Florian Kofler

Julia Gutweniger and Florian Kofler embarked on a journey into the engine room of Adriatic tourism. VISTA MARE will be a film about the people we spend our holidays with year after year without realising it – a look into the lives and work of those who work while we enjoy our holidays.

The Alps are covered by a nearly invisible security system that’s supposed to protect humans from natural disasters. This film attentively follows the sometimes mysterious-looking activities and preparations to portray the human struggle against the forces of nature.

A film about the abandoned border town Brennero / Brenner, which has been seized by a new busyness due to current events. In the form of a cycle of a year Julia Gutweniger and Florian Kofler follow how local routines, perpetual transit traffic and people come together, who are forced by the violence of political systems into new biographies. Whereas large portions of the original population have long since left, refugees find temporary shelter in the old barracks and abandoned train station buildings, before they are deported again. As quickly as the village once emerged on the demarcation line, it seems it will disappear again now just as quickly …

For 25 years, restorer Willibald Adrian Metzger has heard nothing from his former schoolmates. Then he suddenly stumbles - quite literally - over the corpse of a former classmate who had bullied him in a cruel way in his school days. When Metzger arrives at the scene with the police, he can't believe his eyes: the body is gone. Against his nature and spurred on by Danjela's curiosity, the former eccentric organizes a class reunion to uncover the cover-up of the bloody deed. His former classmates are astounded by the eloquence of the actually shy outsider, who uses his sharp mind and great powers of deduction to twist their words around in their mouths...

Julia Gutweniger and Florian Kofler embarked on a journey into the engine room of Adriatic tourism. VISTA MARE will be a film about the people we spend our holidays with year after year without realising it – a look into the lives and work of those who work while we enjoy our holidays.

The Alps are covered by a nearly invisible security system that’s supposed to protect humans from natural disasters. This film attentively follows the sometimes mysterious-looking activities and preparations to portray the human struggle against the forces of nature.

The Alps are covered by a nearly invisible security system that’s supposed to protect humans from natural disasters. This film attentively follows the sometimes mysterious-looking activities and preparations to portray the human struggle against the forces of nature.

A film about the abandoned border town Brennero / Brenner, which has been seized by a new busyness due to current events. In the form of a cycle of a year Julia Gutweniger and Florian Kofler follow how local routines, perpetual transit traffic and people come together, who are forced by the violence of political systems into new biographies. Whereas large portions of the original population have long since left, refugees find temporary shelter in the old barracks and abandoned train station buildings, before they are deported again. As quickly as the village once emerged on the demarcation line, it seems it will disappear again now just as quickly …

A film about the abandoned border town Brennero / Brenner, which has been seized by a new busyness due to current events. In the form of a cycle of a year Julia Gutweniger and Florian Kofler follow how local routines, perpetual transit traffic and people come together, who are forced by the violence of political systems into new biographies. Whereas large portions of the original population have long since left, refugees find temporary shelter in the old barracks and abandoned train station buildings, before they are deported again. As quickly as the village once emerged on the demarcation line, it seems it will disappear again now just as quickly …