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Alma & Oskar
Austria / 2023 / Length: 88
Discover the magic of Austrian cinema at the 9th edition of the Austrian Film Week in Israel, brought to you by the Austrian Cultural Forum.
This year’s selection explores timeless themes of love, friendship, and solidarity, but also the haunting specters of destructive power, repression, and mortality. while joining remarkable characters as they tell their stories.
In First Snow of Summer by director Chris Raiber, starring the award-winning duo Alexander Prenn and Verena Altenberger, great love attempts to conquer all in a quirky fairytale-like drama with blends of Amélie’s charm, Delicatessen’s absurdity, and Wes Anderson’s aesthetics. Chris Raiber’s debut is an impressively sure-footed, bittersweet, and playful celebration of love and the belief that it even can speed up seasons.
Woodland by Elisabeth Scharang follows the story of a city dweller, in existential crisis seeking solace in the countryside. In calm, atmospherically dense scenes between treetops, lonely lakes and foggy fields the movie delves into the themes of escape, self-discovery, scars both old and new, repression and confidence and the enduring bonds of friendship and solidarity.
In Alma and Oskar, director Dieter Berner unravels the captivating love affair between two Viennese art icons, composer Alma Mahler and painter Oskar Kokoschka. What begins as an ardent love affair between the two increasingly spirals into an abysmal drama of destructive power presenting these two complex figures against the backdrop of the early 20th-century Viennese art world.
With a series of top-class documentaries, filmmakers Christian Krönes and Florian Weigensamer are committed to fight against forgetting and not remembering. Their latest film A Boy’s Life gives voice to Holocaust survivor Daniel Chanoch, illuminating the fateful twists and turns of a unique life and survival story, growing up in a time when childhood had no space.
In “Who Is Afraid of Hitler’s Town? A House and the Past within Us” director Günter Schwaiger tackles the complexities of repressed history. The film paints a nuanced portrait of a city still grappling with from the aftertaste of a monstrous dictator.
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First Snow of Summer
Austria / 2023 / Length: 90
Direcor: Chris Raiber
Language: German, Hebrew and English subtitles
A romantic fairy tale for adults. Nine-year-old Alexander grows up with his loving grandmother, after his father decided to live in the tunnel systems of the Vienna underground, following the death of Alexander’s mother. On his tenth birthday, Alexander promises his grandmother never to fall in love in order not to share his father’s fate. As a young adult, he starts to work in a small lost-and-found office for the Vienna underground to be close to his father. Here he meets the beautiful and vivacious Caro and his promise is harder to keep. A charming and humorous film reminiscent of...Select date:
A Boy's Life
Austria / 2023 / Length: 96
Direcor: Christian Krönes, Florian Weigensamer
Language: German and English; Hebrew and English subtitles
A Boy's Life tells the unimaginable and cruel story of a child in the midst of the Nazi regime: Daniel Chanoch was only nine years old when his childhood came to an end in the summer 1941. Now, at the age of 91, he recounts in a touching and open manner his incredible odyssey from the Jewish ghetto in Lithuania through six concentration camps to Mandatory Palestine.Select date:
Woodland
Austria / 2023 / Length: 100
Direcor: Elisabeth Scharang
Language: German; Hebrew and English subtitles
Marian leaves the city behind and retreats to the old house she inherited from her grandmother. The nearest village is ten kilometers away, there’s no electricity and no hot water. Sometimes submitting to a catastrophe is the only way to begin afresh.Select date:
Who is Afraid of Hitler’s Town? A House and the Past Within Us
Austria / 2023 / Length: 99
Direcor: Günter Schwaiger
Language: German, Hebrew and English subtitles
Why has no film ever been made in Austria about Hitler's place of birth? Director Günter Schwaiger asked himself this very question when he began working on this film project in 2018, shortly before the house was expropriated by the Republic of Austria. For five years, the director accompanied the exciting developments surrounding the subsequent use of Hitler's birthplace with a very personal view. From questioning the cliché of the "Nazi city" to surprising and outrageous discoveries, his path ultimately leads to his own family history.Select date:
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