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  • ORF-broadcast of disappearing

    ORF-broadcast of disappearing

    Our documentary DISAPPEARING (Audience Award Diagonale 2022) by Andrina Mračnikar will be broadcast on ORF for the first time: on December 16, 2025, the film will air at 12:00 a.m. on ORF2.

  • “do magic” receives production support from öfi, ffw and orf

    “do magic” receives production support from öfi, ffw and orf

    We are very happy that our documentary DO MAGIC by Vera Lacková has received production support from the Austrian Film Institute, the Vienna Film Fund, and the ORF Film-/Fernsehabkommen. In co-production country Slovakia (with our partner kerekesfilm), we have already secured production commitments from the Slovak Audiovisual Fund, HBO Europe, and Eriac. Production will start in 2026.

  • Umadum in AUSTRIA from Dec. 13th, 2025 on ORF

    Umadum in AUSTRIA from Dec. 13th, 2025 on ORF

    Our first season of the ORF series UMADUM IN AUSTRIA by Alice Karasek, which presents customs, dialects, music, and food from various regions of the country, will air starting December 13, 2025, on ORF Kids! The premiere focuses on the bilingual town of Parndorf and the Burgenland Croatian community.

  • ORF-series “KLIMAKRACH” enters second season with RTR

    ORF-series “KLIMAKRACH” enters second season with RTR

    Following the release of the first season in early 2024, our series KLIMAKRACH will return for a second season on ORF. The project is now also receiving financial support from RTR. The second season is scheduled to air in spring 2026.

  • “Perfect Place” closes financing

    “Perfect Place” closes financing

    We are very happy to announce that we’ve closed financing for our documentary PERFECT PLACE by award-winning Ukrainian director Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk. The co-production with Ukrainian partner Mellivora Production is an in-depth portrait of an actor during wartime and is supported by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Culture, Media and Sport, City of Vienna Culture, Zukunftsfonds of the Republic of Austria, the Ukranian Film Academy & Netflix.

  • Together we grow

    Together we grow

    TOGETHER WE GROW portrays farmers, Chris and Owen, a mixed-race gay couple in
    Philadelphia, and their 7-year-old son Bryan, their groundbreaking work, growing culturally
    important seeds, preserving their stories and fighting for food justice.

    AT, 2026, 90min – in postproduction

    Credits

    Director & concept Ruth Kaaserer
    Camera Isabelle Stachtchenko, Miryam Charles
    Sound Tiago McNicoll-Castro-Lopes, Louis Aka-Trudel
    editor Joana Scrinzi, Ruben Rocha, Ruth Kaaserer
    Producers Jürgen Karasek, Ruth Kaaserer
    Co-Production Cicada Films (AT)

    Shooting Format Kodak S-16mm analogue

    Funding

    Austrian Ministry of Culture and Arts, ÖFIplus, ORF Film/Fernsehabkommen, City of Vienna Culture, Land Tyrol Culture, Land Salzburg Culture , Heinrich Böll-Stiftung, IPMF Local Filmmakers Fund

    A GREEN FILMING PRODUCTION ÖFI+ // GREEN BONUS

  • 600 Raids

    600 Raids

    While Igor’s nephews play police commandos, eleven-year-old Patrik admires the scars of his surrogate father Peter. How can one explain to children what awaits them as Roma in Slovakian society? The film is an intimate portrait of two Roma families affected by police violence and tells of the unconscious transmission of the collective trauma of the Roma and Romnja in Europe.

    AT/SK, 2027, 90min – in postproduction

    Credits

    director & concept Kristina Leidenfrostova
    Camera Marie Zahir
    Sound Denisa Uherová
    EDITOR Marek Bihun
    Dramaturgy Viera Čakanyova
    Producers Alice Karasek, Jürgen Karasek (AT), Matej Sotnik (SK)
    CO-PRODUCTION Guča Films (SK)

    pitches/programs

    Participation
    Jihlava New Visions 2023
    Dokfest Munich Marketplace 2024

    Funding

    Austrian Ministry of Culture and Arts, ÖFIplus, Slovak Audiovisual Fund, City of Vienna Culture, Zukunftsfonds of the Republic of Austria, Kult Minor, Land Burgenland Culture, Slovak Cash Rebate

    A GREEN FILMING PRODUCTION ÖFI+ // GREEN BONUS

  • Perfect Place

    Perfect Place

    Ukrainian actor Ivan Blindar lives on the edge, balancing theater and frontline volunteer work. When his rising stardom coincides with intensified aid projects, he is pushed past his limits – yet he has to carry on… A multi-layered portrait of a driven individual and the longing for normality in wartime.

    AT/UKR, 2027, 90 min – in production

    Credits

    Director & CONCEPT Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk
    Camera Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk, Ivan Morarash
    Sound Mykhailo Zakutsky
    EDITING Gerhard Daurer
    Producers Jürgen Karasek, Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk, Alice Karasek
    Co-production Mellivora Production (UKR)
    Line Producer Mellivora Diana Nazaruk

    Funding

    Austrian Ministry of Culture and Arts, City of Vienna Culture, Zukunftsfonds of the Republic of Austria, Ukrainian Film Academy & Netflix

  • Do Magic

    Do Magic

    For the sake of her daughter’s future, Roma filmmaker Vera Lacková embarks on a journey to break both a personal and a collective curse. In dialogue with Roma witches and scientists, she and her family co-create a fairytale as a working method to rewrite their story. As a hybrid documentary that blends reality with staged fairytale scenes and first-person reflection, the film confronts systemic racism, examines intergenerational trauma, and searches for pathways to healing within the Roma community.

