FILMS IN PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT

IN PRODUCTION

30 BULLETS

A film by The Riahi Brothers
Feature Film I 110 min | DE, AUT
a co-production with bildundtonfabrik

SYNOPSIS

30 BULLETS is the true story of a prosecutor, a journalist and a terror survivor who, against all odds, took up the fight against two lawless governments.

Funded by ZDF/arte, BKM
Developed by MEDIA, Austrian Film Institute (ÖFI) and Vienna Film Fund (FFW)

READ MY BREASTS

A film by Anja Salomonowitz
Documentary | 108 min | AUT, ESP
a co-production with Alba Sotorra Cinema Productions

SYNOPSIS

Courageous activist, persecuted fighter, feminist icon. READ MY BREASTS is an intimate film portrait of FEMEN co-founder Inna Shevchenko. A poetic long-term documentary about the relentless price of uncompromising resistance, self-empowerment, and the undeterred struggle for a more just world.

Funded with the support of BMKOES, Eurimages, ORF Film/Fernseh-Abkommen, FISA, ICEC Catalunya and City of Vienna MA7 Culture Department

bTBI

A film by Juri Rechinsky
Documentary | 90 min | AUT

SYNOPSIS

The Journey of an invisible wound. A film about psychological war trauma among Ukrainian soldiers and about their long journey from the state of war to the state of peace. A Film about madness. A Film about recovery.

Funded with the support of Austrian Film Institute, Vienna Film Fund, ÖFI+ and ORF Film/Fernseh-Abkommen

RAHĪL

A film by Sallar Othman
Feature Film | 90 min | AUT
a co-production with APEX FILM GmbH

SYNOPSIS

A refrigerated truck is on its way from Hungary to Austria. Hidden in the cargo hold are people from the Middle East – they are fleeing their homes. During the dangerous journey, their individual backgrounds and abysses collide. An intimate drama in a confined space that brings together the different desires, dreams, and fears of the passengers.

Funded with the support of Austrian Film Institute, ÖFI+ and Vienna Film Fund

SUPERHUMANS

A film by Inna Shevchenko
Documentary | 80 min | AUT / LUX / UKR

SYNOPSIS

In Ukraine, a country fighting for its survival, a rehabilitation clinic becomes a living monument to the unbroken body. Superhumans is a visceral, poetic journey where war survivors rebuild themselves from titanium and dignity.

Supported by Austrian Film Institute, Vienna Film Fund ORF Film/Fernseh-Abkommen and Zukunftsfonds Österreich
Winner of Ji.Hliava News Visions Forum 2025 & selection FIPADOC international pitches 2026

IN FINANCING

RIOT / GIRL

A film by Arman T. Riahi
Feature Film I 90 min | AUT / LUX / DE
A co-production with Amour Fou Luxembourg & Strange Bird

SYNOPSIS

Iranian teenager NIKA (17) is supposed to spend a few weeks with her relatives in Austria, officially to recover from her nose job. But with Nika’s presence, tensions within the family rise. Soon, HENGAMEH (42) can no longer hide that her niece is with them for different reasons.

Supported by the Austrian Film Institute and Vienna Film Fund
Script developed with the support of If She Can See It She Can Be It

LUCY

A film by Jasmin Baumgartner
Fiction/Documentary Hybrid | 90 min | AUT

SYNOPSIS

When five teenagers set off a bomb scare at their favorite mall to save a friend, the devoted “famiglia” seeks refuge in Vienna’s legendary Lugner City. Amid a unique melting pot of bizarre encounters, the friends are put to the test by the pressure of a police manhunt and their own social backgrounds.

Developed with the support of Austrian Film Institute and Vienna Film Fund

MAMÀ

A film by David Clay Diaz
Feature Film | 90 min | AUT / DE / ESP
A co-production with Rommelfilm & Octel Films

SYNOPSIS

David clears out his mother's apartment who suffered from hoarding disorder. As he sorts through her past, he recalls the last summer when he was a child and everything still seemed fine - until her illness shattered the stability of his childhood.

Developed with the support of Austrian Film Institute and Vienna Film Fund
Part of eQuinoxe Europe 2025

PARASTOO

A film by Nader Saeivar
Feature Film | 100 min | DE / AUT
A co-production with ArtHood Films

SYNOPSIS

An Iranian immigrant mother in Germany is pushed to the brink when a troubled teenage boy’s obsession with her spirals into accusations, silence, and exile forcing her and her son to choose between survival, truth, and belonging in a country that no longer feels safe.

IN DEVELOPMENT

EXILE FAMILY MOVIE - PART 2

A film by Arash T. Riahi
Documentary I 100 min | AUT


An Iranian family scattered all over the world meets again after 20 years. Through this family reunion and other stories from the Iranian diaspora universe, a kaleidoscope of a multi-layered collective identity complex emerges that is both specific and universal.




Developed with the support of Austrian Film Institute

BASTA

A film by Franziska Pflaum
written by Franziska Pflaum & Thomas Mraz
Feature Film | 90 min | AUT

Lifeguard Willi lives a secret life in the basement of an indoor pool, using nightly excesses of alcohol to cope with his frustrations. When Vesna, a cleaning lady, discovers his hideout, she sees an opportunity. Having failed for years to legally bring her child from Serbia to Austria, she presents Willi with a choice: marriage or exposure. Through this arrangement, both come to understand that „home“ is not defined by a location, but by the bonds we form with the people we care about.

Developed with the support of Austrian Film Institute

FRANKIE

A HEART STORY

A film by Arash T. Riahi
Feature Film | 100 min | AUT


A single Iranian father lives in Austria with his two children. When his son (10) has a fatal accident at school, he tries with all means to bring the truth to light and overcome his grief. However his effords to shed light on the circumstances of the accident have different effects than planned.

Developed with the support of Creative Europe Programme - MEDIA

MENSCHEN AM MONTAG

A film by Michael Kreihsl
Feature Film | 90 min | AUT


In a finely woven web of relationships, the lives of several couples and families intertwine, at times comically, at times painfully, whilst staged moments of everyday life lay bare their longings, lies and emotional depths.


Script developed with the support of Austrian Film Institute

MIGRATION NATION

A feature series by The Riahi Brothers
written by Klaus Oppitz
6 x 45 min | AUT

Set in the near future. The members of the Viennese working-class family Putschek, supporters of the right wing populists, are unwilling to accept the fact that they – like many of their fellow countrymen – have lost out by electing the party that is in power. They are forced to flee to Turkey as refugees. An absurd farce about the future in the present.

Developed with the support of Creative Europe Programme - MEDIA & Vienna Film Fund

QUINN OF THE WEST

A film by David Wagner
written by David Wagner & Magda Woitzuck
Feature Film | 90 min | AUT

In a post-apocalyptic Europe Nisma finds a way to reconnect with her long presumed dead mother Quinn. The two set out into a dangerous world. But what starts as a journey to find a fortune becomes one to overcome their hurtful past.

Script developed with the support of Austrian Film Institute
Part of Sam Spiegel Film Lab 2026

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