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.
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\nThis year\u2019s 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.
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\nIn 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 Am\u00e9lie\u2019s charm, Delicatessen\u2019s absurdity, and Wes Anderson\u2019s aesthetics. Chris Raiber\u2019s debut is an impressively sure-footed, bittersweet, and playful celebration of love and the belief that it even can speed up seasons.
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\nWoodland 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.
\nIn 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.
\nWith a series of top-class documentaries, filmmakers Christian Kr\u00f6nes and Florian Weigensamer are committed to fight against forgetting and not remembering. Their latest film A Boy\u2019s 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.
\nIn \u201cWho Is Afraid of Hitler\u2019s Town? A House and the Past within Us\u201d director G\u00fcnter 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. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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