    AT/SK/CZ, 2027, 90 Min – financing

    Credits

    director & concept Vera Lacková
    Camera Denisa Buranová
    Sound Klára Jašková
    Dramaturgy Bernadette Weigel, Jan Gogola ml.
    Producers Jürgen Karasek, Alice Karasek (AT), Vera Lacková, Peter Kerekes, Tereza Tokárová (SK), Tereza Šimiková (CZ)
    Co-production Media Voice (SK), Kerekes Film (SK), Caliber Pictures (CZ)

    pitches/ programs

    Participation
    Ex-Oriente 2023/24 & East Doc Forum 2024
    ProPro 2023
    CIRCLE Women Doc Accelerator 2022
    EFM Doc Toolbox Programme 2022
    American Filmshowcase 2024

    Funding

    Austrian Filminstitute, Vienna Filmfund, Slovak Audiovisualfund, HBO Europe, Kult Minor, Eriac

  • The Inner Circle

    The Inner Circle

    After the end of World War III, a new legal system has been established. When Elsa, who lives in exile, finds out about the murder of her son, she must return to Vienna to decide on the sentence of the convicted perpetrator and is forced to confront her painful past.

    IN DEVELOPEMENT

    Credits

    WritER & DirECTOR Sebastian Schmidl
    DRAMATURGYKlara von Veegh

    Funding

    Film Scholarship from the City of Vienna

  • the satin cage

    the satin cage

    HILDE (75) and her husband OTTO (79) have been happily married for 50 years. But old age has created different circumstances for the two of them. While Hilde feels young and active and still has many expectations of life, Otto suffers from dementia. When Otto’s illness takes a drastic turn one day, Hilde finds herself facing an ever-growing dilemma between her own needs and the necessary care for her husband.

    in Development

    Credits

    WRITER & DIRECTOR Jürgen Karasek
    DRAMATURGY Wolfgang Widerhofer

    Funding

    Scriptlab Drehbuchforum

  • Red Drops

    Red Drops

    JULIA (30) works as a conscientious lifeguard at an outdoor swimming pool in Poland. Nevertheless, as a conservative woman, she is searching for her place in society, which she hopes to finally find by marrying her boyfriend MAREK (32). However, when Marek suddenly breaks up with her, her world falls apart. Julia finds the chance for revenge and a new purpose in life in a patriotic militia that Marek is also a member of. There, she quickly rises to a leadership position. In the process, the gap between the group and her fundamental moral values grows ever wider …

    AT/DE/PL – financing

    Credits

    director & writerFilip Antoni Malinowski
    Co-author Jürgen Karasek

    Awards / Festivals

    Nomination Best Script Sehsüchte Film Festival 2021
    Pitched dokFest München, New Horizons Studio+ Wrocław
    Developedat EKRAN+ Andrzej Wajda School Warszawa

    Funding

    Creative Europe, Austrian Ministry of Culture and Arts, ZDF Kleines Fernsehspiel / ARTE, German-Polish Co-Development Fund, Robert Bosch Stiftung, Literarisches Colloquium Berlin, Drehbuchforum Vienna – Scriptlab scolarship

  • Umadum in Austria

    Umadum in Austria

    “Umadum in Austria” is a documentary journey across Austria that shows children how diverse culture can be. Whether customs, dialects, music, or food—with humor and curiosity, we are right in the heart of things instead of just therby.

    at, 2025 10 x 10 min

    Credits

    Director & concept Alice Karasek

    INFO

    Genre Reportage / Docutainment
    TopicsTradition, culture, cuisine, music & dialects – experienced in a playful way
    Duration 10 minutes
    Episodes 10
    Target Groupt Children (6-10 years), families
    Release 1st seaston December 2025

    Production

    Co-Production with ORF

  • “600 Raids” in production

    “600 Raids” in production

    Our documentary 600 RAIDS by Kristina Leidenfrostova is in production. The Austrian-Slovakian co-production (co-partner: Guča Films) about a Roma family in Slovakia suffering from the consequences of police violence is supported by the Austrian Ministry of Culture, Media and Sports, ÖFIplus, City of Vienna Culture, Burgenland Culture, Zukunftsfonds of the Republic of Austria, Slovak Audiovisual Fund, KultMinor, and the Slovak Cash Rebate.

  • “DO MAGIC” AT EX-ORIENTE AND EAST-DOC

    “DO MAGIC” AT EX-ORIENTE AND EAST-DOC

    Our new project DO MAGIC by director Vera Lacková had its third and final session of the Ex-Oriente workshop in Prague, where it was pitched to the international industry as part of the East Doc Forum. The project is being developed with support from ÖFI and Filmfonds Wien on the Austrian side.

  • Klimakrach – Season 1

    Klimakrach – Season 1

    Climate journalist Clara and loudmouth Waldmar run the channel “Klimakrach”. Here they report on topics related to climate protection and sustainability. But the two don’t quite agree. Who is right and who is completely wrong, or are the causes of scientific phenomena ultimately a little more complex? In the end, they combine the facts and find common ground. Fortunately, they can also count on the support of the interactive children’s community. In addition, the graphic information, the smart database, and the fact-based communication with experts help to clear up any misunderstandings and conflicting ideas.

    AT, 2024 5 x 15 min

    Credits

    Director Alice Karasek
    DoP Christian Haake, Markus Englisch, Dominik Spritzendorfer
    Editing Andreas Brennecke, Anna Heuss, Alina Lichtblau-Wagner
    Cast Clara Porak, Nikolaus Habjan, Angelo Konzett, u.v.a.
    Composer Viktor Gangl
    Set Design Laura Weiss

    INFO

    Genre Climate Journalism for Kids
    Topics Sustainability, Climate protection, Journalism
    Duration 15 Minuten
    Episodes 5
    Target Group 8- 12 Jahre, Family-Edutainment
    Premiere Pilot Diagonale 2023
    Release 1st Season ORF-Kids, since 01.01.2024

    Funding

    Co-Production with ORF, Wirtschaftsgentur Wien

  • “Together we grow” starts shooting on 16mm

    “Together we grow” starts shooting on 16mm

    Filming will soon begin on 16mm for our documentary TOGETHER WE GROW by director Ruth Kaaserer about two activist seed farmers in Philadelphia. The project is financially supported by BMWKMS, ÖFIplus, ORF Film-/Fernsehabkommen, Land Tirol Kultur, Stadt Wien Kultur, Land Salzburg Tirol and the Heinrich Böll Foundation.

