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Feb 14–21 Feb 14–21 Feb 17–19

BY VERONIKA FRANZ & SEVERIN FIALA Upper Austria in 1750: Agnes, a young married woman, doesn't feel at home in her husband's world. The deeply religious and highly sensitive woman withdraws into herself, moving further and further away from the rural world of work and everyday life.

Ultimately, a shocking act of violence seems to be the only way out of her inner prison.

This profound and disturbing psychogramm of a woman who hopes, searches and finally flees is based on historical records and charts a true, previously unexplored chapter of European (women's) history.

AT, DE 1121 min Ulrich Seidl Film with coop99 World Sales: Play.time International Press: WOLF Consultants Screenings Feb 20 18:30 Berlinale Palast WP Feb 21 09:30 Verti Music Hall Feb 21 22:00 Verti Music Hall Feb 25 16:00 Berlinale Palast Market Screenings I lnvitation only

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BY RUTH BECKERMANN "Beid, Hafsa, Melissa, Manessa, Mohammad ... 25 children and their teacher. We wanted to find out who they are... to discover their skills and strategies, their joys, fears, wants and needs." More than 60% of all children in Viennese elementary schools do not have German as their first language. At the same time, there is an acute shortage of teachers and tutors. These adverse conditions are the starting point for Ruth Beckermann's FAVORITEN, in which the filmmaker accompanies a Viennese elementary school class over the course of three school years.

AT 1118 min Ruth Beckermann Filmproduktion World Sales: Autlook Filmsales International Press: Mirjam WiekenkamR Festival bookings: AUSTRIAN FILMS Screenings Feb 16 12:30 Akademie der Künste WP Feb 17 22:00 Zoo Palast 2 Feb 18 12:30 Colosseum 1 Feb 19 13:00 Cubix 7 Feb 19 13:00 Cubix 8 Feb 25 13:30 International Market Screening Feb 17 09:15 CinemaxX 2 Fab 18 10:00 (online)

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BY ALEXANDER HORWATH A personal essay about the United States, viewed through the life and work of a movie actor. Henry Fonda and the roles he played merge into a dazzling and conflicted figure.

A very private man who thought he had "no good answers to anything" becomes the unlikely motor of a parallel history. His voice, recorded during his last interview in 1981, and his onscreen avatars guide us through America's past and present - on a road trip from the village of Fonda, NY, across the Midwest to the Pacific; from 1651 to the 1980s and the presidency of another movie actor. lt takes many places and times and characters to imagine an invisible republic - the United States of Fonda.

AT, DE l 184 min Mischief Films International Press: Gloria Zerbinati Festival bookings: AUSTRIAN FILMS Screenings Feb 19 19:30 Delphi Filmpalast WP Feb 21 16:30 Cubix 7 Feb 23 10:00 Kino Arsenal 1

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BY ANJA SALOMONOWITZ SLEEPING WITH A TIGER is a hybrid film about the Austrian painter Maria Lassnig. A film about her struggle in the male dominated art world and the quest to find her own personal artistic way of expression in which she brings her inner pain on canvas. And of course a film about her great artistic success.

AT, DE l 107 min coop99 International Press: Wolf Consultants Festival bookings: AUSTRIAN FILMS Screenings Feb 17 18:00 Delphi Filmpalast WP Feb 18 15:30 Colosseum 1 Feb 21 18:00 Delphi Filmpalast Feb 25 16:30 Kino Arsenal 1

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BY KlARA TASKOWSKA

BY DAVID SCHALKO

CZ, SK, AT coproduced by Mischief Films Worfd Safes: Sguare Ey_es

AT Superfilm Worfd Safes: ORF Enter,2.rise

Feb 18 16:30 International WP

Feb 20 16:00 CinemaxX 3

BY EVA PEDROZA, FANNY SORGO AT, DE World Safes: six12.ackfifm Feb 17 18:00 Cubix 5 WP

SCREENINGS

BY ANTONIN SVOBODA coop99 World Safes: Minerva Pictures Feb 17 13:00 Cinemobile Feb 19 11 :00 Virtual Cinema 2

BY ELISABETH SCHARANG wega film World Safes: Picture Tree International Feb 19 12:00 Virtual Cinema 4 Feb 20 09:00 Virtual Cinema 3

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BY DANIEL HOESL & JULIA NIEMANN Ulrich Seidl Film World Safes: MAGNIFY Feb 16 10:20 CinemaxX 2