With the Viennale kicking off today, 20 October, and lasting until 1 November, there is a lot to celebrate, starting with the obvious 60^th anniversary of the festival. This will be reflected in the programme, as festival director Eva Sangiorgi has promised the “best film discoveries” and “important Austrian films”.

Indeed, the programme from Austria includes over 20 short and feature-length titles, including productions and co-productions. Among them are movies that have won awards internationally, such as Vera [+lee también:
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entrevista: Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel
ficha de la película] by Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel, which will be the opening title of the Viennale, and Mutzenbacher [+lee también:
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entrevista: Ruth Beckermann
ficha de la película] by Ruth Beckermann. The Viennale has also decided to include Ulrich Seidl's Sparta [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] in the line-up, which recently caused some controversy after a Der Spiegel article was published about certain practices on set. Also on the programme are Matter Out of Place [+lee también:
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entrevista: Nikolaus Geyrhalter
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ficha de la película] by Peter Hengl, Eismayer [+lee también:
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entrevista: David Wagner
ficha de la película] by David Wagner (which recently won in Venice’s Giornate degli Autori), Amina Handke's My Sentence, Claudia Müller’s Elfriede Jelinek – Language Unleashed, as well as the co-productions A Little Love Package [+lee también:
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entrevista: Gastón Solnicki, Angeliki …
ficha de la película] by Gastón Solnicki and Jet Lag [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Zheng Lu Xinyuan.

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The European part of the international programme includes the French-Romanian-Swedish co-production Aftersun [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Charlotte Wells, Rewind & Play [+lee también:
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entrevista: Alain Gomis
ficha de la película] by Alain Gomis, See you Friday, Robinson [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Mitra Farahani, Mother by Carolin Schmitz, Living [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Oliver Hermanus, Lars Eidinger – To Be or Not To Be by Reiner Holzemer, Enys Men [+lee también:
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entrevista: Mark Jenkin
ficha de la película] by Mark Jenkin, Unrest [+lee también:
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entrevista: Cyril Schäublin
ficha de la película] by Cyril Schäublin, Pacifiction [+lee también:
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entrevista: Albert Serra
ficha de la película] by Albert Serra, Saint Omer [+lee también:
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entrevista: Alice Diop
entrevista: Kayije Kagame
ficha de la película] by Alice Diop, Godland [+lee también:
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entrevista: Elliott Crosset Hove
entrevista: Hlynur Pálmason
ficha de la película] by Hlynur Pálmason, Other People’s Children [+lee también:
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entrevista: Rebecca Zlotowski
ficha de la película] by Rebecca Zlotowski and The Banshees of Inisherin [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Martin McDonagh.

The retrospective is dedicated to Yoshida Kijū, a key figure of the “Japanese New Wave”, whose works have rarely been shown in the West. The “monographs” are dedicated to Med Hondo, the founding father of African cinema; Ebrahim Golestan, a director and producer from Iran; and Hollywood actress-director Elaine May.

The industry section includes talks with filmmakers Alain Guiraudie and Joanna Hogg. In addition, Filipino helmer Lav Diaz will conduct a master class. German filmmaker Werner Herzog will be present for a gala event for his film The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft [+lee también:
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ficha de la película]. Furthermore, Romania’s Radu Jude will be present for the screening of his short film The Potemkinists.

For the benefit of its audience, the festival will expand its offering tailored to people with hearing or visual impairments, as well as for the deaf. To mark the special anniversary, there will be an additional publication, called Viennale 60. On Film Festivals. Including contributions written by film lovers from all over the world, it deals with the obligations, the necessities and the motives of festivals at a time of great change. It thus aims to look both to the recent and the more distant past, as well as to the future.