  • BUTNSKALA AWARD FOR “DISAPPEARING”

    BUTNSKALA AWARD FOR “DISAPPEARING”

    Another award for DISAPPEARING by Andrina Mračnikar in Slovenia! We are delighted to have received the “Butnskala” award from AIPA (Slovenian Audiovisual Rights Management Society). The “Butnskala” award is given to works of particular boldness and originality that have had a significant impact on the Slovenian audiovisual landscape!

  • Disappearing

    Disappearing

    Roughly ninety percent of the inhabitants in southern Carinthia spoke Slovenian prior to 1910. The average percentage today is in the single digits. In her essayistic documentary, Andrina Mračnikar gives a personal shape to a highly political urgency. What happens when a first language is taken from daily life? What must politics do to counter the disappearance of a language whose protection is established in the constitution? (Diagonale, Astrid Peterle)

    AT/SI, 2022, 99 MIN

    Credits

    Concept & Director Andrina Mračnikar
    DoP Judith Benedikt
    Editor Gerhard Daurer
    Sound Julij Zornik, Bertram Knappitsch, William Eduard Franck, Andreas Hamza
    Composer Peter Kutin
    Production Manager Natalija Hartmann
    Producers Jürgen Karasek, Danijel Hočevar (SI)
    Co-production Vertigo (SI)

    Awards / Festivals

    Winner Audience Award Diagonale 2022 – nationale Premiere
    Winner Vesna for Special Achievments Festival of Slovenian Film Portorož 2022
    Winner Štiglič-Award by the Slovene Directors Guild
    Winner Butnskala Award AIPA

    Kino Otok Izola 2022 – national Premiere Slovenia
    FilmFestival Cottbus 2022 – international Premiere
    Festival des neuen Heimatfilms Freistadt 2022
    Filmfestival Radstadt 2022
    Dokudoc Maribor 2022
    K3 Filmfestival Villach 2022
    Austrian Film Week Israel 2023
    Balkan Film Week Leipzig 2023
    Biennale Bavaria Internat. 2023
    Screenings in: San Pietro al Natisone & Triest in coopearation with Kinoatelje

    Funding

    Production funded by Austrian Ministry for Culture and Arts, ORF Film-/Fernsehabkommen, CarinthiJA2020 (Country of Carinthia), Filmstandort Österreich, Zukunftsfonds of the Republic of Austria, Slovene Film Center, Viba Film Studios, RTV Slovenija

    Trailer

  • “RED DROPS” NOMINATION

    “RED DROPS” NOMINATION

    The screenplay by Filip Antoni Malinowski in collaboration with Jürgen Karasek was nominated as one of five screenplays for the competition “Best Screenplay” at the Sehsüchte Film Festival 2021.

  • Das Künstlerhaus – Uproar I Upheval

    Das Künstlerhaus – Uproar I Upheval

    Almost 150-year-old “Künstlerhaus” – home-building of Austria’s oldest artist’s association needs to be renovated. The documentary DAS KÜNSTLERHAUS – UPROAR / UPHEAVAL shows the challenges of more than three years of construction work. The phase of upheaval also demands from the association to embark on a search for a new identity, with the hope of financial and content-related restructuring. But board members, supporters and critical members repeatedly clash with each other over their different opinions on the general renovation. Will the new “Künstlerhaus” be able to make the most of the restart and assert itself as a cultural institution in Vienna?

    AT, 2020, 45 MIN

    Credits

    Concept & Director Tristan Zahornicky, Alice Karasek
    Idea Tristan Zahornicky
    Producers Jürgen Karasek, Alice Karasek
    DoP Philipp Windsor-Topolsky
    Sound Markus Ortner

    Funding / info

    Cooperation with Tamuna Film
    Co-Production with ORF
    Funded by: Filmfonds Wien, RTR, 1st district of Vienna, 5th district of Vienna

  • The Camping Trip

    The Camping Trip

    14-year-old MAX goes with his father WOLFGANG (45) and his friends on a camping trip in the woods. The two haven´t seen each other since the separation of the parents a few months ago and experience a weekend of rapprochement with beer, men´s talk and masculinity rites. Soon, however, the actual idyll of the trip becomes more and more frightening and the renewed bond between Max and Wolfgang is put to the test.

    AT, 2018, 39 MIN

    Credits

    Cast Enzo Gaier, David Oberkogler, Max Meyr, Peter Karolyi, Christian Spatzek, Simone Fuith, Anna Rot
    Idea & DirectorJürgen Karasek
    Screenplay Timothy Bidwell
    script advisor / artistic advisorAndrina Mračnikar
    DoP Roman Chalupnik (aac)
    Editing Claudia Linzer
    Sound Benedikt Palier, Ines Vorreiter
    Set Design Marie Wildmann
    Producers Jürgen Karasek, Stephan Podest, Filip Antoni Malinowski
    Shooting format ARRI Alexa

    Awards / Festivals

    Winner Thomas Pluch-Screenplay-Award for best short or medium-length film, Diagonale 2018
    Nomination Nomination for: Grand Off World Independent Short Film Awards, Beste Picture: Roman Chalupnik
    Nomination The Big Shorts – the best 10 medium-length-films of 2018 in the german-speaking countries

