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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!

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 I
Krakow FF 2026, PL 

awards

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

pictures

 

QUEERFILMNACHT

APRIL 2026

LOVE ME TENDER 

ein Film von Anna Cazenave Cambet
FR 2025, 133 min, OmU, Cannes Un Certain Regard 2026, mit: Vicky Krieps

MI 8.4., 20.40 KIZ ROYAL KINO
MO 20.4., 20.00 VOTIVKINO Wien
MO 27.4. 20.30 LEOKINO 

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NEWS

Ab 8. Mai im KINO: 
 

DIE KUNSTKOMPLIZEN 

Ein Film von Ebba Sinzinger 

Premieren und Sonderveranstaltungen
 in Anwesenheit von Ebba Sinzinger und PRINZpod 

Mi 6.5., 20.00 Leokino, Innsbruck 
Fr 8.5., 20.00 Metro Kinokulturhaus 
Mo 11.5., 20.00 Metro Kinokulturhaus 
Mi 13.5. 18.00 Kino im Kesselhaus 
Fr 15.5., 20.00 Admiralkino (mit Ebba Sinzinger) 
Di 2.6., 18.00 KIZ Royalkino in Koop. mit Kultum 

ab 8. Mai in folgenden Kinos: 
Wien: Metro Kinokulturhaus
Admiralkino (ab 15.5.) und Actors Studio (ab 15.5.)
Linz: Moviemento (ab 15.5.)
Graz: KIZ Royal Kino 
Innsbruck: Leokino
Villach: Filmstudio (8.+9.5., 13.+14.5.) 

Krems: Kino im Kesselhaus (13., 14., 15.5.) 
weitere Kinos folgen

 

JETZT im KINO:
 

MIRELLA 

Ein Film von Oliver Bruck 

Linz: Moviemento 
Innsbruck: Leokino 
Graz: KIZ Royalkino 

weitere Kinos folgen 

 

RENATE 

Ein Film von Martin Nguyen 

 10.5., 11.30 Cinema Paradiso St. Pölten 

5. Mai CINEMA PARADISO BADEN 
In Anweseheit von Renate Welsh und Martin Nguyen

ORT OHNE ERINNERUNG. KAISERSTEINBRUCH, die verschwundene Geschichte

Ein Film von Reinhard Tötschinger 

9., 10. + 12.5. KINO EBENSEE 
In Koop. mit dem Zeitgeschichte Museum Ebensee

22.5. KAISERSTEINBRUCH, Feuerwehrhaus 

 

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Eine Vielzahl ausgewählter Filme findet Ihr auf  

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ALARM jetzt STREAMEN

Kino Vod Club, Watch AUT
 

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FESTIVALS

SIRI HUSTVEDT Dance Around the Self

A film by Sabine Lidl 

April,  Epos Arts Film Festival, IL 

8 - 17 May, Millenium Doc Against Gravity, PL 

NOMINATED FOR THE GERMAN FILM AWARDS 2026 

in the Categories: Best Documentary
Best Editing

 

ELEMENTS OF(F) BALANCE

A film by Othmar Schmiderer 

8 - 17 May Millenium Doc Against Gravity, PL
Green Competition 

DIE KUNSTKOMPLIZEN

A film by Ebba Sinzinger 

1 May Crossing Europe FF, Linz 

LOIS WEINBERGER - Ruderal Society

A film by Markus Heltschl

10 - 19 April Bolzano Film Festival (int. Premiere) 

6 - 18 May DokFest München 

PORTRAIT OF NOWNESS

A film y Juri Rechinsky & Mario Hainzl

21st April Zagreb Dox (Int. Premiere) 

WHERE YOU MEET US SOON IN PERSON

28 April - 3 May Crossing Europe Film Festival 

6 - 10 May DokFest München 

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