Max Ortner

The eccentric scientist Frieda Hofstätter is on the verge of being cast aside. Then the Valkyrie Wolkentruth appears to take her to Valhalla. But Frieda refuses and strikes a deal: Wolkentruth must help her save Frieda’s CO2-storing miracle mushroom. Only then may she take Frieda with her. Together, they race against time—and perhaps for the future of the world.

Detective Michael loses his hearing during an operation and subsequently withdraws from active duty. Years later, a former colleague asks him to take on a mysterious case involving a dangerous dragon cult. Despite his limitations, he is called back into action and must confront his past in order to solve the case.

A poetic portrait of the Austrian painter Maria Lassnig.

While attending a concert, Alexander Haller meets the director of the Vienna seminary, Wimmer. The priest asks the special investigator from the Criminal Investigation Department to inquire about a student who has been missing for days. Haller's call to Inspector Janda provides certainty: the wanted man has been murdered! The first clue leads to the Brohnsteins' aristocratic palace.

Franz is by far the smallest in the class, has blond ringlets and gets a high-pitched squeaky voice when he gets upset. Luckily, two best friends help: Gabi and Eberhard. When Franz discovers Hank Haberer's "10 rules for a real man" for himself one day, turbulence is inevitable and the friendship of the three gets into trouble.

A young woman confronts her trauma while on a date in a "Dating in the Dark"-format.

Mrs. Pospisil lives alone in an apartment in an old building in Vienna. The elderly lady's increasing forgetfulness prompts her son to suggest that she move into a nursing home. But then suddenly a crack opens up in one of the walls of her apartment, through which something enters Mrs. Pospisil's world that will change her life forever. Paul Ertl's highly efficient and picture-perfect The Crack is a psychologically underpinned mid-length horror miniature that transforms into a utopia as casual as it is original as it is gently disturbing, and is ultimately also a powerful plea for the autonomy of older people.

When the Hungarian Revolution against the Soviets collapses in 1956, two young revolutionaries have to make an impossible decision.