    Diagonale Filmestival, Graz 2018
    Hofer Filmtage, Hof (D) 2018
    Trujillo Ind. Filmfestival, Trujillo (PER) 2018
    FilmZ Festival des deutschen Films, Mainz (D) 2018
    Sierra Int. Filmweekend, Santa Cruz de la Sierra (BOL) 2018
    Blue Danube Filmfestival, Wien 2018
    Grand Off World Independent Film Awards, Warschau (POL) 2018
    Chhatrapati Shivaji Internat. Filmfestival, Pune (IND) 2018
    Int. Filmfestival of Sriganganagar, Sriganganagar (IND) 2019
    Rapidlon – The South African Filmfestival, Johannisburg (SA) 2019
    Austrian Filmfestival, Wien 2019
    Swindon Independent Filmfestival, Swindon (GB) 2019
    Global India Int. Filmfestival, Pune (IND) 2019
    Festival Cinema du Monde Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke (KAN) 2019

    Funding

    Funded by: Stadt Wien Kultur, Kulturamt Stadt Graz

  • Guardians of the Earth

    Guardians of the Earth

    After 21 years of continuous failure in UN climate change negotiations 195 nations, 20.000 worldwide negotiators meet at a private airport shielded by the military in the north of Paris for a last attempt to save our planet. Behind closed doors these delegates have to agree on the first global climate change agreement that shall operate for the next decades and be a milestone in multilateral diplomacy. An agreement that will impact each human on earth, born or unborn. A negotiation that will decide if we as a species can survive.

    “Guardians of the Earth” shows the battle towards this monumental agreement through the perspective of major players as the head of the UNFCCC, the fossil fuel exporting countries and the most vulnerable states to climate change.

    Unreleased footage gives insight into the process behind closed doors and reveals the conflict of a globalized society: the dilemma between solidarity versus national self-interest – a fight between economic growth and massive loss of lives. As sea levels keep rising, glaciers are melting, heat-waves, droughts and Super-Typhoons become more frequent – time is running out to act – climate change is our reality.

    While showing the complex progress to the final success of the agreement, the film also exposes the crucial question for the viewer: Can mankind unite to challenge the biggest threat of our times?

    AT/DE, 2017, 86 MIN

    Credits

    Director Filip Antoni Malinowski
    Editor Frank Brummundt
    Cinematography Jakob Fuhr, Attila Boa, Filip Antoni Malinowski
    Sound Helge Ole Haack, Peter Rösner, Sergey Martynyuk mit Musik von Nils Frahm
    Producers Jürgen Karasek, Filip Antoni Malinowski
    Co-production Perfect Shot Films, Berlin
    Trainee & Set Management Stephan Podest

    Featuring
    Saleemul Huq (Bangladesch), Christiana Figueres (UNFCCC), Helmut Hojesky (Österreich), Laurent Fabius (COP Präsident), Naomi Klein (Kanada), Peter Woolcott (Australien), Yeb Sano (Philippinen), Carole Dieschbourg (Luxemburg), Ronny Jumeau (Seyschellen), Noora al-Alamer (Bahrain), Tony deBrum (Marshallinseln), John Kerry (USA), Al Gore (USA), Arnold Schwarzenegger (Österreich), Donald Trump (USA)

    Awards / Festivals – Selection

    Participant of Zagreb Dox Pitch, Leipzig Co-production Meeting, Baltic Sea Forum for Docs, Marketplace dokfest München

    CPH:DOX Kopenhagen, One World Prague, Dokpoint Helsinki, Watch Docs Warschau, Diagonale Graz, DocsMX Mexiko, Movies That Matter The Hague, Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest, This Human World Film Festival Wien, Transitions Film Festival Melbourne, Cinemaambiente Torino, ECOCUP Moskau, EUCFF China, Washington DC Environmental Film Festival, European Climate Diplomacy Week Sydney & Canberra, Stanford University FF, European Film Festival Paliíc, Climate Diplomacy Week Belgrade, New Earth International Film Festival Kraków, Green Fest Belgrade Serbia, New Way FF Madrid, Move It! Dresden, Rokumentti FF Helsinki, China International Film Week, Instidoc Maputo Mozambique, EU Climate Diplomacy Day – Islamabad, Pakistan, Glocal FF Schweden, COP 24 Katowice, Festival Internacional de Cine Ambiental de Cali  FINCALI, Colombia, Human Rights Nights Bologna, Italy, Inkafest Peru, CliMates Austria, Eco Film Festival London, Wake Up Europe: Turin, London, Berlin, Brüssel, Paris, Madrid, Göthe Institut, Extinction Rebellion Berlin, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Chile, Another Way FF & MK2: Madrid, Sevilla, Cordoba, Badajoz, Cadiz, Malaga, Toledo, Take One Action (UK), COP26 Glasgow

    Funding

    Austrian Filminstitute, MEDIA Creative Europe, German Federal Filmboard, ORF Film & Fernsehabkommen, Bayerischer Rundfunk BR, FFF Bavaria, DFFF, Misereor Stiftung

    Trailer

  • Gwendolyn

    Gwendolyn

    Gwendolyn is in her mid-sixties, barely weighs 52 kg and is a three-time world champion in weightlifting. Battling an aggressive form of cancer, the retired anthropologist should really take a step back, but this is far from what Gwendolyn has in mind. She is training to become world champion once again. Supported by her devoted trainer Pat, her son Joseph and her husband Charlie, 20 years her junior, her fight against physical and personal limits begins.

