Ignaz Wuzel and Gerhard Jeschko are regulars at the espresso in the Südtiroler Platz underground station. Warden Leopold Prinz knows the problems of the children from Karlsplatz. In 1993, Elizabeth T. Spira filmed people on the Vienna subway network. Above all, it is the desperate, the lost and the forgotten who find refuge and a home in and around the subway.
Two friends, two Viennese, two poets, two unusual women. They have known each other for 30 years. El...

In the 1930’s, the workers of the underground, headed by brigades of writers, are in charge to write...

Filmmaker Ulrich Seidl explores of the dark underside of the human psyche by entering Austrian basem...
This film journeys deep into the heart of Austria’s favorite daily newspaper, the Kronen Zeitung, th...

A Zen priest in San Francisco and cookbook author use Zen Buddhism and cooking to relate to everyday...

A funny walk through the life story of Billy Wilder (1906-2002), a cinematic genius; a portrait of a...
Words are loaded with meaning. Certain ones conjure joyful memories and others remind us of less hap...

A documentary that exposes the shocking truths behind industrial food production and food wastage, f...

An experimental film following a trip made by three friends in which the contrast between the agitat...

A staged TV portrait of the Austrian cartoonist Gerhard Haderer; and first collaboration with Maria ...

In an observation over four seasons THE STANDSTILL shows Vienna and its surroundings along with enco...

The four Afghan refugees who have applied for asylum in Austria strike up the song, “The caravan mov...

A working day in Austria, 2004. Nine modern working-class heroes are engaged in their daily struggle...