Los Feliz - Diagonale

Press Kit
’16
Los Feliz
Contact
Press Office
Franz Jud
T +43 (1) 595 45 56–21
M +43 664 834 28 80
Matthias K. Heschl
STUDIO 1f.
M +43 699 144 22 578
Edith Huemer
T +43 (1) 595 45 56–18
M +43 660 844 32 34
Samirad Saad
T +43 (1) 595 45 56–18
[email protected]
Vienna
Rauhensteingasse 5/5
1010 Vienna
T +43 (1) 595 45 56
F +43 (1) 595 45 56 –10
Graz
c/o Hotel Weitzer
Grieskai 12
8020 Graz
T +43 (316) 822 818
F +43 (316) 822 818–10
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New at the Diagonale
Under the new leadership of Sebastian Höglinger and Peter Schernhuber, the Diagonale
has experienced a contemporary update. At the same time, it remains a mastermind and
instigator of Austrian cinema. The next festival will take place from March 8–13, 2016, and
this year, too, will show the “best-of” contemporary Austrian filmmaking. Based on a
functioning festival for both the film industry and the audience, the Diagonale’16
nonetheless offers numerous innovations.
With Spotlight on, the Diagonale highlights distinctive personal styles in Austrian
filmmaking, and also expands its focus: honored of late are not only directors, but also
producers, editors, cinema operators, and critics, among others. As a starting note,
Spotlight on will be dedicated to the portfolio of film producer Gabriele Kranzelbinder.
The second new festival area, In Reference, dares the literal gaze at the big picture. In the
process, Austrian cinema enters into a cinematic dialogue with itself and with selected
international positions—reacting, interacting, and commenting.
Peter Schernhuber and Sebastian Höglinger
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New at the Diagonale
The newly devised Austria Film Meeting, which this year has committed itself especially
to practical strategies and methods for establishing diversity and equality, presents itself
transnationally, and inclusive of all genders and generations. In the combination of
practice and theory, the exchange across the entire industry not only flows into a public
discussion, but is also aired for the first time in the film program.
The parties and concerts of #DurchDieNacht extend an invitation to celebrate wildly at
familiar and newly discovered sites throughout Graz. Around the Kunsthaus Graz, the
Diagonale moves into several locations in the immediate surroundings, which together
form the Diagonale Festival District: from the Haus der Architektur to the specially set up
Bar 8020 in Hotel Mariahilf through to the Kunsthauscafé.
In addition to the innovations in the program, the Diagonale’16’s fresh new appearance
also draws attention. At the center of the new corporate design by the renowned and
multiple prize-winning graphic design studio, Studio Es, around the graphic designer
Verena Panholzer, is a shimmering “D,” which opposes lines, rebels against them. Lines,
which trace a field of the video signal, stir connotations of the Austrian flag, and in doing
so, brush it against the grain.
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The program in figures
On six days, the Diagonale’16 presents a total of 158 films and videos in the context of 130
screenings in four festival cinemas. The competition includes 103 films and was compiled
from a total of 512 current submissions in all lengths and genres: feature films, full length
documentaries, but also short and experimental films and videos. Of the films, 68 celebrate
their premiere in Graz in the context of the Diagonale’16, 42 of them world premieres.
As a scheduled part of the competition, the Year’s Retrospective gathers 8 full-length
feature and documentary films already screened in the past year in Austrian cinemas. The
program area Spectrum will show an international co-production with a minor Austrian
part outside of the competition. Additionally, 3 other productions will be screened that are
not part of the competition.
