12th  AUSTRIAN INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL:



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OFFICIAL SELECTION 2021



SHORT FILMS / MUSIC VIDEOS

75 Winter Danach (AUT, 28') by Johannes Lehner
Age of Doublessness (AUT, 12') by Amir Safari
Al-Sit (SUD, 20') by Suzannah Mirghani SEMI
Amada (AUT, 2') by LaPelusa
American't (USA, 30') by Geovanny Balderas SEMI
Armpit! (UK , 20') by Mathieu Nolhier SEMI
Avenues (AUT, 29') by Sushant Chaudhary SEMI
Aviditas (AUT, 10') by Stefan Pecher
Ba Ham - together (GER, 29') by Shahab Habibi SEMI
Ballad of the Mouth of the Monkey (AUT, 6') by Gregor Grkinic
Be unbreakable (AUT, 4') by Christoph Amort ONLINE
Beautiful Wounds - Phil Gould (UK , 5') by Sarah Scherer
Beethoven - aus der Zeit gefallen (GER, 15') by Ronka Nickel SEMI
BiBaBo (AUT, 17') by Thomas Guggenberger SEMI
The Birthmark (MEX, 12') by Bernhard Hetzenauer, Pia Ilonka Schenk Jensen SEMI
Black (AUT, 9') by Alexander Baldreich SEMI
Blonder Engel - Eckerte Augn (AUT, 4') by Nino Werner MV
The boy who loved shadows. (AUS, 29') by Vijai Joseph SEMI
Bussi, Baba (DEN, 8') by Bahare Ruch
BUTCHERTIMÉSUP (AUT, 5') by Luca Mathies ONLINE
California Boy (USA, 4') by M.P. Murdock SEMI
Celestine (AUT, 18') by Denis Pejovic SEMI
Cissy (AUT, 20') by Judith Kopetzky SEMI
cold feet (AUT, 12') by Lena Vogler SEMI
Compass (AUT, 6') by Omani Frei
Cones and elves (UKR, 1') by Julia Stakhorska
Couple (SKOR, 10) by JEON JOOHYUN SEMI
Cycles (AUT, 6') by Stefan Pecher
Demonic Sreens III (AUT, 26') by Alexander Martinz, Peter Kozek, Thomas Hörl
The Disappointment Song - Dad Rock  (USA, 4') by Nathan Leigh SEMI
The Ephemeral (SPA, 20') by Jorge Muriel SEMI
Fear the Unknown (AUT, 1') by Perica Antov, Brigitte Huber
The feeling of flatness (AUT, 4') by Christopher Gruber, Christina Ehrmann
Flawless - Jamie Harrison (UK, 6')  by Jamie Harrison SEMI
Flohplage (GER, 9') by Christoph Hans, Markus Ott
Fort-Da Game (IRAN, 18') by Amirhossein Shiralee, Ali Taghizadeh SEMI
Fremd in mir (AUT, 30') by Sara Del Barba SEMI
From Khovrino (RUS, 8') by Daria Elena Dashunina SEMI
The Gallery (AUT, 9') by Cordula Rieger SEMI
Gegenschein (AUT, 15') by Kai Krösche, Kolja Burgschuld SEMI
Heckspoiler feat. Franz Fuexe - Prolo4Life (AUT, 5') by Thomas Keplinger SEMI
The History of Nudity (AUT/UK, 18') by Shyam L. Jones SEMI
I Am (GER, 25') by Jerry Hoffmaann SEMI
I'd Make You a Space (GER, 5') by Julia Cremers SEMI
Insomniac (ROM, 5') by Cristian Balint MV
The Internal World of Phenomena (CAN, 9') by Christopher Scissons SEMI
Invisible (AUT, 4') by Thomas Keplinger
Johnson - Kruder & Dorfmeister  (AUT, 6') by Oscar Pecher, Stefan Pecher MV, ONLINE
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (AUT, 4') by Johannes Muhr
Koreatown Ghost Story (USA, 15') by Minsun Park, Teddy Tenenbaum SEMI
Kosher (ISR, 13') by Gideon Imagor
The Last Invention (AUT, 2') by Marie-Christin Aufinger, Andreas Catucci, Fabian Sonnleithner, Mustafa Özkan
layered love (AUT, 3') by Julia Alice Ostermann
Lene 1927 BandarAbbas (IRAN, 20') by Behrooz Abbasi Dashti SEMI
Letters from a Window (AUT, 5') by Nigel Gavus SEMI
Das letzte Handtuch (AUT, 5') by Daniel Limmer
Light Carousel (AUT, 12') by Alex Lazarov
Lost Kid (CH, 4') by Katherine Newton MV SEMI
Luck beyond (AUT, 4') by Nicole Jaeger
Madreselva (PER, 4') by Daniela Tomas-Miranda MV SEMI
Das Mädchen in der Waschmaschine (AUT, 04') by Danielle Bouteille
Der Mann für die Sünde - In der Klemme (GER, 50') by Joachim Jung SEMI/ONLINE
Marzanna (EST, 12') by Mart Sander SEMI
Metanoia (AUT, 9') by Astrid Rothaug ONLINE
Mind in Sight (AUT, 9') by Florian Purkarthofer SEMI
Mordgesicht (GER, 11') by Leander Behal SEMI
Mrs. van Dalen awaits.. (NED, 30') by Charlotte Rietbergen, Samantha Janssen SEMI
Naima - A N I M A (AUT, 7') by Natalie Jean-Marain, Shyam Jones MV ONLINE
The Neighbor's Dog - Kelev (ISR, 17') by Jonathan Ofek SEMI
Nu Bossa  -  Kos (USA, 4') by Kostiantyn Mishchenko SEMI
Otto’s Dream (AUT, 5') by Alexandar Peev SEMI
Overeaten (AUT, 7') by David Hemetsberger
Paco (AUT, 5') by Susanna Ruttnig, Stefan Tantana
Part of Me (UK , 9') by Marina Waltz
The Passenger (AUT, 18') by Alexander Bruckner SEMI
Peskador singt was vor (AUT, 6') by Alexander Peskador
Pick Up Your Cross (and follow me) (AUT, 3') by Michael J. Keplinger ONLINE
PONY5IBE - They Said ft. Chen Hsien-Ching (TAI, 4') by Parker Shen SEMI ONLINE
Resolve (AUT, 19') by Martin Holper SEMI
Sally Ride (SWE/AUT, 13') by Christoffer Borggren
Die Saunagänger vom Attersee (AUT, 14') by Constantin Hemetsberger SEMI
The Score (GER, 2') by Daniel Yanik ONLINE
Signals (AUT, 5') by Lukas Ignaz Halder
Silent Zone (GER, 29') by Caren Wuhrer SEMI
The Skys - Communication (LIT, 4) by Jonas Čiurlionis, Indrė Juškutė (ass.) MV SEMI
Solution for sadness (SPA, 15') by Marc Martínez Jordán, Tuixén Benet
The Sound of the Sea (AUT, 3') by Chiara Schreder SEMI
Sorry (AUT, 04:26') by Franz Josef Danner MV SEMI
Space Entropy (AUT/GER, 9') by Vera Sebert SEMI
Stray Katana (AUT, 10') by Rodrigo Preiss Maya SEMI
Swimming (AUT, 6') by Theresa Augusta
Sympoietic Bodies (AUT, 12') by Flavia Mazzanti
Take it and end it (GRE , 20') by Kirineos Papadimatos SEMI
Talking or (a postmodern approach to discussion) (AUT, 1') by Michael J. Keplinger ONLINE
To Be The Father (USA, 15') by Muyun Zhou SEMI
Tubruk (GER/AUT, 12') by Martin M. Lindner SEMI
VI'E MOKO E VI'E KENA - Spirits of the navel of the world (AUT/CHI/RN, 8') by Waitiare Kaltenegger Icka, Marcelo Varas
Die Überlegenheit des weißen Mannes (jungen Mannes) (GER, 20') by Sören Witzel SEMI
Unshackled Episodes (AUT, 3') by Mira Gregorič, Mirjam Sadjak
What-a-Mel-on (AUT, 4') by Aldina Topcagic , Dieter Grohmann
When You Were Young (SWE, 5') by Viktor Jonsson SEMI
Where Do They Come From? (AUT, 20') by Manuel Hüttner, Harry Kemp
Win - Win (AUT, 4') by Aram Voves
Wuqiao Circus (GER/AUT, 14') by Lukas Berger SEMI



