THE BEAST IN THE JUNGLE

By: Patric Chiha
Year: 2023
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Country of Origin: Austria, France, Belgium
Genre: Drama
Duration: 103 min

Freely adapted from the novella by Henry James, The Beast in the Jungle tells the vertiginous story of a man and woman who, for twenty-five years, frequent a huge nightclub in anticipation of a mysterious event. From 1979 to 2004, from disco to techno, it is a love story and the tale of an obsession. When “it” finally comes to pass, it takes on a more tragic form than ever expected.

Team

Director: Patric Chiha
Script: Patric Chiha, Axelle Ropert und Jihane Chouaib
Protagonists: Anaïs Demoustier, Tom Mercier, Béatrice Dalle, Martin Vischer, Sophie Demeyer
Producer: Charlotte Vincent, Katia Khazak, Cassandre Warnauts, Jean-Yves Roubin, Ebba Sinzinger, Vincent Lucasssen
DoP: Céline Bozon
Editor : Karina Ressler, Julien Lacheray
Sound: Atanas Tcholakov, Mikael Barre
Music: Dino Spiluttini, Yelli Yelli, Florent Charissoux
© Aurora Film / Frakas Productions / WILDart FILM

Awards

Berlinale 2023 – Panorama, Diagonale 2023 – Eröffnungsfilm, Best Costume

SIGMUND FREUD, JEW WITHOUT GOD

By: David Teboul
Year: 2020
IMDb 
Country of Origin: Austria, France
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 97 min

In turn-of-the-century Vienna, a visionary and pioneering Sigmund Freud develops psychoanalysis until he is forced into exile in London in 1938. An intimate portrait – also told from the perspective of his daughter Anna – based on Freud’s correspondences and texts, and a questioning of “home” and “Jewish identity.” Previously unpublished archive images present Freud not only as a brilliant thinker, but also as a private person in all his different facets.

Team

Director: David Teboul
Protagonists: Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud
Voices original version: Isabelle Hupert (Anna Freud), Mathieu Amalric (Sigmund Freud), Catherine Deneuve (Marie Bonaparte), Jeanne Balibar, Sandrine Kiberlain, Micha Lescot, Denis Podalydès
Producer: Richard Copans, Anne Cohen-Solal, Ebba Sinzinger, Vincent Lucassen
DoP: Martin Roux und Richard Copans
Editor : Caroline Detournay
Sound: Béatrice Wick, Stéphane Thiébaut, Georg Tomandl
© Arte France / Les Films d’Ici / WILDart FILM

WOOD

By: Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan, Michaela Kirst, Ebba Sinzinger
Year: 2020
IMDb 
Country of Origin: Austria, Germany, Romania
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 96 min

Illegal logging is a global business worth billions. Alexander von Bismarck, descendant of the Iron Chancellor and head of the Environmental Investigation Agency in Washington D.C., successfully pursues the machinations of the timber mafia worldwide – with dyed hair, a concealed camera and sound recording equipment. His primary concern isn’t to expose a scandalous situation, but rather to promote a change in the consciousness of politics and civil society and to bring about a new code of conduct for the global economy and consumers. WOOD is an environmental thriller that draws its tension from sad everyday reality.

Team

Director: Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan, Michaela Kirst, Ebba Sinzinger
Protagonists: Alexander von Bismarck, Gabriel Păun, Agent Green
Producer: Ebba Sinzinger, Vincent Lucassen, Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan, Adrian Sitaru, Thomas Tielsch
DoP: Attila Boa, Jakub Bejnarowicz, Jörg Burger, Lukas Gnaiger, Jerzy Palacz
Editor : Roland Stöttinger, Andrea Wagner
Sound: Hjalti Bager-Jonathansson, Claus Benischke, Nora Czamler, Andreas Pils, Peter Rösner
© WILDart FILM / Filmtank / 4ProofFilm

Awards

Visioni del Mondo Milan Best Film, Zurich Film Festival Special Mention

THE PROPHET AND THE SPACE ALIENS

By: Yoav Shamir
Year: 2020
IMDb 
Country of Origin: Austria, Israel
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 86 min

“The Prophet and The Space Aliens” follows Rael, who after an alleged encounter with extraterrestrials – that appointed him the “last prophet” – became the founder and leader of the world’s biggest UFO religion.

