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BLUM – Masters of their own destiny

BA 2024, 75 min, Jasmila Žbanic

After the Second World War, in devastated, rural Bosnia and Herzegovina, a country of illiterate people, the entrepreneur Emerik Blum created a large and successful global company, "Energoinvest," that operated worldwide with a billion dollars in profit. Taking advantage of the specific position of Yugoslavia that was between East and West, socialism and capitalism, the company operated on a worldwide unique business model based on the workers’ participation in management and profit. Blum turned a small engineering atelier into a great company success by operating under the self-management model. The self-management model is a system in which all employees in a factory or enterprise decide on everything concerning their company. This most democratic model worked excellently in this case but is largely unknown today. Through interviews with contemporaries who knew Blum, his workers, as well as archive interviews with himself, the film paints a portrait of a genius man and a story about a special time. The way Blum thought and worked today seems like science fiction!

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Festivals

Director´s Fortnight FF 2025, US | Zagreb Dox 2025, HR I Bosnian FF 2025, US I Jewish Film Festival Berlin Brandenburg 2025, DE I Beldocs 2025 RS I Sarajevo FF 2025 I FicUba 2025, AR 

Awards

Bosnian entry for the 98th ACADEMY AWARDS - "Best International Film"

QUEERFILMNACHT

MÄRZ 2026

ENZO 

ein Film von Laurent Cantet; Regie: Robin Campillo

FR/BE/IT 2025, 102 Minuten, OmdU

Mo 9.3., 20.00, Votivkino Wien
Mi, 11.3., 20.40, KIZ Royal Kino, Graz
D0 19.3., 20.10, Volkskino Klagenfurt

Do 26.3., 20.30 Cinematograph Innsbruck

 

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NEWS

JETZT IM KINO:

RENATE 

Ein Film von Martin Nguyen 

Wien: 
Topkino OmenglUT 

09.,16., 22., 29.4.2026 Lungauer Kulturverein 

Special Screenings mit RENATE WELSH und MARTIN NGUYEN: 
9.4., 18.00 ADMIRALKINO  TICKETS 
Moderation Anna Katharina Laggner (Autorin) 

21.4., 20.00 KINO FREISTADT

5.5. CINEMA PARADISO BADEN 
 

ORT OHNE ERINNERUNG. KAISERSTEINBRUCH, die verschwundene Geschichte

Ein Film von Reinhard Tötschinger 

Fr 27.3., Sa 28.3., jeweils 18.00 KULTUR ON, Bruck/Leitha

28.3., 20.15 KINO FREISTADT Tickets 
In Anwesenheit des Regisseurs Reinhard Tötschinger 

21.4. MARKTGEMEINDE WAGNA, Lagerbaracke Wagna 

 

Ab 10. APRIL im KINO:
 

MIRELLA 

Ein Film von Oliver Bruck 

Wien-Premiere: 

Fr 10. April, 19.00 Metro Kinokultuhaus, Wien 
Special Guests: Amina Ricciardi - Dempsey, Gus Dempsey 
In Anwesenheit des Regisseurs Oliver Bruck und Team 
 

Graz-Premiere: 
Do 9. April, 18.00 KIZ Royal Kino, Graz
In Anwesenheit des Regisseurs Oliver Bruck 
 

Wels-Premiere: 
Sa 11. April, 18.15 
In Anwesenheit des Regisseurs Oliver Bruck 

Ab 10. April in folgenden Kinos: 

Wien: Metro Kinokulturhaus 
Linz: Moviemento 
Wels: Programmkino Wels
Innsbruck: Leokino 
Graz: KIZ Royalkino 

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ALARM jetzt STREAMEN

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FESTIVALS

SIRI HUSTVEDT Dance Around the Self

INT. PREMIERE @ CPH:DOX 

Highlights Section
12 March, 20.00 
18 March, 12.15, 21.15
20 March, 21.00
 

EPOS ARTS FILM FESTIVAL, IL
4th April 

ONE WORLD FF

DESERT PASSAGES

A film by  Kevin Brennan, Laurence Durkin

17.3. 20.30 Worldpremiere with the directors  

19.3. 17.00 

 

DIAGONALE 2026

PORTRAIT OF NOWNESS  
Ein Film von Juri Rechinsky und Mario Hainzl

19.3. 21.00 Annenhof 6 Weltpremiere 
20.3. 14.00 KIZ 1

DIE KUNSTKOMPLIZEN 
Ein Film von Ebba Sinzinger 


20.3. 16.30 Annenhof 5 OmeU Weltpremiere
22.3. 11.00 KIZ

WHERE YOU MEET US SOON IN PERSON

18 - 22 March Diagonale 

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