MEDIUM / FEATURE LENGTH FILMS

(only the winner film is been shown in October 2021)
A Matter of Perspective (AUT, 86') by Gerda Leopold SEMI
Alles ist jetzt (AUT, 47') by Veronika Penz SEMI
Ausgang: Offen (AUT, 99') by Laura Andreß, Victoria Halper, Kai Krösche, coll. Darum SEMI
Currents of Light (GER, 31') by Bernhard Kasper ONLINE/SEMI
The Great Journey (GRE , 44') by Theofanis Matsopoulos ONLINE/SEMI
Holidays at all cost (FRA, 105') by Stevan Lee Mraovitch SEMI
Hunger Ward (USA, 40') by Skye Fitzgerald SEMI
Fall Back Down (CAN, 104') by Sara Beth (SB) Edwards SEMI
Im Nachtlicht (GER, 98') by Misha L. Kreuz SEMI
King of Ravens - König der Raben (GER, 105') by Piotr J. Lewandowski SEMI
Malpaso (DOM, 80') by Héctor M. Valdez SEMI
The 2020 Rise Up (AUT, 30') by Julian Schmiederer
Run! Shunzi (CHI, 86') by Chunliang Zhao SEMI
Shatila Stories (AUT, 52') by Shyam L. Jones SEMI
Unfinished (AUT, 60') by Wolf-Maximilian Liebich, Lukas Zweng SEMI



OUT OF COMPETTION

Predatory Instinct - Raubtiere (AUT, 7') by John Whitehand
Red Yellow Pink Experience (POL/AUT, 29') by Jolanta Warpechwoski


  screenings

  SCHICK 1-6 Schikaneder Kino
NS/SEMI: no screening/semi finalist but official selected and in competition
MV: music video
ONLINE: online
VR: virtual reality
OC: out of competition (films by the AFF-team)

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