Team

Director: Yoav Shamir
Protagonists: Rael (Claude Vorilion)
Producer: Tanya Aizikovich, Steven Markovitz, Yoav Shamir, Ebba Sinzinger, Vincent Lucasssen
DoP: Tanya Aizikovich
Editor : Roland Stöttinger, Neta Dvorkis
Graphics : Jörg Vogeltanz
Sound: Hjalti Bager-Jonathansson
Music : Manfred Plessl
© Yoav Shamir Films / Big World Cinema / WILDart FILM

Awards

CPH:Dox 2020 Selection, Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Fantasia Selection, DocAviv, DocEdge

GLASSBOY

By: Samuele Rossi
Year: 2019
IMDb 
Country of Origin: Austria, Italy, Switzerland
Genre: Children Drama
Duration: 90 min

Pino is a child suffering from haemophilia and is animated by an unbridled desire for freedom and boundless courage: he decides to start his adventure in the world and to show everyone that he can live his life like a normal kid.

Team

Director: Samuele Rossi
Cast: Andrea Arru, Rosa Barbolini, Mia Pomelari, Gabriel Mannozzi de Cristofaro, Stefano Trappuzano
Producer: Emanuele Nespeca, Ebba Sinzinger, Elena Pedrazolli, Vincent Lucassen
DoP: Ariel Salati
Editor : Marco Guelfi
Sound: Gianfranco Tortora
Composition: Giuseppe Cassaro
© Solaria Film, WILDart FILM, Peacock Film

Awards

ECFA Award Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
Best Film FEATURE EXPERIENCE” am Giffoni Film Festival 2020
Best Script 50th Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival / Teen Competition

REFUGEE LULLABY

By: Ronit Kertsner
Year: 2019
IMDb 
Country of Origin: Austria, Israel
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 73 min

Fall 2015. Israeli director Ronit Kertsner sees a YouTube-video that goes viral: Hans Breuer, Austria’s last wandering shepherd, drives an Arab family to the Hungarian border. He sings Yiddish lullabies for the children to lighten their mood. Ronit starts filming Hans and over the period of three years creates the portrait of an unusual character, who overcomes his own inherited trauma in a highly political and human way. Refugee Lullaby is a film about an unusual way of living, moving encounters, and devoted solidarity.

Team

Director: Ronit Kertsner
Protagonist: Hans Breuer
Producer: Ebba Sinzinger, Vincent Lucassen, Ronit Kertsner
DoP: Shalom Rufeisen, Jerzy Palacz
Editor : Ronit Kertsner
Sound: Johannes Bültermann, David Almeida-Ribeiro, Hjalti Bager-Jonathansson

BOOMERANG

By: Kurdwin Ayub
Year: 2018
IMDb 
Country of Origin: Austria
Genre: Short drama
Duration: 21 min

A Mercedes is parked in front of a house, seems to be waiting, but the motor is not on. A girl walks by, approaches the door to the house. The driver stretches out of the window, he wants to go up with her. “Go away, Dad, you are embarrassing,” says the girl — “I love you,” answers the father. But Dana is not swayed. She is on the way to her mother´s housewarming party. Her mother has just moved into her own apartment after the divorce.

Team

Director: Kurdwin Ayub
Cast: Hasan Ali Mete, Law Wallner, Atlana Puntigam, Arthur Berghammer, Mercedes Echerer, Inge Maux, Angelika Niedetzky, Tom Feichtinger
Producer: Ebba Sinzinger, Vincent Lucassen
DoP: Caroline Bobek
Editor : Roland Stöttinger
Sound: Nora Czamler
© WILDart FILM

Awards

Best Shortfilm Award – Filmfestival Max Ophüls, Saarbrücken

BROTHERS OF THE NIGHT

By: Patric Chiha
Year: 2016
IMDb 
Country of Origin: Austria
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 88 min

Soft boys by day, kings by night. A group of young Bulgarian Roma men come to Vienna looking for freedom and a quick buck by selling their bodies. What comforts them is the feeling of being together. But the nights are long and unpredictable.