    AT, 2017, 85 MIN

    Credits

    concept & director Ruth Kaaserer
    Cinematography Serafin Spitzer
    Sound Tong Zhang
    Editor Joana Scrinzi
    Producers Jürgen Karasek, Filip Malinowski

    Awards / Festivals

    Nomination Silver Eye Award Jihlava 2017
    Erste Bank Mehrwert-AwardViennale 2017
    Winner Franz-Grabner-Award 2018
    Winner Best Camera (Documentary) Diagonale 2018 for Serafin Spitzer
    Winner Best Editing (Documentary) Diagonale 2018 for Joana Scrinzi

    DOK Leipzig 2017 (World Premiere, official Competition)
    Viennale 2017 (Austrian Premiere)
    IDFA Panorama 2017
    Diagonale 2018
    One World Prague 2018
    Kiew Docudays UA 2018
    Filmfestival Millenium Brüssel 2018
    Sofia International FF 2018
    Festival Finale Plzen 2018
    Anthology Film Archives, New York 2018
    Raindance, London 2018
    Cambridge Filmfestival 2018
    Fünf-Seen-Filmfestival 2018
    Filmplus Köln 2018
    Dok Film Woche FSK Kino, Berlin 2018
    Close Up Film Center, London 2019

    funding

    Austrian Ministry of Culture and Arts, Land Tyrol Culture, Land Styria Culture, City of Vienna Culture, Land Salzburg Culture, Otto Mauer Fonds

    Trailer

  • Namrud (Troublemaker)

    Namrud (Troublemaker)

    Jowan Safadi, an Israeli Palestinian living in Haifa, is a well-known musician in the Middle East and a true free spirit. With his band Fish Samak, he delivers songs that contain political and socially critical as well as emotional and philosophical contexts. Jowan is not afraid to express his thoughts freely, even when addressing taboo topics. His lyrics—profound and provocative—have provoked controversial reactions in many ways: on the one hand, he was charged with “incitement to terrorism” by the Israeli police; on the other hand, his last tour through Jordan ended in prison and accusations of incitement.

    Recently, however, his 15-year-old son Don moved in with him. Now Jowan faces a whole new challenge: on the one hand, he must continue to fight for his ideals and his music, but at the same time he must also take on paternal responsibilities and provide his son with a suitable environment.

    AT, 2017, 95 MIN

    Credits

    Director Fernando Romero-Forsthuber
    Editor Wolfgang Auer
    Cinematography Jakob Fuhr, Martin Putz, Falko Lachmund, Rabia Salfiti
    Sound Feras Shehadeh
    Concept Ari Y. Richter, Jürgen Karasek
    Producers Jürgen Karasek, Filip Antoni Malinowski

    Awards / Festivals / PITCHES

    Best Documentary Frontdoc FF 2018, IT

    DOK Leipzig 2017, DE | Haifa Independent FF 2018, IL | Crossing Europe FF 2018, AT | Ethnocineca FF 2018, AT | CinéDOC-Tbilisi FF 2018, GE | DocsBarcelona FF 2018, ES | DOK.fest München 2018, DE | Festival Internacional de Cine Político 2018, AR | Festival Internacional de Cine por los Derechos Humanos 2018, CO | Fünf Seen Filmfestival 2018, DE | NAFA Int. Ethnographic Film Festival 2018, RO | WOMEX 2018, ES | International Festival of Mediterranean Documentary and Reportage 2018, FR | Festival DocsBarcelona Valparaíso 2018, CL | DokuBaku Int. Documentary FF 2018, AZ | Arab Film Festival 2018, DE | Cinemed Festival 2018, FR | DUHOK Int. FF 2018, IQ | Frontdoc FF 2018, IT | Marda Loop Justice FF 2019, CA

    Developed at: CoPro TelAviv, dokfest Munich Marketplace, East European Forum Prague, Medimed Sitges

    Funding

    Austrian Ministry of Culture and Arts, City of Vienna Culture

    Trailer

  • I see a Darkness

    I see a Darkness

    What happens if you really need to decide once in life? If this decision changes everything forever? The clock is ticking in her stomach. Nobody knows about it. Maybe it’s better like that, because we don´t want to remember mistakes. Carmen is pregnant. Carmen is afraid. Carmen would like to abort. Her subconscious responds – and gives her the chance to question everything.

    AT, 2015, 20 MIN

    Credits

    Writer & Director Jasmin Baumgartner
    Producers Jürgen Karasek, Filip Antoni Malinowski, Jasmin Baumgartner, Anna Hawliczek, Emanuel Schreiner
    Cinematography Anna Hawliczek
    Editing Georg Vogler
    Co-production Evil Frog (AT) & One Delta Ten Tango (AT)
    Cast Jasna Fritzi Bauer (best young actress Max Ophüls 2013), Johanna Orsini-Rosenberg (best actress Diagonale 2013), Gerald Hoffmann (Gerard), Daniel Sträßer, Wilhelm Mang, Karin Lischka, Simone Fuith, Haymon Maria Buttinger, Nychos the Weird

    Awards / Festivals

    WINNER Best Student FilmNoida International Film Festival (India), 2016
    NOMINATION Energa Camerimage Student Etudes Competition 2016

    Akbank Short Film Festival (Turkey), 2016
    Independent Days International Filmfestival, Karlsruhe, 2016
    Fresh – Student Media Festival of Wales, 2016
    Near NazaretH Festival (Israel), 2016

    Funding

    City of Vienna Culture, Land Lower Austria Culture, City of Salzburg Culture, VAM, Vienna Filmacademy, CineArt Styria, Landesjugendreferat Styria, Cash for Culture, City of Graz Cultural Department

  • The Dam

    The Dam

    Catherine and Chris are a couple for years. To escape the city and the routines of everyday life, they make a trip to a dam surrounded by the landscape of the Alps.

    Soon tensions between the two are noticeable. But all discrepancies are forgotten when the two meet during the hike on an abandoned, 7-year old girl. When asked where her parents are, she does not answer. The events of the next few hours will show Catherine her true feelings about Chris.