Maikäfer flieg
“Our concern is to draw red lines through the program and allow
contemporary Austrian filmmaking to communicate as well as possible
with the accompanying program.” Sebastian Höglinger and Peter Schernhuber
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Film Overview
Feature Films
Agonie by David Clay Diaz — Austrian Premiere
Beautiful Girl by Dominik Hartl — Year’s Retrospective
Der Blunzenkönig by Leo Maria Bauer — Year’s Retrospective
Chucks by Sabine Hiebler und Gerhard Ertl — Year’s Retrospective
Drachenjungfrau by Catalina Molina — World Premiere,
ORF Premiere, Out of Competition
Einer von uns /One of Us by Stephan Richter — Year’s Retrospective
ENDZEIT (Folgen 1–7) by Anna Groos und Jan Groos — Out of Competition
Los Feliz by Edgar Honetschläger
Geschwister / Siblings by Markus Mörth — World Premiere
Die Geträumten / The Dreamed Ones by Ruth Beckermann —
Austrian Premiere, Ö1 Special
Hannas schlafende Hunde / Hanna’s Sleeping Dogs by Andreas Gruber — World Premiere
History of Now by Nadiv Molcho — Austrian Premiere
Im Spinnwebhaus by Mara Eibl-Eibesfeldt — Austrian Premiere
JACK by Elisabeth Scharang — Year’s Retrospective
Jeder der fällt hat Flügel / Thos Who Fall Have Wings by Peter Brunner —
Austrian Premiere
Maikäfer flieg by Mirjam Unger — World Premiere, Opening Film
Planet Ottakring by Michi Riebl — Year’s Retrospective
Thank You for Bombing by Barbara Eder — Austrian Premiere
WINWIN by Daniel Hoesl — Austrian Premiere
WINWIN
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Documentaries
A Good American by Friedrich Moser — Austrian Premiere
Aus dem Nichts / Out of the Void by Angela Summereder
Brüder der Nacht / Brothers of the Night by Patric Chiha — Austrian Premiere
Desert Kids by Michael Pfeifenberger — World Premiere
FEMME BRUTAL by Liesa Kovacs und Nick Prokesch
FtWTF – Female to What The Fuck by Katharina Lampert und Cordula Thym
Future Baby by Maria Arlamovsky — Austrian Premiere
Girls Don’t Fly by Monika Grassl — Austrian Premiere
Helmut Berger, Actor by Andreas Horvath — Austrian Premiere
hildegart oder projekt: superwoman by Barbara Caspar
Holz Erde Fleisch / Three Farmers and a Son by Sigmund Steiner — World Premiere
Jedes Jahr Nie Wieder by Paul Buchinger und David Pichler
Kinders by den Riahi Brothers — World Premiere
Korida by Siniša Vidović — Austrian Premiere
Lampedusa im Winter by Jakob Brossmann — Year’s Retrospective
Last Shelter by Gerald Igor Hauzenberger — Year’s Retrospective
Paradies! Paradies! / Paradise! Paradise! by Kurdwin Ayub — World Premiere
Shops Around the Corner by Jörg Kalt — World Premiere
Those Shocking Shaking Days by Selma Doborac — World Premiere
Whatever Happened to Gelitin by Angela Christlieb — World Premiere
Der zornige Buddha / The Angry Buddha by Stefan Ludwig — World Premiere
Brothers of the Night
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Short Feature Films
Alles wird gut by Patrick Vollrath — Out of Competition
Auf Wiedersehen Schönbrunn by Aleksey Lapin — World Premiere
Boat People by Paul Meschùh — Austrian Premiere
Esiod 2015 by Clemens by Wedemeyer — Austrian Premiere
For Whom I Might Die by Levin Peter — World Premiere
Fragmente einer Trauerarbeit by Patrick Holzapfel — World Premiere
Henry by Philipp Fussenegger — Austrian Premiere
Die Hochzeit by Sebastian Mayr — World Premiere
Die Last der Erinnerung by Albert Meisl — Austrian Premiere
Lonora – Eine Seifenoper by Sabine Koder — Austrian Premiere
Las Meninas by Dániel Béres — Austrian Premiere
RAISA by Pavel Cuzuioc — Austrian Premiere
Rhythmus 59 by Aleksey Lapin und Markus Zizenbacher — World Premiere
Thumb by Moritz S. Binder — World Premiere, Spectrum
Unmensch by Jasmin Baumgartner — Austrian Premiere
Wald der Echos by Maria Luz Olivares Capelle — World Premiere
