Dying Bit by Bit

Just Behind the Door

Molly wants to hear a story so Leo tells her about how he lost his reflection that morning while shaving. Austria's submission to the Academy Award foreign film competition in 1984.

Das Manifest

A man sentenced to death escapes from a military prison and finds shelter with a resistance group that is set to liberate the country. The repressive enemy never sleeps. The escaping condemned man is also no longer the old warrior he once was: he is broken - wonders whether the resistance can put him back together.

The Happy Minutes of Georg Hauser

After a series of events, Georg Hauser, an established middle-class man, is at odds with the world, in which he himself used to work so well. He wants out. He wants to live. In a moment of his very own clarity, he destroys his car, but whoever destroys his property is an enemy of the state.

With Closed Eyes

Cinema essayist Mansur Madavi returned to the director's chair for the first time in nine years with this meditation on growing up in a small village in Chile. An elderly man (Lorenzo Montalban) looks back on the town where he grew up and recalls the mysteries of his youth, as well as the disappointments that led him to seek his fortune elsewhere. As the past travels by him, he recalls buildings that fell to dust, the arrest of his teachers, adventures with his schoolmates, watching a close friend catch pigeons, and discovering a boy who lived in tunnels he dug under the earth.

Emergency Exit

In beautiful pictures and few words, the longing of two outsiders for a different, better life is told.

Die blinde Eule

An author searches for cues about the life of a girl confined in a community home before her suicide. While trying to put together a literary piece he increasingly becomes aware of the insignificance of his own creative work. He has no insight in any world but his own.

Ho Anthropos

A man sentenced to death reflects on his arrest, interrogations, torture.. and a bit on the time before, long gone, swallowed up by pain and numbness.

Johann Nestroy 1801-1862

Documentation on the life and work of Johann Nestroy from 1801 to 1862.

Lange Schatten

Amir and his friends have a righteous anger against the Ayatollah state, and a rather eccentric plan for how they can give it shape: They cobble together a really trashy, scruffy anti-Khomeini video, which should then be secretly distributed around Iran and carry out its subsersive effects. When the Iranian secret service gets wind of this tape, the hunt begins, blood will flow. Battle zone cinema.

Guckloch

A film about floating and stored time, about the shades of white and the scream of birds.