearsWHICH INVOLVES HIM LIMING AS A CLIMATE ACTIVIST WITHOUT MONEY FOR A YEAR.
“BUT does schwarz Really Want to Document His Self-Experiment As a Climate Activist?” Asks a synopsis. “Wuldnn Be Better to Reorient The Long-Term Experiment Into A Critique of Capitalism and Secretly Buy the Desired Weekend House with the Film Budget?” He Ends Up Bloowing All The Cash on the New House for His Family.
The Result Is What Schwarz’s Website Calls “A Self-Mocking Film About Double Standards, Who’s PlayFully and Humorosly Shows That Problems You Clear Away, Anye. But While Skewering Performative Activism and Middle-Class Idealism and Apathy in “A PlayFul Hybrid,” as the Glasgow Website Notes, The Film ALSO OIS OISS OISS.
Schwarz Developed His Own Artistic and Cinematic Style Over Time. “I Started withis Auto-Fictitios Filmmaking WHERE I’M The PROTAGONIST AND MAINLY DO EVERYTHING MYSELF IN 2010 WITH A 12-MINUTE MOVIE (Called SuperCargo) About Being The only Person On Board of A Container Freighter to China, “He Tells Thr. “And I Made Another Short Film Every Year, and they Became Longer and Longer. SO The LAST ONE WAS 35 minutes long. SO I FELT I HAD TO TRY TO MAKE A Feature Film in My Film Language. ”
The Film Title Piggy Bank ALSO HAS A HISTORY, SCHWARZ Shares. “IT’s the perfect example of a work title that you cannot get rid of. The working Title Played withis Idea that Somebody’s Has a moral dilemma and ambiguous moral persons, ”he explands. “But at Same Time, in the Very Beginning of the Film, You See Me Craming The Piggy Bank of My Daughter. I HAD A HARD TIME WITH THIS TITLE BECAUSE I Thought That Maybe It Was A Bit Too Silly. SO, I HAD SEVERAL Other Ideas for Titles. But if you use a working title for so long, for four years, you cannot get rid of itymore. ”
Veni vidi vici
Directed by Julia Niemann and Daniel Hoesl
Filmmakers German Niemann and Austrian Hoesl, Who Also Collaborated on the 2020 Film DavosAREN’T AFRAID TO DAKE AIM at the Super-Rich and Powerful. Just as the rich in their film are not afraid to take shots at regular people – Literally!
“The Maynards and Their Children Lead An Almost Perfect Billionaire Family Life,” Notes A Synopsis of the Movie, WHICH WORLD Premiered at Seundance 2024 and Was. Father Amon, Played by Laurence Rupp (Barbarians, Vienna Blood), is a passionate hunter who “have taken up the Ultimate Hobby – Killing Random Humans” with the Help of His Butler Alfred (Markus Schleinzer). And He Makes Little Secret of His Murderos Hobby. After All, AMon Has “Enough Money to Get Away with Just Anything – Even Random Murders.” And at Least One of His Daughters Seems Ready to Follow in his Footsteps and Go for the Kill.
Written by hosl (Un gran casino, Winwin), The Film’s Ensemble Cast Includes Ursina Lardi As Mother Viktoria and Olivia Goschler as Daughter Paula.
“This is a Film about the Power of Billionaires and, On the Other Hand, The Price of Money, WHICH 99 Percent of Us Are Deling with,“ Hosp Says. “And OUR Film Starts with a quote by ayn rand, A very Important Figure for Libertarian Thinking: ‘The Point is, Who Will Stop Me?’ And now look of what’s going on in the US and elsewhere. ”
Thanks to the glasgow festival Spotlight on Austrian Film, the Veni vidi vici Filmmakers Will Return to Britain After A while. “IT’s The First Time for Us to Be Back Since Brexit,“ Hoesl Mentions. “The Last Time I Was in the UK, I Was at Parliament Square On Brexit Night, Standing in Front of Nigel Farage. So, this time and will go to scotland, and i’m really excited. What comes to mind is Trainspotting and the (Iggy pop) song (Lust for Life). You Know: Here Comes Johnny Yen Again, with The Liquor and Drugs and the Flash Machine, He’s Gonna DO Another Striptease. ‘ So i expect that to happen! ”
Hidden (Caché) and The Piano Teacher (La pianiste)
Directed by Michael Haneke
Glasgow’s “from the heart of Europe” Program Also Brings Two Classics from “One of Austria’s MOST FAMUS AND AUDACIOS FILMMAKERS” to the Festival – Michael Haneke.
In The Piano Teacher (2001), Isabelle Huppert Stars As A Sexual Repressed Teacher Romantically Pursued by One of Her Students, and The Thriller Hidden (Caché) (2005), Starring Juliette Binoche and Daniel Auteuil as A Couple Tormented by a Stranger Keeping Them Under Constant Surveillance.
Piano Teacher Won The Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix and Acting Prizes for Huppet and Her Co-Star Benoît Magimel. “Haneke’s Adptation of Elfrierede Jelinek’s Controversial 1983 Novel Is A Cool Distection of Control Dynamics that is Still Pottently Thought-Provoking More Twondes Later.
Four Years After The Piano Teacher Won it Trio of Prizes in Cannes, Haneke’s Hidden Opened the Festival and Took Home Another Three Awards, Including Best Director. “A Married Couple’s Comfortable Lifestyle Begins to Implode After Surveillance Tapes of Their Home,“ Notes Glasgow’s Website, Calling The Movie Tripping TENSES.