Unmensch
Zuhause ist kein Ort
Short Documentaries
#schulausflug by Wolf-Maximilian Liebich — World Premiere
15 Jahre und keine Antwort by Gita Ferlin
Auf Augenhöhe mit dem Teufel by Alexander Naringbauer — World Premiere
Crimea –The Emperor’s Dream by Daniel Dlouhy — World Premiere
Eigensinn und Ansichtssachen
by Miriam Raggam und Brigitta Freigassner — World Premiere
Kopie aus dem Bundesarchiv by Fridolin Schönwiese — World Premiere
Leuchtkraft by Clara Stern und Johannes Höß
MARIA LASSNIG: Es ist die Kunst, jaja ... by Sepp Dreissinger und Heike Schäfer
Murl by Manuel Knoflach und Felix Sebastian Huber
The Sea You Have to Love by Patrick Wally — World Premiere
Sofern Real by Miriam Bajtala — World Premiere
Supercargo by Christoph Schwarz und Peter Moosgaard
Zuhause ist kein Ort by Clara Trischler — Austrian Premiere
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Innovative Cinema: Feature Film
heimatfilm by Ludwig Wüst — World Premiere
heimatfilm
Innovative Cinema: Short Films
A Subsequent Fulfilment of a Pre-Historic Wish by Johannes Gierlinger
Atlantic35 by Manfred Schwaba — World Premiere
Der beste Weg by Angelika Herta — Austrian Premiere
Capital Cuba by Johann Lurf Continue (Chapter 20–24) by Jessyca R. Hauser
Dance Dinner & Doom Dog by Lisa Kortschak — World Premiere
distortion by Lydia Nsiah — World Premiere
Ein Raum mit Bildern von Provinzen by Cana Bilir-Meier — Austrian Premiere
EXOMOON by Gudrun Krebitz — World Premiere
The Exquisite Corpus by Peter Tscherkassky
der fenstersturz einer küchenkredenz aus dem 4. stock by G.R.A.M. — World Premiere
Fijuka – Ca Ca Caravan by Marie-Thérèse Zumtobel und Anselm Hartmann
The French Road, Detroit MI by Arthur Summereder — World Premiere
G_Girls (Ginny / Gracie) by Susi Jirkuff
Ghost Copy by Christiana Perschon — World Premiere
Herbst by Meinhard Rauchensteiner — Austrian Premiere
Hidden Tracks by Karin Fisslthaler
In, Over & Out by Sebastian Brameshuber
In Rom by Friedl vom Gröller
Josef – Täterprofil meines Vaters by Antoinette Zwirchmayr
Der längste Kuss – Teil 1 by Hubert Sielecki und Gerhard Rühm — World Premiere
Manchmal also denkt man, weil es sich bewährt hat. Wittgensteins Haus
by Lotte Schreiber — World Premiere
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Ghost Copy
Atlantic35
Maschile – Roma by Friedl vom Gröller
Mutter von Mutter by Amina Handke — World Premiere
NAVIGATOR by Björn Kämmerer — Austrian Premiere
not even nothing can be free of ghosts by Rainer Kohlberger — Austrian Premiere
Perlenmeere by Katrina Daschner — World Premiere
Retrograde in Circles by İpek Hamzaoğlu
El Ritual del Color by Maria Luz Olivares Capelle
SELF by Claudia Larcher
Spot (an Attwenger Trilogy) by Siegfried A. Fruhauf
These Walls Were Built by Donald Judd (One Chapter, in Texas) by Sasha Pirker
TRAILER by Lotte Schreiber und Sasha Pirker — World Premiere, Trailer Diagonale’16
UNCANNY VALLEY by Paul Wenninger
Video_67b by dextro.org — World Premiere
Vintage Print by Siegfried A. Fruhauf
Wunderschön und ruhig gelegen by Lukas Marxt und Jakub Vrba — World Premiere
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Spotlight on: Gabriele Kranzelbinder
From pop to art, from short film trilogy to documentary epos, from 1995 to 2016—the
diversity of Gabriele Kranzelbinder’s portfolio is virtually unrivaled. With a side look at
her affinity to pop culture, the new Spotlight on feels its way along the films of this
extraordinary Austrian producer. All works are based on close artistic collaborations that
connect Kranzelbinder with the directors. Many of the productions created an
international furor, some were produced in several countries, and each one, in and of
itself, presents an absolute highlight of Austrian filmmaking.
