It’s Not About Me
You can't buy courage; you can't buy happiness. An actor who wants to position himself internationally needs both. Lucas Englander, not yet 30 years old, is trying to do just that. He has been…
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Big Badaboom
With these words the actress of "Leeloo" in the movie "The 5th Element", Milla Jovovic, describes the great explosion to which she fell victim as the…
My Nose Is Enormous
In the beginning of April, "Edmond", the movie based on the successful play of the same name by Alexis Michalik, with which he had his debut…
Where Lies Become Truth
What an Austrian politician wanted to be understood as satire was not that well received by journalists and also by the two DoPs and members of…
The Other Monday
...they invited us to two premieres. At the Gartenbaukino one of several screenings of the first episode of the eighth season of "Game of Thrones" took…
The Piano Player
At French railway stations, you could easily bump into a grand piano that invites passers-by to play or listen. Wolfgang Ritzberger explains how this occurrence lead into creating a movie.
The Posting
Walter Gröbchen, music expert, label founder and owner, former Ö3 journalist and certainly one of the "insiders" in copyright matters, caused a lively discussion shortly before…
Connecting Route
By definition, a diagonal connects two points that are far away from each other. The festival of Austrian film connects filmmakers who are - if you…
And the Nut Goes To …
It’s well known that the main prizes at the Diagonale are awarded with a golden nut - and there were a few surprises among the winners…
Small Steps
At the award ceremony of the Austrian Film Prize at the end of January in the Vienna City Hall, the Mayor of Vienna, Michael Ludwig, surprised the audience with a promise to support filmmakers.…
Party Crasher
The fact that on-demand platforms are currently investing a lot of money may be well known - at the AAFP - Producer's Day at the end of November it was even said that television…
Put in the Right Light
Until March 7th, the now 16th Women's Film Festival in the Stadtkino at the Künstlerhaus Wien will offer a special programme dedicated to Margarethe von Trotta…