Lukas Weiss

Aboard a ship, back when terrible pirates roamed the seven seas, a child, Mo, grows up with a crew of ragtag seadogs and the ship’s pet… goat. Having grown up into a brave girl, Mo must wrestle with her father’s career of piracy and overcome trials as she seeks to understand the enigma of her origin. Captured by the evil pirate Peg-Leg Olle, Mo bumps into cabin boy Hannes. Together with him, Claas and his motley crew, brave Mo will have to defeat Olle and find the Blood Red Blood Ruby of Doom, to restore peace and harmony to the land. Pirate Mo is a swashbuckling adventure full of heart, guts, and hope for a better world, led by a young girl whose goodness is matched only by her derring-do.

„Alone against the mob? Solo against the jobcentre? Classic suicide mission.” That much Mr Berger knows, working at the jobcentre phone support line. But fortunately, Marie is not alone, after she loses her job aged 58. She has gathered a highly specialized troop of long-term unemployed people, and together they can achieve anything.

As part of an unusual farewell ritual, two siblings end up at a Chinese restaurant. Both feel guilty after the recent death of their mother and find it difficult to broach the subject. At another table a father improves his daughter’s homework, at the next a date goes wrong, and somewhere in between, the server’s collar bursts. Though the tables are close together, the siblings hardly notice the little dramas taking place.

Autumn, as we all know, is when (over-)ripe things fall. Hollow political rhetoric about culture, for example, but also one-dimensional ideas about love and desire.

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.