SHAHED (THE WITNESS) WINS AUDIENCE AWARD AT VENICE BIENNALE

Following its premiere at the 81st Venice International Film Festival, SHAHED (THE WITNESS) by Nader Saeivar, co-written and edited by Jafar Panahi, has been awarded the Armani Beauty Audience Award in the Orizzonti Extra section.

The film is a co-production of German Arthood Film, Golden Girls Film and Sky films.

HOW TO BE NORMAL AND THE ODDNESS OF
THE OTHER WORLD -
COMING SOON

The first feature film by Florian Pochlatko is being expected to premiere end of 2024/ beginning of 2025.

PIA, fresh out of psychiatry, moves back in with her parents to get her life together. Torn between a new job, lovesickness, psychotropic drugs and social stigmatization, she emerges into a world where everything seems out of control.

TO CLOSE YOUR EYES
AND SEE FIRE -
COMING SOON

The first feature film by Nicola von Leffern and Jakob Carl Sauer is a long term documentary about Beirut's inhabitants, who are furious about needing to play the role of the phoenix. In the aftermath of the Beirut explosion, the city faces the challenge of healing while new crises inflict further wounds. Who will leave the country and at what cost? TO CLOSE YOUR EYES AND SEE FIRE is a poetic mosaic about the vacuum in life after tragedy.

PERLA - SHOOTING COMPLETED

It’s a wrap for Alexandra Makarová and her team.

PERLA tells the story of an impulsive painter's return to 1980s Czechoslovakia to settle an old debt. The historical drama takes us deep into the Austria’s and Czechoslovakia’s societies during the Cold War era.

The film is being expected to premiere end of 2024/beginning of 2025.

POSTPRODUCTION OF
GIRLS AND GODS

The new film by Arash T. Riahi and Verena Soltiz raises the question:
What happens if women decide to revolutionize religions instead of rejecting them? Radical feminist Inna Shevchenko (FEMEN) leads together with other female atheists a controversial journey into an age-old conflict between religion and women, encountering believers and theologians. Girls & Gods is a quest to find whether monotheistic religions can be feminist and whether feminism can be religious.

DIARY OF AN AMBASSADOR - IN POSTPRODUCTION

The documentary by Natalie Halla is about the Afghan ambassador in Vienna, Manizha Bakhtari, who is in a bizarre situation since the Taliban took power: she represents a country whose old government fled and whose new Taliban government has no international recognition. Under increasingly difficult conditions, she decides to stand up to the Taliban and continue her courageous fight for the rights of Afghanistan's women.

EISMAYER CELEBRATES INTERNATIONAL SUCCESS

David Wagner's feature film debut, the army drama Eismayer, celebrated its world premiere at the Venice International Critics' Week 2022 and won the IWonderfull main award there.

Since then, the film has been touring international festivals and has already won important awards for example @ FF Max Ophüls Preis, Les Arcs and the Diagonale'23, where Gerhard Liebmann was honoured with the acting award.
Cinema release in Germany is 1 June 2023.

FOX IN A HOLE – 4 AWARDS AT AUSTRIAN FILM AWARDS 2022

Fox in a Hole by Arman T. Riahi received four Austrian Film Awards in 2022 after being nominated in ten categories. The awards were given to Best Actress in a Leading Role (Maria Hofstätter), Best Actress in asupporting Role (Luna Jordan), Best Score and Best Sound Design.
The film that had its theatrical release in Germany in 2022 has been successful at renowned festivals worldwide and has already won 20 international awards, including the Main Award “Golden Olive Tree” at Festival del Cinema Europeo, German Acting Award, Romy, Fünf Seen Film Festival, Max Ophüls, Diagonale, Biberacher FF, Günter Rohrbach Award.

THE BUBBLE – INTERNATIONAL AWARDS IN ZAGREB & BARCELONA

After Valerie Blankenbyl’s feature documentary premiered at Vision du Réel 2021, the film is now touring the world. Recently the film received the Fipresci Award at ZagrebDox 2022 and the main award at the Int. Architecture Film Festival Barcelonoa. Among other festivals The Bubble was shown in the competition of DOC NYC, Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival and the Antenna Documentary Film Festival in Sydney.

SARGNAGEL – THE MOVIE  NOMINATION FOR AUSTRIAN FILM AWARD 2022

Our documedy Sargnagel – The Movie by Sabine Hiebler and Gerhard Ertl is nominated for the Austrian Film Award 2022 in the category Best Music. We keep our fingers crossed for the composers Voodoo Jürgens and David Schweighart. Sargnagel – The Movie premiered at Diagonale’21, won two awards there and travels around the world at international festivals including Seoul Int. Women`s FF, Hofer Filmtage, Biberacher FF.

EVA-MARIA - THEATRICAL RELEASE IN MARCH 2022

Lukas Ladners film that premiered at DOK.fest München and received Award for Best Documentary at UK Film Festival 2021 and the Diagonale Youth Jury Award – Best Newcomer, has its theatrical release on 11 March 2022. The film has been invited to various international Film Festivals including Dokfest Kassel, This human world, Stronger Than Fiction Documentary FF Australia, Saratov Sufferings Film Festival, Russia and many more.

FIVE ROMY AWARDS FOR WHERE NO ONE KNOWS US – OSKAR & LILY

Arash T. Riahis feature film Where No One Knows Us – Oskar & Lily, Austrians most successful festival film 2020, set a record with
5 Romy-wins and has already received a total of 21 national and international film awards.

ONCE UPON A TIME IN VENEZUELA – ENORMOUS INTERNATIONAL RESONANCE

Our Sundance-competitor 2020 and Venezuela’s Oscar entry 2021 Once Upon A Time in Venezuela by Anabel Rodríguez Ríos is still touring around the world and has won many awards at international film festivals in the meantime.

THE GOOD DEATH – NEW AWARDS IN 2021

Our co-production The Good Death by Tomáš Krupa has been awarded 13 international prizes so far. The latest awards the film received at Firenze FF, Vancouver Ind. FF, Roshani Int. FF (India), New Creators FilmAwards (France), Only the Best Film Awards (Miami).