Team

Director: Patric Chiha
Protagonist: Stefan, Yonko, Asen, Nikolay, Vassili, Alexander
Producer: Ebba Sinzinger, Vincent Lucassen
DoP: Klemens Hufnagl
Editor : Patric Chiha
Sound: Atanas Tcholakov
© WILDart FILM

Awards

66. Filmfestspiele Berlin / Panorama
Filmfestival Duisburg 3Sat Dokumentarfilmpreis
RIDM Montreal (Best Cinematography)
LGTB Festival Paris (Best Actor)

MICHAEL H. profession:director

By: Yves Montmayeur
Year: 2013
IMDb 
Country of Origin: Austria, France
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 92 min

Over the last 25 years, Michael Haneke has established himself as the most influential filmmaker of his generation and as one of the most important directors in cinema history. From his early work to the multi award-winning AMOUR, he has created a unique universe, revealing like no other the darkest corners of society, our existential fears and emotional outbursts. Through interviews with Haneke and his actors – Isabelle Huppert, Juliette Binoche, Emmanuelle Riva and many more – as well as previously unseen behind-the-scenes footage, this documentary uncovers the secrets of his working practice and deptics this rare artist, often seen as a cold calculating creator, in a revealing, insightful and humane new light.

Team

Director: Yves Montmayeur
Protagonist: Michael Haneke, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Josef Bierbichler, Emily Cox, Susanne Lothar, Béatrice Dalle, Isabelle Huppert, Juliette Binoche
Producer: Ebba Sinzinger, Vincent Lucassen, Serge Guez
DoP: Yves Montmayeur, Atilla Boa
Editor : Oliver Neumann
Sound: Hjalti Bager-Jonathansson, Stefan Fiedler
© WILDart FILM, Crescendo Films, Les Films du Losange

Festivals

Tribeca Film Festival /Moscow IFF / Toronto IFF / New York IFF / Rio de Janeiro IFF / Sundance / Dubai IFF / Hong Kong IFF / Tokyo IFF / Melbourne / Havana / Sanfic / Istanbul IFF / BFI London / Odessa Film Festival / Trondheim / Oslo / Warsaw FF / Torino / Rome IFF

THE FORGOTTEN SPACE

By: Allan Sekula and Noel Burch
Year: 2010
IMDb 
Country of Origin: Austria, Netherlands
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 112 min

Details the catastrophic effects globalization has wrought on the ship, truck and train industries. We visit displaced farmers and villagers in Holland and Belgium, underpaid truck drivers in Los Angeles, seafarers aboard mega-ships shuttling between Asia and Europe, and factory workers in China, whose low wages are the fragile key to the whole puzzle. At a moment when collective bargaining rights are under attack in the United States, and China continues to bow to foreign pressures to prevent such rights from being granted at all, this film asks: Is capitalism the Trojan horse that turns on its inventors?

Team

Director: Allan Sekula, Noel Burch
Schauspieler*innen: Nina Hagen (voice german version)
Produzent*in: Frank van Reemst, Joost Verheij, Ebba Sinzinger, Vincent Lucassen
DoP: Attila Boa, Wolfgang Thaler
Editor : Menno Boerema
Sound: Eckerhard Braun, Joe Knauer
Composition: Ricardi Tesi, Louis Andriessen
© DocEye, WILDart FILM

Awards

Special Orrizonti Award, Venice Film Festival
Viennale Official Selection
Jihlava Best World Documentary

ALIVE!