    AT, 2015, 30 MIN

    Credits

    writer & DirectorNikolaus Müller
    CastSami Loris, Julia Schranz
    DoPRoman Chalupnik (aac)
    Production ManagerDaniela Scheidbach
    Co-production Wütherich Film
    ProducersNikolaus Müller, Filip Antoni Malinowski, Jürgen Karasek
    Distribution Aug & Ohr

    Awards / Festivals

    winner President’s Award – Shortini Film Festival (Competition, Italy) 2015
    winner Platinum Remi Award – International Festival “Sarajevo Winter 2016” (Official Selection, Bosnia & Herzegovina) 2016

    Diagonale Film Festival (Competition, Graz, Austria) 2015
    Festival Du Cinéma De Brive (Competition Medium-Length Film, France) 2015
    Vienna Independent Shorts (Competition, Austria) 2015
    Int. Filmfestival Of Valencia Cinema Jove (Competition, Spain) 2015
    North Carolina Film Awards (Official Selection, Raleigh, USA) 2016
    Tetova International Film Festival Oda (Competition, Macedonia) 2015
    Filmfestival Münster 2015 (Competition, Germany) 2015
    Meetings Of Young European Cinema (Competition, Bulgaria) 2015
    Film Fest Gent (Official Selection, Belgium) 2015
    Izmir Short Film Festival (Off-Competition, Turkey) 2015
    Madurai Film Festival (Official Selection, India) 2016
    Mumbai Shorts Int’L Film Festival (Official Selection, India) 2015
    Istanbul Int’L Short Film Festival (Official Selection, Turkey) 2016
    Annual Worldfest Houston (Nominated For Remi Award (No Screening), Texas, USA) 2016
    High Desert International Film Festival (Official Selection, Nevada, USA) 2016
    Sotto Le Stelle Dell’Austria (Official Selection, Rome, Italy) 2016
    Portobello Fim Festival (Official Selection, London, Uk) 2016

    Funding

    Austrian Ministry for Culture and Arts, City of Vienna Culture, Land Vorarlberg Culture

  • Darling

    Darling

    “Darling” is the story of a couple facing the ruins of what used to be a happy relationship. Tamara is intending on finally breaking up with Hans. Spending a last weekend together they clash with each other once again; letting them clearly know why their relationship failed. But at the same time they have to realize that going separate ways is harder than they had ever thought…

    AT, 2015, 40 MIN

    Credits

    writer & directorSebastian Schmidl
    CastAndreas Kiendl, Anna Rot, Johannes Thanheiser, Andreas Patton, Melanie Mezzina
    DoPGeorg Weiss
    EditingLisa Geretschläger
    Production ManagerAlexandra Makarová
    Set ManagerTina Tiefnig
    ProducersAlexandra Makarová, Georg Weiss, Sebastian Schmidl, Lisa Geretschläger
    Co-ProducersJürgen Karasek, Filip Antoni Malinowski

    Awards / Festivals

    nominationFirst Steps Award – Best Medium-Length Film
    Grand Prix Best Film & Audience AwardKyoto International Student Filmfestival
    Best Film PrizeFilmz – Festival of German Cinema – Mainz
    Prize for Best Script La Cabina Festival Internacional de Mediometrajes – Valencia

    Diagonale – Austrian Premiere
    Max Ophüls Filmfestival – International Premiere
    Sehsüchte Filmfestival Berlin
    Philadelphia Independent Filmfestival
    Lucania Filmfestival Matera

    Funding

    Austrian Ministry of Culture and Arts, City of Vienna Culture, Land Lower Austria Culture

  • Olya’s Love

    Olya’s Love

    “Olya’s Love” is a film about a lesbian couple living in Russia. Olya is a fighter, active member of the LGBT-community, her partner Galiya doesn´t want to let politics rule her life. Their love is strong, and they want to have a baby together. When Russian Duma launches their discriminating laws against homosexuals, Olya starts to fight even stronger. But at the same time their love is put to the test.

    AT/RU, 2014, 68/52 MIN

    Credits

    Director & DoPKirill Sakharnov
    CastOlya Kuracheva, Galiya Galeeva
    EditingMaxim Kliewer (aea), Kirill Sakharnov
    SoundHorst Schnattler
    ProducersKsenia Sakharnova, Filip Antoni Malinowski, Jürgen Karasek, Vlad Ketkovich
    Co-productionbetween Soleil Film (AT), SugarDocs (RU), Ethnofund (RU)

    Awards / Festivals

    IDFA Amsterdam 2014 – World Premiere
    Artdoc Fest Moskau 2014
    This Human World FF Wien 2014
    Riga International Documentary Filmfestival 2014
    LGBT History Month Bukarest 2015
    Tamyn Naiskulttuuripäivät 2015
    50 Shades of Feminism, Tampere 2015
    Diagonale Filmfestival Graz 2015
    Filmfestival Assen 2015
    Boston LGBT Filmfestival 2015
    Krakow Filmfestival 2015
    Biografilmfestival International Celebration of Lives, Bologna 2015
    Frameline 39 LGBTQ San Francisco 2015
    Oslo/Fusion International Filmfestival 2015
    DokumentArt Filmfestival Neubrandenburg 2015
    Chicago LGBTQ+ International Filmfestival 2015
    MIX Copehnhagen 2015
    Kju_Point Filmfestival Halle 2015
    Side by Side International LGBT Filmfestival St. Petersburg 2016
    Barcelona International Human Rights film festival 2016
    TLV Fest – TelAviv LGBT Filmfestival 2016
    Bergen Pride 2016

    Special Screenings

    #Respect Diversity by Amnesty International, Wien, Mai 2015
    Sixpack 4×2, Dokumentarfilmtage IV, Wien, Oktober 2015

    Trailer

  • Between Limelight & Red Light

    Between Limelight & Red Light

    A documentary time travel through ups and downs of Vienna nightlife focusing on the Burlesque scene. Prominent figures of the last century talk about their life and specify the balancing act between art form and entertainment, glory and disrespect. A bizarre, exciting and authentic, a social résumé of the 20th Century.