Gabriele Kranzelbinder
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In Reference
The new festival program, In Reference, draws red lines straight through the program: In
it, Austrian cinema enters into a cinematic dialogue with itself and with selected
international positions—reacting, interacting, commenting. The program selectively
undertakes the attempt to take up related themes of the festival program, to connect them
with one another, open up doors to new conceptual spaces, and initiate dialogue.
Surf Nazis Must Die
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Austria: Forget it
Presented by the Filmarchiv Austria, the Austrian Film museum,
and SYNEMA – Gesellschaft für Film
Ever since the first Diagonale, historical special programs have built a framework for the
film competition. Currently, such programs are granted ever more urgency, as they refer
to the backside of cinema digitizing: to the relationship of contemporary cinema to its
history, marked by the disappearance of historical copies and the associated venues for
playing them. In their questioning of our cinematic inheritance, the film-historical
programs presented in the context of the Diagonale, allow more than simply a number of
new (re-)discoveries. At issue is also always a shifting of perspective and therefore, an
opening of new contexts with regard to the film medium and the past. And they are also
about giving a young audience the chance to view in the cinema, rarely screened films
that belong to Austria’s cultural inheritance.
Vienna Is Different
Under the provocative title Austria: Forget it, the film historical special programs from the
Austrian Film Museum, Filmarchiv Austria, and SYNEMA will work together for the first
time, but with separate roles, approaching a a central phase of Austrian film and
contemporary history: the Waldheim years. In doing so they will investigate not only the
time around 1986, but also the question of the extent to which (Austrian) film promotes the
culture of forgetting and suppression, or instead, provides opposition and protests to it.
The three series will be supplemented with a find from the ORF Archive, a work-inprogress by the filmmaker Ruth Beckermann, and two international films in the new
program area In Reference.
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Austria Film Meeting
The Austria Film Meeting at the Diagonale is an open forum of exchange about possible
courses of action in the areas of film, television, and cinema. It brings together people who
are involved in diverse activities and debates at the interface of culture, art, business, and
science. At the Austria Film Meeting, which is laid out transnationally and across the
generations, genders, and branches, solidarity-based action and networking in the service
of Austrian film stand in a global context.
Cinema, film, and television are currently confronted with major and fundamental
changes. The transformation has ready promising spaces for manoeuver in narration,
form, and use, when we are serious about the pluralist world in which we live. The
Austria Film Meeting at Diagonale’16 therefore extends an invitation to a fundamental
debate—with the demand for gender equality and diversity: the Diagonale’16 puts up for
negotiation no less than the question of how we want to live—whether as filmmakers or
film viewers.
How a society is compiled and how power is distributed in this, influences how films are
produced and what films we are given to watch. Correspondingly, gender and life styles in
film are connected with production and reception conditions. Successful international
examples, from Anomalisa to Carol through to The Sopranos, Orange Is the New Black,
Transparent, etc. show diverse concepts of life in the cinema and on TV.
In various discussion and action formats, the Austria Film Meeting pursues the question of
what Austrian film and television production can learn by watching these successful
models. How can diversity be aspired to and lived? What new potential is contained in
motion pictures? The Diagonale has positioned three films in the festival program in
reference to the Austria Film Meeting.