By: Artan Minarolli
Year: 2009
IMDb 
Country of Origin: Austria, France, Albania
Genre: Drama
Duration: 90 min

There is cramming and getting laid in Tirana. But all of a sudden the student Koli is caught up by an archaic world which claims that he is part of it. When his disabled father dies a blood feud is being revived and he is held liable for a murder committed by this grandfather 60 years earlier. At first he endeavours to bring his opponents to their senses. As this proves futile, he becomes increasingly paranoid and, unwillingly, starts to resemble his opponents. When he decides to arm himself and train, the notion of a modern present dissolves into melancholy. Koli is catapulted into an Albanian reality that is devoid of all romantic folklore. In a country where until recently Hoxherian despotism and a grisly mountaineers‘ mentality were ruling alongside, there is neither a right to a „modern“ every day life nor the possibility of escaping to such, while the insistence on tradition is leading directly into catastrophe as well. Thus, Artan Minarolli’s heroes shipwreck on their own great expectations.

Team

Director: Artan Minarolli
Cast: Nik Xhelilaj, Xhevdet Ferri, Bruno Shilaku, Niada Saliasi, Besart Kallaku
Producer: Ebba Sinzinger, Vincent Lucassen, Marie-Balducchi, Artan Minarolli
DoP: Jaques Bouquin
Editor: Oliver Neumann
Sound: Hjalti Bager-Jonathansson
Composer: Baptiste Bouquin

DOMAINE

By: Patric Chiha
Year: 2009
IMDb 
Country of Origin: Austria, France
Genre: Drama
Duration: 110min

Pierre, a teenager, spends all his time with Nadia, a flamboyant woman in her thirties. They are friends, almost lovers. The anarchy that exists in Nadia’s life fascinates this young man who is on the threshold of adulthood. But Nadia is a wounded woman who is addicted to alcohol. Gradually she indulges herself. Pierre thinks at first that he can help her and hold her back…

Team

Director: Patric Chiha
Cast: Béatice Dalle, Isaïe Sultan
Producer: Charlotte Vincent, Ebba Sinzinger, Vincent Lucassen
DoP: Pascal Poucet
Editor: Karina Ressler
Sound: Walter Fiklocki
Composer: Emi Hanak, Gloria Hallé Pedemonte

PIANOMANIA

By: Robert Cibis, Lilian Franck
Year: 2009
IMDb 
Country of Origin: Austria, German
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 90 min

PIANOMANIA is a film about love, perfection and a little bit of madness. „The tone isn’t breathing. “ – complains pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, distraught. This is a typical sentence in Steinway & Sons’ chief technician and Master Tuner Stefan Knüpfer’s normal work day. Each piano has its own personality, each piece demands its own timbre, and every interpretation has a particular temperament. PIANOMANIA takes the viewer along on a humorous journey into the secret world of sounds, and accompanies Stefan Knüpfer at his unusual job with world famous pianists like Lang Lang, Alfred Brendel, Rudolf Buchbinder and Pierre-Laurent Aimand, among others. To find the right instrument with the necessary qualities, compatible with the vision of the virtuoso, to tune it to perfection and finally to get it on the stage, needs nerves of steel, boundless passion, and the extraordinary competence in translating words into sounds. This unusual film by Lilian Franck and Robert Cibis tells – with love and humor – of moments of absolute love of attention to detail and perfection. PIANOMANIA observes, from unique angles, the suspenseful search for the perfect tone.

Team

Director: Robert Cibis and Lilian Franck
Protagonist: Stefan Knüpfer, Pierre Laurent-Aimard
Producer: Ebba Sinzinger, Vincent Lucassen, Robert Cibis
DoP: Robert Cibis, Jerzy Palacz
Editor : Michelle Barbin
Sound: Sabine Panossian, Hjalti Bager-Jonathansson, Benedikt David, Ina Nikolow
Composer Abspann: Matthias Petsche
© WILDart FILM, Oval Filmemacher

Awards

Locarno Critics Week
Golden Gate Award San Francisco
Nomination Best Documentary European Film Awards
Best Sound Design, German Film Awards
Best Editing, Diagonale