Gabriele Mathes

Three female photojournalists on outside duty. They are supplying interviews with notorious murderers and rapists. On a weekend trip to the idyll of a mountain landscape something strange occurs..

Once upon a Sunday afternoon, Maria burned the bread... A fairy tale. A play with archtypal motifs. An excursion into difficult terrain.

"In A MILLION IN DEBT IS NORMAL, SAYS MY GRANDFATHER, Gabriele Mathes traces the consequences of the decline of her father’s furniture factory via her family’s Super-8 footage(..)" (Viennale)

What does a lion think when he sees a person in a wheelchair in the desert? - "Meals on Wheels..."

"Masculinity" is the subject of this film. Harald, the protagonist, fails in his blind attempt to prove his masculinity at Maria's expense. The Stone Age is over. Is it really?

As one of our programmers put it, “This is delightful, the most Viennese thing I can imagine.” As the title spells out, the director documents her desperate, valiant, lockdown-era efforts to help retain a small grocery business in her Gemeindebau (subsidized tenement block) and does via an accessibly personal film that tackles complex, serious subject matters with intelligence, sensitivity, great humor, and even touches of unapologetic silliness.

Three female photojournalists on outside duty. They are supplying interviews with notorious murderers and rapists. On a weekend trip to the idyll of a mountain landscape something strange occurs..

Three female photojournalists on outside duty. They are supplying interviews with notorious murderers and rapists. On a weekend trip to the idyll of a mountain landscape something strange occurs..

Once upon a Sunday afternoon, Maria burned the bread... A fairy tale. A play with archtypal motifs. An excursion into difficult terrain.

Once upon a Sunday afternoon, Maria burned the bread... A fairy tale. A play with archtypal motifs. An excursion into difficult terrain.

"In A MILLION IN DEBT IS NORMAL, SAYS MY GRANDFATHER, Gabriele Mathes traces the consequences of the decline of her father’s furniture factory via her family’s Super-8 footage(..)" (Viennale)

What does a lion think when he sees a person in a wheelchair in the desert? - "Meals on Wheels..."

What does a lion think when he sees a person in a wheelchair in the desert? - "Meals on Wheels..."

"Masculinity" is the subject of this film. Harald, the protagonist, fails in his blind attempt to prove his masculinity at Maria's expense. The Stone Age is over. Is it really?

"Masculinity" is the subject of this film. Harald, the protagonist, fails in his blind attempt to prove his masculinity at Maria's expense. The Stone Age is over. Is it really?

As one of our programmers put it, “This is delightful, the most Viennese thing I can imagine.” As the title spells out, the director documents her desperate, valiant, lockdown-era efforts to help retain a small grocery business in her Gemeindebau (subsidized tenement block) and does via an accessibly personal film that tackles complex, serious subject matters with intelligence, sensitivity, great humor, and even touches of unapologetic silliness.