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Film Awards and Jurys
The Diagonale offers a range of highly respected film awards. The Grand Diagonale Acting
Award, in the form of a unique work of art, created and donated by artist Anna Paul, will
be awarded to actress Erni Mangold at the opening of the festival. On Friday, March 11 at
the HDA Graz, we will have the festive awarding of the annual Carl Mayer Screenplay
Prize as well as the Thomas Pluch Screenplay Prize. The Diagonale Awards Ceremony on
March 12 in the Orpheum Graz marks the highlight rounding off the festival and celebrates
the diversity of Austrian cinema with a variety of film awards in diverse categories:
Grand Diagonale Prize Feature Film (Euro 21,000)
Jury 2016
Esther Buss (Film critic, DE)
Zsuzsanna Kiràly (Producer, AT)
Norman Shetler (Cinema operator, Gartenbaukino, AT)
Grand Diagonale Prize Documentary Film (Euro 21,000)
Jury 2016
Jenny Billeter (Programmer Solothurner Filmtage, Kino Xenix, CH)
Marten Persiel (Filmmaker, DE)
Rüdiger Suchsland (Film critic, director, DE)
Diagonale Prize Innovative Cinema (Euro 10,500)
Jury 2016
Alexandra Grausam (Director das weisse haus, restorer, AT)
Naoko Kaltschmidt (Curator mumok kino, author, AT)
Mario Kozina (Film Critic, Programmer 25 FPS, HR)
Other Prizes
Prizes for Acting, Prize Best Short Feature Film, Prize Best Short Documentary, Youth
Jury Prize, Cinematographers Prize, Editors Prize, Sound Design Prize, Prizes for Design,
Prize Innovative Production, Audience Prize – diagonale.at/film-awards
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Festival Venues
Diagonale Festival District
Diagonale at Kunsthaus Graz
Lendkai 1, 8020 Graz
Tram line: 1, 3, 6, 7 (Südtirolerplatz)
Guest & press center, Tue–Sun 10 a.m.–7 p.m.
Free WiFi available
Kunsthauscafé, Tue–Sat 9 a.m.–2 a.m.
Diagonale at HDA
Mariahilferstraße 2
Tram line: 1, 3, 6, 7 (Südtirolerplatz)
Talks, Wed–Sat
#DurchDieNacht, Wed–Fri until 3 a.m.
Bar 8020
Mariahilferstraße 7–9
Tram line: 1, 3, 6, 7 (Südtirolerplatz)
Wed–Sat 5 p.m.–2 a.m.
Festival Cinemas
Filmzentrum im Rechbauerkino
Rechbauerstraße 6
8010 Graz
KIZ RoyalKino
Conrad von Hötzendorfstraße 10
8010 Graz
Schubertkino
Mehlplatz 2
8010 Graz
UCI Kinowelt Annenhof
Annenstraße 29
8020 Graz
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Other Locations
MANGOLDS vis-à-vis
Zinzendorfgasse 30
Bus: 31, 39, 41, 63 (Uni Mensa)
Tue–Sun 10 a.m.–6 p.m.
Helmut List Halle
Waagner-Biro-Straße 98a
Tram line: 1, 7 (Bahnhof) + Bus: 85 (Waagner-Biro-Straße)
Orpheum
Orpheumgasse 8
Tram line: 1, 3, 6, 7 (Roseggerhaus)
Künstlerhaus. Halle für Kunst & Medien
Burgring 2
Bus: 30 (Schauspielhaus)
Dom im Berg
Schloßbergplatz 1
Restaurant SCHLOSSBERG
Am Schloßberg 1
Tram line: 4, 5 (Schloßbergplatz)
designforum Steiermark
Andreas-Hofer-Platz 17
Bus: 67 (Andreas-Hofer-Platz)
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