16th  AUSTRIAN INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL:


OFFICIAL SELECTION 2026
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FILMS / MUSIC VIDEOS OFFICIAL SELECTION

0,3% (AUT, 12') by Max Rothenberg
Afternoon Tea (Czechia, 5') by Aimie-Lee
Allegory of the Cave (CHN, 9') by Weipeng Huang, Yajing Wang
Alpine Threnody (AUT, 6') by Patrick Schabus
Ancestral Shadows (USA, 18') by Wilma Casal
ancestral whispers (2025, AUT, 15') by Lukas Ladner
Animak - Animals on the toilet (Czechia, 2') by Jaromír Plachý
The Arrangement (AUT , 10') by Bernhard Weber, Maria Hinterkoerner
Art of Eternity (AUT, 8') by Alexander Baldreich
B.A.D. (Born And Dead) (AUT, 4') by Gregor Markovich
Best friends Forever (ESP, 7') by Alicia Marina, Anna Mitjà
La Boum (AUT, 5') by Oscar Haiden
BUHLE (AUT, 20') by Marlena Marie Grübl
Call Me - Victoria West (AUT/PORT, 4') by Francisca Friedrich, Matilde Laires
Captain Penguin at the South Sea Pole (AUT, 3') by Danielle Bouteille
A COAT FOR FELIX (AUT, 19') by Ingrid Adamiker
Destiny Line (Türkiye, 12') by Ibrahim Bülbül
Dispersal (AUT, 4') by Astrid Rothaug
DollTrap (USA, 7') by Tora Woloshin
Dreamt by Another (Türkiye, 9') by Vikki Bardot
Effugere (AUT, 21') by Tim Schmid
Ever Ending Summer (GER, 6') by Nikki Girod, Sylvia Jorde
FEAR (AUT, 3') by Jolanta Warpechowski
Flow My Tears (AUT, 97') by Alexander Melach
Freshly Pierced (AUT, 6') by Soph Gartner
Gestos (ESP, 8') by Pablo Ros Cardona
A good man (ESP, 12') by Juli Suàrez
He doesn't smoke (KOR, 13') by 강령 이
Herein (AUT, 19') by Tobias Bohunovsky
The Hestitant Hunter (AUT, 7') by Wolf Lass
HILLS LIKE WHITE ELEPHANTS (ESP, 13') by Jennifer Cadena
homesick (GREECE, 17') by Dimitra Mazi
Ice-Cream (AUT/POL, 6') by Jolanta Warpechowski
Ice Fairy (CHN, 6') by Yingying Chen
In process (ESP, 18') by Víctor Izquierdo Alcaraz
JOY (AUT, 14') by Markus Wiesinger
Kauf dir ein Eis! (AUT, 13') by Sonja Aufreiter
KIN (MEX/USA, 6') by Ana Baer, Rocio Luna
Kindersicher (AUT, 6') by Loric Demander
Kunterbunt & Tschambalamba’s Adventures (AUT, 2') by Ella Bergermayer
Lilith and Eva (AUT, 14') by Leila Samari, Maryam Sehhat
Mama No! (AUT, 105') by Jolanta Warpechowksi
Melting (AUT, 12') by Sonja Aufreiter
Mensch (AUT, 4') by Philipp Traunmüller, Valerie Wallner
The Nameless Soldier (CHN, 16') by Junwei Dai
NNC (PHIL, 20') by Miguel Santos Regal
Nordvind (AUT, 6') by Olivia Kathriner
OFFLINE - but connected (2026, AUT, 4') by Dieter Leitner
Okola (NGA, 19') by Paul Oluseyi Lasisi
One Last Time (LIBANON, 21') by Karim El Rahbani
Packed up! (AUT, 2') by Naftali Badawassou Francisco, Clara Delpin, Clarissa Macku
The piano that returned (DK/AUT, 20') by Kirill Lialin
PLUG (GBR, 6') by Fiona Kruschnik
Polar Lights (AUT/GER, 17') by Stefan Ludwig
Protected (AUT, 5') by Sasha Kasatkina
Rabbit Heart (GER, 13') by Stella Fachinger
Right on your Tail (AUT, 2') by Moses Varga
Same sky everywhere (AUT, 19') by Lena Burger
Sea Skin (GER, 14') by Selena Goedeke Tort
Son of God (AUT, 4') by Jakob Vyzina
Structure (USA, 10') by PJ Fishwick
Sturm auf Burg Edelend (AUT/GER, 8') by Felix Ernst Peter Schalk
Tamara Flores - Chingona (AUT, 4') by Rupert Höller
A thousand questions and one miracle (2025, AUT, 29') by Esther Wenger
Three Brothers in Shanghai (USA, 18') by Nick Andrus
THREE HANDS (ESP, 20') by Cristian Sitjas
Through The Jalousies The Sun Has Sent One Golden Needle (ARG, 13') by Eleonora Cohen Imach
Tiger's Smile (GER, 8') by Stella Fachinger
TRUMMER (AUT, 20') by Lukas Haas
Vicious Loop on a Lone Road (CHN, 11') by Shu Yu
Video Store 2001 Short (ESP, 17') by Guillermo Polo
Vienna by Night (AUT, 20') by Elisa Liphart
Was Bleibt. (AUT, 6') by Sam Bajoghli
When the cold weather arrives (ESP, 19') by María Salgado Gispert
White Whiter Whitest Black (ITA, 16') by Michele Leonardi
Woman of Air (AUT, 8') by Editta Braun
Women (AUT, 18') by Editta Braun
The Words At Play (AUT, 5') by Michael J. Keplinger MV


FILMS / MUSIC VIDEOS OFFICIAL SELECTION (online or without a screening)

In the Fluid Sensuality of All Things at Once (AUT, 3') by Mersolis Schöne
United States of Mind (AUT, 5') by Felix Reichel 🎞
Verkekst (AUT, 11') by Renate Woltron
Verhext (AUT, 7') by Renate Woltron
Versteckt (AUT, 5') by Renate Woltron


FILMS OF THE SPECIAL SCREENING PROGRAMs (out of competition)

Adrift (AUT, 22') by Andreas Reisenbauer (Sep.2026)
alles über nirgends. (AUT, 11') by Barbara Pichler-Hausegger, Alexander Bachmayer (Jan. 2027)
Deternity (AUT, 3') by Evi Jägle, Mersolis Schöne
Einander Ausgesetzt (AUT, 13') by Mersolis Schöne
Die Gleichzeitigkeit der Atmung (AUT, 4') by Mersolis Schöne
Die Historie der Nähe (AUT, 2') by Mersolis Schöne
Die Kuh bist Du! (AUT 2009,4') by Kawo Reland
Ice - Cream (AUT, 6') by Jolanta Warpechowski
Vertretung (AUT, 9') by Markus Wimberger
Wissenschaft und Liebe (AUT, 10') by Mersolis Schöne
Zwergenhirn (AUT, 5') by Andreas Reisenbauer, Viktor Schaider



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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