Film archive

For a Moment Freedom - Repeat Screening

17 February 2010, 7.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London

Special Repeat Screening! For a Moment, Freedom tells of the odyssey of three Iranians and a Kurdish group of refugees. Convincing actors – many of them non-professionals – together with a confident visual style make For a ...

Letter from an Unknown Woman

12 February – 17 March 2010 | BFI Southbank

One of cinema's most achingly poignant romances, Max Ophüls' version of Stefan Zweig's novella is also, despite being shot in a Hollywood studio, one of the great films about fin-de-siècle Vienna ...

For a moment, freedom. Academy award nomination screening

11 February 2010, 7.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London

For a Moment, Freedom tells of the odyssey of three Iranians and a Kurdish group of refugees. Convincing actors – many of them non-professionals – together with a confident visual style make For a Moment, Freedom a ...

The White Ribbon. Academy award nomination screening

4 February 2010, 7.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London

In The White Ribbon, a series of strange retributive acts are perpetrated against the residents of a North German village prior to the outbreak of WWI. Peter Bradshaw writes in The Guardian that: ‘The White ...

Messages from Paradise #1 Egypt: Austria. A documentary film by Daniela Swarowsky and Samuli Schielke

26 – 29 January 2010 | Various venues, UK

In a village in Egypt, young men dream of migrating to Europe where they hope to find money, freedom, and new horizons. In Vienna, Egyptian migrants long for home. Their tales of migration reveal that ...

Entertaining Mr. Sloane

21 January 2010, 7.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London

To accompany Wolf Suschitzky’s photo exhibition the ACF’s CineClub will be screening the 1970 version of Joe Orton’s classic comedy. Murder, homosexuality and sadism are themes of this black comedy focusing on ...

News

2010 Diagonale Film Festival Prizes

The Grand Diagonale Prize for the Best Feature Film went to Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel for “La Pivellina“. “Hana, dul, sed…“ – a fascinating film on North Korean women’s football by Brigitte Weich and Karin Macher – was selected “Best Austrian Documentary 2009/2010“. Winner of the Diagonale Prize “Best Cinematography” was cameraman Christian Berger, cinematographer of Michael Haneke’s “The White Ribbon” for which he was nominated for an Oscar.

Christoph Waltz wins Oscar

Austrian actor Christoph Waltz has won the Academy Award for best supporting actor for his role in Quintin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds. More information about the awards ceremony on oscar.go.com/

Diagonale Film Festival 2010

The annual festival of Austrian Film will take place in Graz from 16 - 21 March 2010. For more information about the festival and their programme please visit www.diagonale.at.

Christoph Waltz wins BAFTA

Austrian actor Christoph Waltz has won the BAFTA for best supporting actor for his role in Inglourious Basterds.