The Austrian Cultural Forum invites you to the 8th edition of the Austrian Film Week in Israel.
This year’s selection revolves around the notion of identity, the yearning for justice and the pursuit of self-determination while joining remarkable characters as they tell their stories.
In “Schächten – A Retribution” by director Thomas Roth, Viktor, a young Holocaust survivor from Vienna witnesses how the prosecution of a Nazi crime against his family fails. He begins to lose faith in formal justice and takes matters in his own hands. This stirring drama portrays the struggles of the post-war generation to obtain justice for Holocaust crimes.
Kurdwin Ayub’s vibrant movie “Sonne” is plugged directly into the modern Viennese diaspora, attempting to reframe experience of Muslim adolescents. The film depicts a 17-year-old Kurdish girl who finds her already fractured religious and cultural identity put under increasing pressure when a video she makes with her (non-Muslim) friends goes viral.
Gastón Solnicki’s “A Little Love Package” follows Angeliki and her life between the Mediterranean south and landlocked Austria, as she intends to buy an apartment in Vienna with help from her interior designer friend Carmen. The film is a subtle and witty homage to the Austrian capital that discovers bygone splendor in ordinary things.
In her essayistic documentary “Disappearing”, Andrina Mračnikar embarks on a personal search for clues for the gradual disappearance of the Slovene culture and language in Austria’s southernmost province Carinthia over the past 100 years. The film is an intriguing insight into an integral part of Austria’s modern history and analyzes what it takes to protect a minority, its language and culture – for the benefit of the country as a whole.
In “The Farmer and the Hipster” director Kurt Langbein follows the story of a mountain farmer from Styria who invites a journalist from Vienna to get to know his world and to make him realize what it takes to provide urban hipsters with their much-loved organic produce. The entertaining, emotional and earnest documentary aims at sharpening the understanding for the circumstances of agriculture in the 21st century and the struggle for sustainable and individual farming to withstand industrial pressure.
