14th  AUSTRIAN INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL:


OFFICIAL SELECTION 2025
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FILMS / MUSIC VIDEOS OFFICIAL SELECTION

The Actress (AUT, 13') by Hannes Fretzer
Aeterna - Eternal Dance (AUT, 2') by Doron Nadav
Annika & Theo (AUT, 16') by Timo Fabio Vogt
Atme, mein Kind (AUT, 3') by Sonja Aufreiter
Bearfur (AUT, 12') by Philipp Chromy
BIBIZA - aufnimmawiederschaun (AUT, 3') by Rupert Höller
Bibiza - Discoschnupfen (AUT, 4') by Roland Schafek
Bibiza - Tanzen (AUT, 3') by Roland Schafek, Teresa Pentzold
Brush me (AUT, 2') by Nikolaus Jantsch
Cassandra's Client (UAE,10') by Ravi Kishore Donthikurthi
Coarse Truth (AUT, 10') by Joshua Murphy, Leni Lauritsch
Creative Allrounder (AUT, 4') by Joshua Murphy
Do I Know You? // Kennen Wir Uns? (AUT, 20') by Natalie Dutzler
Edmund - Legende (AUT, 3') by René Rodlauer
Ember (UK/AUT, 1') by Howard Wimshurst
Fragile as roses (SPA, 13') by Hugo Welzel
The Goo (AUT, 2') by Jan Pscheidt
H5N1: Conservation in Crisis (AUT, GER, IND, UK, 14') by Valentin Blüml
Heartware (GER, 15') by Leander Behal
Hecate (AUT, 9') by Mascha Deikova
Inkubus (GER, 26') by Reza Sam Mosadegh
Moving Out (AUT, 19') by Marlene Auer-Pleyl
Not walking the streets (AUT, 21') by Roland Dietz
Not Yours to Save (AUT, 4') by Shelly Gertan
Nothing to be sorry about (AUT, 12') by Richard Horn
Onan's Harvest (AUT, 4') by Luke Röber
One Way Ticket to Tbilisi (AUT/Georgia/GER, 29') by Paul Ploberger
Pesto - AUGMENTALITY (POL, 4') by Pawel Stokajlo, Piotr Smolenski
Predator (SPA, 10') by Javier Fesser
Scarecrow (AUT, 6') by Daniel Ecker
The sleep of dream (AUT, 9') by Evi Jägle, Christoph Müller, Jan Barner
Stolen Time (AUT, 90') by Alexander Baldreich (WP)
Tem Fé (POR/AUT, 7') by Helen Esther Aschauer, Leonor Patrocino
Tyrann (AUT, 2') by Robert Puteanu, Elias Fleischer
Viehzucht (AUT, 7') by Jolanta Warpechowski (WP)
Vienna's Last Sign Painter (AUT, 9') by Rebecca Poell
Wir schwenkten keine Fahnen (AUT, 12') by Mario Dengler
Women of Water (AUT, 9') by Editta Braun
Yarn Over (AUT/UK, 4') by Veronika Wielach

FILMS / MUSIC VIDEOS OFFICIAL SELECTION (without a screening)
10 Dinars (JOR, 3') by Noor Hanania
Actually, I didn't want to stay long (GER, 23') by Andreas Grützner
Afterglow (AUS, 26') by Vicky Wanless
All that's left (AUT, 25') by Iris Adelt, Theresa Eschbacher
Anton Bruckner (AUT, 19') by Alexander Bruckner
Aware (USA, 3') by Ryann Liebl 🎞
Before the Dawn (CAN, POL, POR, UKR, Swaziland, 7') by Alexander Denysenko
Bridge - My Little Friends (JAP, 10') by Kazuyuki Ishihara
By The Sea (AUT/CH/USA, 20') by Stephan Eigenmann
Dancing with Time (CAN, 22') by Marie Lavorel, Tamar Tembeck, Paul Tom
Day's End (AUT, 29') by Felix Stichmann
Del (USA, 4') by Mehran Matin 🎞
Es la vida (SPA, 28') by Alfonso O Donnell Gonzalez de Castejon, Alfonso O'Donnell
Die ewigen Gärtnerinnen (AUT/Tanzania, 25') by David Hradetzky
Facing the Unknown - emergency preparedness (AUT/BEL, 73') by Dieter Grohmann
The fishing boats of Kayar (SPA, 29') by Álvaro Hernández Blanco
Imperia (GER, 35') by Marcel Barsotti
Inner Fight (SPA/AUT, 20') by Núria Castán
Jade Earrings of the Last Empress (USA, 17') by Lin Zuo, Marlin Darrah
Last Call (AUT, 14') by Tobias Bohunovsky
The Life (CH, 6') by Timo Stump
Malaika and the Georgia Swamp Dawgs: "Down by the Riverside" (AUT, 4') by Bert Walser
Mauthausen: Song of Songs (GREECE, 10') by Panagiotis Kountouras, Aristarchos Papadaniel
Morphic (USA, 16') by Malik Maliki
No Time (GER, 24') by Nadiia Khatymlianska
Pierre West (SWE, 28') by Henrik Larsson, Jakob Arevärn
PIG (SPA, 20') by Sara Sálamo, Anna Saura
Prayer of the Sea (GER, 6') by Martin Gerigk
Project 2029 (USA, 4') by James Jones🎞
Scraps (LUX, 19') by Nilton Martins
Squib (AUT, 4') by Martin Zöscher
The Taste of Pork Belly (TWN, 20') by Sophie Shui
Teresa, Station B (GER, 19') by Katharina Sporrer
There, as we lay on the shore (AUT, 11') by Richard Horn
Thermenwartung - Service Call (AUT, 9') by Martha, Udo und Siegfried
To the stars and back (AUT, 8') by Martin Venier 🎞
Transanimalism (AUT, 12') by Andreas Pilsl, Heike Christiane Kotsios 🎞
When the time is short (Argentina, Chile, 3') by Emiliano Romero
Your Own Boss (ESP, 18') by Álvaro Guzmán Bastida


FILMS OF THE SPECIAL SCREENING PROGRAM (out of competition)

Causality(AUT, 4') by Sonja Presich
The Casting Conditions(AUT, 1') by Andreas Reisenbauer, Alexander Bachmayer (WP 12/2025)
Dul (AUT, 8') by Alexander Bachmayer, Andreas Reisenbauer (WP 6.10.2025)
Ekorts (AUT, 6') by Alexander Bachmayer, Julia Hulle, Andreas Reisenbauer (WP 6.10.2025)
Hot Brain (AUT, 95') by Renate Woltron (WP 17.5.2025)
Infrared Checkmate (AUT, 1') by Andreas Reisenbauer
Noch ein Bissen (AUT, 13') by Sonja Presich, Conny Presich
Schuldreh (AUT, 11') by Renate Woltron, Andreas Reisenbauer
The Simultaneity of Breathing (AUT, 4') by Mersolis Schöne
Treibgut (AUT, 22') by John Whitehand (WP 12/2025)



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

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