Projekt Ballhausplatz 2023
How a group of young men managed to take over the government and lead it to the brink of democracy. What drove the “Praetorians” and why almost the entire country was at their feet. Why the European public marveled and admired this.

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#Female Pleasure 2018    star_border 7.7
A plea for the liberation of female sexuality in the 21st century. The film questions millennial patriarchal structures, as well as todays omnipresent porn culture. It accompanies five extraordinary women around the globe, reveals universal contexts and shows the successful fight of these courageous women for a self-determined female sexuality and an equal, passionate relationship between the sexes.

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Hotel Rock'n'Roll 2016    star_border 6.4
Mao inherits her uncle Waberl’s – a former icon of Sex, Drugs and Rock’n’Roll – hotel on the countryside. With the help of her friends Max (a wannabe entertainer with brilliant concepts but lacking structure) and Jerry (a skilled Guitarrero but less skilled chef) they try to put together a hotel band to save Rock’n’Roll as well as their bankrupt hotel.

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How to Cook Your Life 2007    star_border 5.6
A Zen priest in San Francisco and cookbook author use Zen Buddhism and cooking to relate to everyday life.

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Friendship 2006
After the death of the legendary trade unionist and red veteran Peppi Schober, his bereaved family members, a steadfast father and his ideology-free son, finally clear the table and settle accounts: with fifty years of political, contemporary and family history, with ideologies, illusions - and above all with each other.

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Toward Jerusalem 1991    star_border 6
In this documentary road movie, Austrian filmmaker Ruth Beckermann records the diverse views and activities of Israelis and Arabs as she travels along the route from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

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The Paper Bridge 1987    star_border 7.3
Beckermann's parents met in Vienna after the Holocaust. Tracing the migratory paths of her family before World War II, Beckerman returns to the European Jewish communities which inspired her childhood stories.

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Return to Vienna 1983    star_border 6.6
Franz West (1909-85) remembers his youth in Vienna: the variety of the Jewish population of the so called Matzah-Island, his commitment to the worker’s movement of the Red Vienna and the rise of Austro-fascism and National Socialism. West’s masterly narration combined with impressing archive footage illustrate and elucidate the complex Austrian history between WW1 and WW2.

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