Directing
Peter Brunner
Born 1983-01-01 · Vienna, Austria
Peter Brunner, born in 1983, is a filmmaker and former student of Michael Haneke. His debut feature film, My Blind Heart, premiered at Park City (Slamdance) and in the Tiger Competition at IFF Rotterdam in 2014, earning multiple international awards, including a nomination for the Golden Frog at the Camerimage Film Festival. His second feature, Those Who Fall Have Wings, won the Special Jury Prize at the 50th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2015. Brunner's English-language debut, To the Night (2018), starring Palme d'Or winner Caleb Landry Jones, was praised by THR as "a psychological acid trip of a movie." Following his 2021 horror-drama Luzifer, starring Franz Rogowski, which premiered in competition at Locarno and won the Critics' Prize, Brunner reunited with Jones for the co-written passion project Down the Arm of God, produced by Luc Besson.
Acting credits
Behind the camera
5.8Johannes, an innocent, Kaspar Hauser-like man with the heart of a child, lives secluded in an alpine hut together with his eagle and his devout mother. Daily life in this isolated world is governed by prayer and ritual. But suddenly, modern objects and disruptive noises intrude between nature and worship. A tourist development threatens to poison their paradise and awaken the devil.
Luzifer
2021
5.8Johannes, an innocent, Kaspar Hauser-like man with the heart of a child, lives secluded in an alpine hut together with his eagle and his devout mother. Daily life in this isolated world is governed by prayer and ritual. But suddenly, modern objects and disruptive noises intrude between nature and worship. A tourist development threatens to poison their paradise and awaken the devil.
Luzifer
2021
Time stands still for young and asthmatic Kati, but she has to bid her farewell to move on.
Those Who Fall Have Wings
2015
Time stands still for young and asthmatic Kati, but she has to bid her farewell to move on.
Those Who Fall Have Wings
2015
4.8Norman, who lost his parents in a fire as a child, is obsessed with light and haunted by its destructive powers.
To the Night
2018
4.8Norman, who lost his parents in a fire as a child, is obsessed with light and haunted by its destructive powers.
To the Night
2018
NRA young pastor goes through a harsh winter in a small Texas town, where his mission to help the homeless is faced with resistance by his congregation, exposing deep-seated prejudice and systemic failures.
Down the Arm of God
2026
NRA young pastor goes through a harsh winter in a small Texas town, where his mission to help the homeless is faced with resistance by his congregation, exposing deep-seated prejudice and systemic failures.
Down the Arm of God
2026
5.7Kurt, who suffers from an incurable disease, gets obsessed with the idea of freeing himself from his sick body - at any price.
My Blind Heart
2014