Film archive

Bärbel Neubauer. At the Evolution Festival

13 – 16 May 2009 | Various Venus, Leeds
A festival of experimental film, video and sound in cinemas and art galleries across Leeds. Austrian filmmaker Bärbel Neubauer will be one of the featured filmmakers. She has made more than 40 animation and ...

Joseph Schmidt: A Star Fell From Heaven

12 March 2009, 6.30pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London
presented by Brendan Carroll With rare archival recordings and film clips, Brendan Carroll presents a tribute to one of the most beautiful voices of the 20th century. The tenor Joseph Schmidt was born in 1904 ...

Revanche - CineClub

25 February 2009, 6.30pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London
One of the five nominees competing for the 2009 Oscar in the Best Foreign Language Film category After last year’s Austrian Oscar® success with Die Fälscher (The Counterfeiters), Götz Spielmann’s fourth ...

Mit oder ohne Zucker? . Short Films: Cinematic Art by Young Austrian Filmmakers

1 December 2008 | University of Reading
The Austrian artist Birgit Gassner will show a selection of shorts by young Austrian filmmakers including her own.  All of the films selected have been distinguished or won prices in film festivals and the screening ...

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.