Country Focus: Austria
by Cineuropa
29/03/2011 - Articles, interviews, news, analysis on the Austrian audiovisual sector.
Country profile: Austria
International Film Guide 2012: Austria
A survey of the film culture and output in Austria published by the International Film Guide.
Austria - International Film Guide Survey 2010
A survey of the film culture and output in Austria published by the International Film Guide.
Film Institute grants over €3.3m to eight projects
At its second 2009 funding allocation session, the Austrian Film Institute awarded over €3.3m to eight feature film projects. The committee, which included director Erwin Wagenhofer (We Feed the World), selected five narrative works and three documentaries. Selected narrative features include Harald Sicheritz’s comedy 3faltig, starring Christian Tramitz (MR Film in co-production with German company Falcom Media); Reinhard Schwabenitzky’s road movie Furcht und Zittern, in which an agoraphobic...
Austria - International Film Guide Survey
The highlight of 2008 was Stefan Ruzowitzy’s success at the Academy Awards with The Counterfeiters, which was awarded the Best Foreign Language Film. This intriguing KZ-drama deals with the ‘Operation Bernhard’, believed to be the biggest counterfeiting mission in history. The Oscar win increased the audience by 150,000 to 190,000 in Austrian cinemas and made the production a remarkable international success. The Counterfeiters also marks a shift towards genre cinema. Thus, the movement once...
Positive 2008 results
With an Oscar for The Counterfeiters, around 40 (co-)productions (including 22 avant-premières) presented at major international festivals, as many international awards and increased interest from local audiences, Austrian film enjoyed a successful 2008, according to the AFC (Austrian Film Commission). The quality of Austrian films is often showcased at festivals, but last year was a particularly good one, starting with Berlin, where Luigi Falorni’s Heart of Fire screened in competition....
Austria - Film Industry Report 2007 (Facts & Figures 2006)
For many years the film sector had called for an annual report that would describe the situation of Austria’s movie industry, not only with a view to collecting objective facts and figures and thus establishing a national and European context for Austrian film production, but also to give policy makers an indication of where action might be needed and which forward-looking decisions had to be taken. With its third Film Industry Report, the Austrian Film Institute provides a well-founded...
Austria 2006 - Trouble in the Hothouse
The reputation of Austrian cinema today is unprecedented. After decades of struggling it has established itself as (what in festival and business lingo is called) a "hot spot" of international cinema. Let's illustrate it with a simple example: Imagine you went to the annual Austrian showcase, the national festival "Diagonale," this last March. You would have found, amongst other things, the following on display: firstly, Caché (2005), the prized art-house thriller with which Austrian Michael...
