APRIL 2026
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
VIENNA CALLING
AT/DE 2023, 85 min, Philipp Jedicke
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.
festivals
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
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Ab 8. Mai im KINO:
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Ein Film von Ebba Sinzinger
Premieren und Sonderveranstaltungen
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Mi 6.5., 20.00 Leokino, Innsbruck
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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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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