    AT, 2014, 53 MIN

    Credits

    DirectorKaroline T. Heflin
    conceptKaroline T. Heflin, Alice Karasek
    cameraRoman Chalupnik, Filip Antoni Malinowski and Chris Kirdall’s Archive footage
    SoundSergey Martynyuk

    Info

    Premiere ORF 07.12.2014 23h05 dokfilm
    DistributionORF Enterprise

    Produkcion / Ffunding

    Co-Production with ORF
    funded by: Vienna Filmfund, RTR

  • Sola

    Sola

    Sola is the last survivor in Vienna – the city is hers. Without electricity or running water she lives a dreary routine. She strays around through abandoned homes – always in search of food and possible survivors. Yet there is no lack of necessities, but solitude drives her in an increasingly critical state. The only saving grace in their empty world is music. Every day she goes for one hour in a church to play the organ – even though she never had practice before. One day Sola makes a long-awaited discovery and hope lights for her again…

    AT, 2013, 20 Min

    Credits

    CastMelanie Mezzina, Larissa Sabitzer
    Written & DirectedAlexandra Makarová
    CinematographyGeorg Weiss
    EditingLisa Geretschläger
    Sound designKaroline T. Heflin
    Script SupervisionRobert Buchschwenter
    ComposingWerner Weitschacher
    ProducersJürgen Karasek, Filip Antoni Malinowski, Sebastian Schmidl, Alexandra Makarová, Georg Weiss, Lisa Geretschläger
    CO-PRODUCTION Geretschläger / Makarova / Weiss / Schmidl (AT)

    Awards / Festivals

    Winner Best Actress Melanie Mezzina La Pedrera Short Film Festival, 2014
    Winner Honorable MentionDiagonale Filmfestival Graz, 2014
    Winner Special Mention FIC International Film Festival, Buenos Aires
    NOMINationFilmplus Award (Filmschnitt & Schnittkunst) für Lisa Geretschläger

    Edinburgh Film Festival, 2013 – World Premiere
    Créteil Int’l Women’s Film Festival, 2014
    Versi di Luce FF, 2014
    Vienna Independent Shorts, 2014
    Österreichisches Kulturforum Prag

    Funding

    City of Vienna, Culture

  • Resettlement

    Resettlement

    A unique Polish couple in their 80s. After living for 66 years in their flat they have to move out. While Maria is an extraordinary spirit full of un-dominable optimism and vitality – Tadeusz is a silent scientist and a fatalist. Now they have to fight their existential disaster that unveils the touching stories of their life and casts a shadow over their present. It’s a film about justice and equality – the crisis of morality in past and present modern society, as well as about how to get old – staying young.

    AT/PL, 2012, 76/56 min

    Credits

    Concept & Director & doP & editor Filip Antoni Malinowski
    Additional Editing Julia Pontiller, Stefan Hahn
    Script Consultant Rolf Orthel
    Associate Producer Carlo Pisani
    Co-productionMalina Film (PL)

    Awards / Festivals

    Special Jury Prize Festiwal Mediow Lodz 2012
    Honorable Mention Off Cinema Poznan 2012
    Winner Best Documentary Prize EKRAN Toronto FF 2013
    Appreciation Award of Fine Art Academy of Fine Arts Vienna 2012
    Winner Best Film DYI Filmfest Warsaw 2013

    Krakow International Film Festival – World Premiere
    Unabhängiges Filmfest Osnabrück (competition)
    This Human World Human Rights Film Festival Vienna (competition) 
    Planete DOC Review Warsaw & Wrocław 
    goEast Wiesbaden FF (competition)
    OFF Plus Camera Kraków, Polish Film Festival of America Chicago
    OFF Cinema Festival Poznań (competition, awarded)
    FilmPolska München, Seattle Polish Film Festival
    Człowiek w Zagrożeniu Łódź (competition, awarded)
    Cinema Perpetuum Mobile FF Minsk, Kamera Akcja Łódź
    TNR Tarnowska Nagroda Filmowa (competition)
    Transatlantyk Poznań (competition)
    FilmPolska Berlin
    Diagonale Graz (competition)
    Guth Gafa Ireland
    Human Doc Warsaw (competition)
    Filmfest Rejected Innsbruck (competition)
    DIY Filmfest (winner, best film)
    Lubskie Lato Filmowe Łagów (competition)
    Forum of European Cinema Cinergia Łódź (competition)
    Filmowa Góra Zielona Góra, Vancouver Polish Film Festival
    EKRAN Toronto Polish FF (competition, winner best doc film)
    Solanin Film Festival, Polnische Filmwoche Erlangen
    PLAY Poland Film Festival UK
    Polish FF Los Angeles
    Delai International Documentary Film Festival Moscow
    Flahertiana International Documentary Film Festival Perm, Russia

    funding

    Austrian Ministry of Culture and Arts (Innovative Film)

    Trailer

  • H.I.JEW POSITIVE

    H.I.JEW POSITIVE

    “I am H I Jew positive!” Jurek, a Polish student, has just discovered that he is Jewish and describes his feelings about his newly discovered identity. Almost every day, Poles raised as Catholics discover that their parents have hidden their true identity and that they are originally of Jewish origin and thus belong to the second and third generation of Holocaust survivors. The film begins 14 years ago and accompanies three people from the moment they discover their new identity and follows their lives in a country where the Jewish faith still has to contend with prejudice.

    AT/ISR, 2013, 80/52 MIN

    Credits

    Director & concept Ronit Kertsner
    Producers Filip Antoni Malinowski, Jürgen Karasek, Ronit Kertsner

    Awards / Festivals

    World Premiere Jerusalem Film Festival 2014
    European PremiereKrakow International Film Festival 2014

    Temple Beth El 2019, USA
    The Spiro Ark 2016, USA
    Highland Park Temple 2015, USA
    The Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw 2014, Poland
    United Orthodox Synagogues of Houston 2014, USA
    Zagreb Jewish Film Festival 2014, Croatia
    Australia Jewish Film Festival 2014, Australia

    Funding

    Yesdocu Israel

  • Novemberlights

    Novemberlights

    Manuel is nine years old. His parents are divorced, living with their new partners and Manuel fears that he belongs nowhere. One night he finds trust in a dangerous stranger. A film about the power of the parents and the consequences of disregarding their roles.

