Helene Stupnicki

Nine-year-old Gina yearns for the warmth of a real family, but her mother Gitte is struggling to cope with the demands of single parenthood and an impending fourth child. Seeking refuge in excessive parties and alcohol, Gitte risks losing the one thing that keeps her going: her children. As Gina fights against the backdrop of generational poverty, neglect, and lovelessness, she refuses to accept that her fate is predetermined by her birthplace. This is a three-generation family portrait told through the eyes of a determined nine-year-old girl, who is determined to break the cycle and find stability and hope amidst the challenges of her upbringing.

Actually everything was forgotten, the ghosts of the past were banished. But then one stroke of fate followed the other and it was time to meet the demons.

A poetic portrait of the Austrian painter Maria Lassnig.

A seriously injured man calls with his last strength for special investigator Alexander Haller. It's his friend and former colleague Scherf, who until recently was in prison for the murder of his wife. When Haller arrives at the hospital, the dying man can only offer him two enigmatic requests. A new case begins for Alexander, one that reawakens old doubts.

Leon, an eleven-year-old, disappears from a Bavaria-Austrian border region children's home, resembling a previous case five years ago. Investigation involves Inspector Reincke and forensic archaeologist Dr. Marie Sonnleitner.

Willibald Adrian Metzger is supposed to restore the interior of a dance theater in Graz. But then the lead actress and, shortly thereafter, the understudy of the current production suddenly die. Metzger isn't the only one who finds this strange.

Precariat meets high snobiety: With no-budget charm and wit, sophisticated characters, pointed dialogues, satirical social commentary and bitter plot twists, Sebastian Brauneis tells the story of a tenancy relationship in which law does not always mean justice, set against the backdrop of the Austrian housing market.

On December 24, in the middle of the supposedly quietest time of the year, anything is possible! And this is exactly what the episodic film "Schrille Nacht" tells in seven short stories.

Astrid, Elli and Isabella go camping together as they used to. However, not only because Elli has breast cancer, nothing is like it used to be. Only when Astrid steals the savings of a man who has died in an accident the three leave old habits to renew their friendship in Italy.

Brenner returns to Graz, the city where he grew up. When confronted with his old friends, his former girlfriend and the major sin he committed when he was young, murders and a fateful gunshot to the head result. After Brenner comes out of a coma, he begins to search for the person who tried to kill him - however, everybody claims that he himself is responsible. In the beginning Brenner was at the end of his rope, but he could face a new beginning in the end.

A music professor facing redundancy and a serious hoarding habit is pushed to extremes when he discovers his girlfriend has given a treasured 1960s band jacket to charity. He enlists a young ambitious musicologist to accompany him on a mission to retrieve the jacket.