Vienna, the former music capital of Europe, has become increasingly relevant again. With the wry approach that is typical of this city, the young underground music scene there romanticizes the raw and rabid.
Hedonist and nihilist at the same time, the young Viennese artists embody the opposite of self-optimization. They are unadjusted, eccentric characters – and they are filling concert halls not only in Austria, but also in Germany and Switzerland. VIENNA CALLING starts with the aim of being a music documentary. But increasingly, the true protagonist emerges as the city of Vienna itself. Like a flâneur, the camera saunters by day and night through the lanes, bars and casual joints of Vienna, taking diversions, becoming lost only to find its way again.
The strolling rhythm is instigated by the music, performed by Viennese artists and their famous charm or "Schmäh". Part documentary, part staged, interwoven with musical performances, the project gradually reveals itself as a mosaic of eccentricity. VIENNA CALLING digs deep into the catacombs of Viennese culture far from the mainstream. With its many performances and semi-fictional scenes, VIENNA CALLING is not a music documentary in the classic sense of the word, but rather a docu-musical.
The film provides a stage for Viennese artists like the Turkish-Austrian duo EsRAP, who are first generation immigrants, non-binary rap artist Kerosin95, radical feminist authors Stefanie Sargnagel and Lydia Haider, songwriters Voodoo Ju?rgens and Der Nino aus Wien, and many more. VIENNA CALLING is a poetic approximation to the underground scene of an old European metropolis that experiences the current cultural changes and conflicts of our time. Viennese artists take the room they need for their art in a city that becomes increasingly gentrified. VIENNA CALLING is an homage to daring artists, it is about the hardships of creating art and art's need for space and independence.
Diagonal 2023, AT | DOK.fest München 2023, DE | Beyond Borders 2023, GR | Unerhört Festival Hamburg 2023, DE | Nancy IFF 2023, FR | Filmtage Osnabrück 2023, DE | Cologne Film Festival 2023, DE | Szemrevaló - Sehenswert 2023, HU | Das Filmfest - Festival des deutschsprachigen Films 2023, CZ
Im APRIL 2025
ein Film von Tzeli Hadjidimitriou
Griechenland 2024, 77 Minuten, griechische OF mit dt. UT
„Lesvia“ erzählt sie von 40 Jahren lesbischer Gemeinschaft, Liebe und Konflikten auf der Insel Lesbos.
Votivkino, Wien 14.4., 20.00
Volkskino Klagenfurt 22.4., 20:15
Leokino Innsbruck 28.4., 20.30
FIXE VORSTELLUNGEN am 28. April in allen CINEPLEXXEN (siehe unten)
PREMIEREN in Anwesenheit der Regisseurin:
Freitag 2. Mai, Kino im Kesselhaus Krems
Mittwoch 7. Mai, 19.30, Cinema Paradiso Baden
Freitag 9. Mai, Stadtkino Horn
JETZT IN FOLGENDEN KINOS:
WIEN: Village Cinema / Cineplexx Donauzentrum / Cineplexx Millenium City
Cineplexx Auhof / Cineplexx Wienerberg
NÖ: Cineplexx Westfield SCS Vösendorf / Cineplexx Wiener Neustadt / Cineplexx Amstetten
Grand Movie Neunkirchen
ab 2. Mai: Kino im Kesselhaus Krems
6. Mai, 13. Mai und 30. Mai: Kino Mank
ab 7. Mai: Cinema Paradiso Baden / Cinema Paradiso St. Pölten / Star Movie Tulln
7.+ 8. Mai: Kino Retz
ab 9. Mai: Stadtkino Horn
am 9. Mai: Kino Drosendorf
OÖ: Moviemento Linz / Cineplexx Linz / Kino Freistadt /Dieselkino Braunau / Kinola Lambach /
ab 7. Mai: Star Movie Peuerbach / Star Movie Regau / Star Movie Ried / Star Movie Steyr / Star Movie Wels
STMK: Cineplexx Graz / Cineplexx Leoben / Cineplexx Weiz / Dieselkino Gleisdorf / Dieselkino Lieboch / Star Movie Liezen (ab 7. Mai)
SLBG: Cineplexx Salzburg Airport / 20.+ 27. Mai: Stadtkino Hallein
TIROL: Cineplexx Wörgl / Leokino Innsbruck / Cineplexx Innsbruck
BGL: Cineplexx Mattersburg / Cineplexx Parndorf
KÄRNTEN: Cineplexx Villach / 23.+ 24. April: Volkskino Klagenfurt
VORARLBERG: Cineplexx Hohenems / Kino Bludenz
Ein Film von Juri Rechinsky
Wien: 27. April, Topkino, 13.00 Film + Diskussion mit Regisseur Juri Rechinsky
Erlebt echte Kinomomente bei euch im Ort!
Eine Vielzahl ausgewählter Filme findet Ihr auf
DREI Nominierungen für DEAR BEAUTIFUL BELOVED
- Bester Dokumentarfilm
- Beste Montage
-Beste Tongestaltung
Dokfilmwoche Hamburg
Fr 24. April 21.15
In Anwesenheit von Regisseur Juri Rechinsky und Editorin Andrea Wagner
BOSNIAN-HERZEGOVINIAN FF NEW YORK
26th April, 5. pm
JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL, BERLIN
7., 8. + 10. Mai
Dokfilmwoche Hamburg
27. April, 21.30
in Anwesenheit von Regisseur Dominik Zietlow