Rainer Egger

300 years of a remarkable musical instrument. Crafted by the Italian master Bussotti (Cecchi) in 1681, the red violin has traveled through Austria,...

A youth discovers Paul McCartney died and the public had never been informed of this fact.

Franz is by far the smallest in the class, has blond ringlets and gets a high-pitched squeaky voice when he gets upset. Luckily, two best friends...

Sophie "inherits" her uncle's preserved whale and finds out that whoever sleeps in the whale's belly with her will be granted one wish, causing chaos...

The sun blazes down from the sky with destructive power; exposing oneself to its light means death. People have transposed everyday existence to the...

Another one of those stories we hear almost every day: refugees are picked up on Austria's border after a dramatic chase. And then nothing more is...

For many years the old Waller worked as a railwayman. After Waller is informed that "his" track will be closed down and that he will be retired, he...

It is Mr Karpf's birthday and he waits by the phone, but nobody calls. He concludes that there must therefore be something wrong with the phone.

When Johanna's blind grandmother Ruth tells her the secret about their Jewish past, the “sleeping dogs” of the family history awake.

In the late 1960s, when the young Jewish businessman’s son Victor Dessauer fails to secure just punishment for the Nazi concentration camp...

The young actress Käthe is not 18 when she conquered Berlin's theater stages. Privately she finds her luck alongside the famous artist Max...

In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious French man who visits the...

Two apartments are joined together, the demolition of a wall transfers two small flats into a big one. Seven young people move in and share the...

Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is...

The reality the conscientious objector Roman is confrontend with at an old-age home is something he has previously been spared: suffering, frailty,...

The film is set in the near future, in a world of perfect capitalism. Society is sustained by a class of top achievers; meanwhile, so-called minimum...

The story of a Polish mother who is exploited as a cheap worker in Austria, and of an Austrian realtor, who fits the typical cliché of a...

Delving deep into the soul of one of Austria’s most infamous real-life convicts, Jack is a fascinating, unprejudiced look at the path to...

The psychological inner life of a child that has experienced sexual violence. This film essay symbolically tells of violence and the dynamics of...

This film is based on the actual events referred to as the "Mühlviertler Hasenjagd" (Hare-hunt in the Mühlviertel) which occurred in...

Ever had an idea for a film? Ever actually visualised this film in your mind? Or even sketched out scenes and camera angles? Plenty of film buffs...

Antonia is stuck in her everyday life. She oversleeps, procrastinates and searches the internet for a happy life. Spontaneously, she decides to give...

Felix, a young projectionist, daydreams himself out of the loneliness of his projection booth and into a fantastic universe in which the characters...