Austria 2008, 52 sec, language: without dialogue
director, cast: Nikolaus Eckhard
Short and to the point: in a matter of seconds Nikolaus Eckhard eats up 28 loafs of bread – with just one swift movement of the hand. A tongue-in-cheek commentary on impermanence, with a touch of revulsion.

Austria 2008, 17 min, language: German
director, screenplay, editor: Alex Trejo | production: Alex Trejo, Maria Heinze | photography: Benjamin Klein | cast: Erik Ritschl, Alexander Morandini, Katrin Thurm
A dog turns up on a family’s doorstep. The boy desperately wants to keep him and spends all his time with him. But everything has an end – as does his love of this dog. A short drama, consistently told from the boy’s perspective, by Alex Trejo.

Austria 2009, 2 min, language: English
director, production, photography, editor: Bernadette Weigel | music: Oliver Maklott
World politics as a video game: Bernadette Weigel uses the ongoing Obama-Mania in a short animation with game-aesthetics, whose images invite associations with Kennedy and his former popularity.

Austria/Switzerland 2008, 5 min, language: German
director, animation: Pascale Osterwalder | music: Christoph und Lollo
The animated film by Pascale Osterwalder catapults us back in time to 1848, when the Viennese people rebelled against the minister of war. The accompaniment from two singing gentlemen (Christoph & Lollo) makes this film a history lesson with a difference.

Austria 2008, 11 min, language: without dialogue
directors, concept: Julia Drack, Klemens Hufnagl | production: David Bohun | photography: Klemens Hufnagl | editor: Julia Drack | music: Marcus Hufnagl, Martin Rotheneder
Shanghai as the most modern city in the world: dawn of the people, dawn of the city. Meanwhile, the building-boom goes on. An experimental documentary by Klemens Hufnagl and Julia Drack that wows you with its fantastic montage.

Austria 2006, 2 min, language: without dialogue
directors, screenplay, production, photography, editors: Miriam Raggam, Barbara Wilding | music: Victor Halbnarr
A line can connect, a line can also separate everything: in Miriam Raggam’s and Barbara Wilding’s animation, 572 ropes capture a moment in a journey between two places. A film on the border between elusive rambling and wistful disappearance.

Austria 2008, 9 min, language: German
director, screenplay, production, editor: Birgit Bergmann | photography: Caroline Bobek
“Apart from street lights, street cars also always fascinated me as a child.” A lawyer makes his dream (job) come true by becoming a tram driver. What is part of the daily grind for many is the best thing in the world for him. Congenial documentary by Birgit Bergmann.

Austria 2009, language: English, subtitles: German
director, screenplay, production, editor: László Váncsa | photography: Steve Scholl
Former dancer Grant McDaniel talks about the most important phases in his life and the transitions between them. László Váncsa finds beautiful formal analogies in photographs, moving pictures and dance.

Austria 2008, 5 min, language: without dialogue
director, screenplay, production, editor: Georg Steinböck | photography: Ralf Jacobs
From the cradle to the grave: birth and death are connected to the same ritual of cleansing. In his short documentary and with split screen technique, Georg Steinböck shows both of these practices next to each other – curious, sober and without emotion.

Austria 2008, 12 min, language: German
director: Harald Traindl | screenplay: Severin Fiala | production: Theres Seemann | photography: Lisa Peer | editor: Tobi Wider | sound editor: Claudia Linzer | cast: Michael Werner, Karin Pettenburger, Birgit Bergmann
A family hides in an air-raid shelter. The provisions are running out, the father regularly abuses his daughter. One day he lies dead in his bed, ruin commences. An oppressive film by Harald Traindl about what remains when nothing remains.