    AT, 2012, 30 Min

    Credits

    Director Jürgen Karasek
    Camera Roman Chalupnik (aac)
    Editing Antonia Adelsberger, Julia Pontiller
    Sound design Norbert Bichler
    Music Oliver Hödl
    Script Consulting Andrina Mračnikar
    Cast Markus Urban, Stefan Matousch, Karin Lischka, Erol Nowak, Barbara Horvath, Martin Oberhauser uvm.
    Producers Jürgen Karasek, Filip Antoni Malinowski

    Awards / Festivals

    Thomas Pluch Scriptwriting Appreciation AwardBest Script – Diagonale 2013
    Junior Performance Award for Markus UrbanInternational Film Awards Berlin 2013
    Best International Short FilmFestival Internacional de Cinema e Saúde Mental 2013
    Honorable Mention Best PictureFlathead Lake International Cinemafest, Polson (USA) 2014
    Best Short FilmFestival Internacional de Ciné Rengo, Rengo (CHI) 2014
    Nomination Best International Short FilmBester Internationaler Kurzfilm, Pielagos en Corto (ESP) 2015

    World Premiere Max Ophüls Filmfestival, Saarbrücken (GER) 2013
    Life Fest Filmfestival, Los Angeles (USA) 2013
    Colortape International Filmfestival, Brisbane (AUS) 2013
    FEST New Films / New Directors, Espinho (POR) 2013
    CGIFF Angaelica, Washougal (USA) 2013
    International Filmfestival for Peace, Inspiration and Equality, Jakarta (IDN) 2013
    Cinncinati Filmfestival, Cinncinati (USA) 2013
    International Film Awards Berlin, Berlin (GER) 2013
    Prifilm Festival, Pristina (KOS) 2013
    Tashkinofest, Tashkent (UZB) 2013
    Festival Internacional de Cinema e Saúde Mental, Faro (POR) 2013
    Tirana International Filmfestival, Tirana (ALB) 2013
    Festival de Cortometrajes de Talca, Talca (CHI) 2014
    Flathead Lake International Cinemafest, Polson (USA) 2014
    The John Hopkins Filmfestival, Baltimore (USA) 2014
    Richmond International Filmfestival, Richmond (USA) 2014
    Geneva Filmfestival, Geneva (USA) 2014
    Black Hills Filmfestival, Hill City (USA) 2014
    Derby Film Festival, Derby (UK) 2014
    Festival Cortometrajes Rodinia (ESP) 2014
    Madrid International Filmfestival, Madrid (ESP) 2014
    Cine Curtas Bodega Cultural, Florianopolis (BRA) 2014
    Festival Internacional de Ciné Rengo, Rengo (CHI) 2014
    CineMart Pineda de Mar, Barcelona (ESP) 2014
    Lighthouse International Filmfestival, Long Island (USA) 2014
    Southside Filmfestival, Betlehem (USA) 2014
    Baghdad International Filmfestival, Baghdad (IRQ) 2014
    Lake Champlain International Filmfestival, Plattsburgh (USA) 2014
    Internacional Pielagos en Corto (ESP) 2015

    Funding

    Stadt Wien Kultur

  • Love Trips

    Love Trips

    Love Trips is a documentary film about couples living in long-distance relationships across modern Europe—a testament to human resilience—despite differences and great distances. The film presents itself as a multifaceted portrayal of individual experiences that ultimately find common ground in their similarities. The story of love: the joy of finding each other, the discovery of love, understanding, routine, crisis, and finally rebirth on a more mature level.

    AT/CH, 2011, 65/52 MIN

    Credits

    Director Carlo Pisani
    Co-Production with Rebel Mango
    Producers Filip Antoni Malinowski, Jürgen Karasek, Carlo Pisani

    Awards / Festivals

    Nomination Cross-Media Pitches: Power to the Pixel, London 2011
    Lucerne Film Festival
    Film Festival Kitzbühel
    Globians Filmfest Berlin

    Production / Funding

    Supported by European Cultural Foundation

  • Waiting for the moon

    Waiting for the moon

    “Again and again I have this dream. After all those years I know every single detail. And maybe it is the most important story of my life.”

    This is the dream of an old man, the memories of a forbidden love 1000 years ago, long before our time. He tells this last secret to his granddaughter, the story of Aiana and Janas who had to escape from the king’s knights and the tragic consequences of their love. 1000 years later, in our present, a young couple is in a car on the journey to nowhere. Anna and Julian, both in their 20s are enjoying the ride and their freedom. It seems as if they were escaping the monotony of daily life in the city, to start somewhere else completely new. Anna starts reading a book, and soon it is obvious that she is the granddaughter who heard the old mans dream long ago. After many years she found the book, where he had written down this story. Slowly the two stories, the escape from everyday life and the escape from the tragic consequences of a forbidden love, develop, but soon they even start to merge. Dream and reality become one and in the end find the meaning and the common essence.

    AT, 2008, 72 Min

    Credits

    Written & Directed Jürgen Karasek
    Camera Filip Antoni Malinowski
    editor Antonia Adelsberger
    Cast Nina Blum, Valentin Schreyer, Christopher Schärf, Ernst Stankovski, Mira Miljkovic, Jutta Fastian
    Producers Jürgen Karasek, Filip Antoni Malinowski

    Producer’s Note

    “Waiting for the moon” was produced with a total budget of € 55,000.

    Awards / Festivals

    Nomination UNDINE 2008 – Valentin Schreyer for Best Young Actor

    Diagonale Graz, 2008
    Santa Cruz Filmfestival, 2007
    Metaphysical Filmfest Santa Fe, 2008
    Filmriss Salzburg, 2008

    Funding

    Austrian Ministry for Culture and Arts (Innovative Film), City of Vienna Culture, Land Lower Austria Culture