“We’re pretty romantic about it all.”
Since 2016, Sebastian Höglinger and Peter Schernhuber have headed Diagonale—Festival of Austrian Film.
Alumni in Focus – Adrineh Simonian
Opera singer and porn producer—two professions you virtually never encounter in one and the same résumé. But
Adrineh Simonian is an exception.
A Story Told in Pictures
Kitty Kino, one of the first women to graduate from the directing programme of Film Academy Vienna, looks back on a long and multifaceted career.
Stories Told in Sound
In films, we often hear sounds that we perceive barely or not at all in real life.
Austria, Your Heart Is Vienna
An archival project devotes to the origins and development of Film Academy Vienna.
Roll Out the Red Carpet for Film Academy Vienna! 65 Years of Film Training in Austria
To this day, Film Academy Vienna is Austria’s only university-level institution for the training of film professionals.
For the Love of Cinema
Sabine Derflinger is the recipient of numerous honours such as the Grimme Award. Film Academy student Jannis Lenz, on the other hand, can likewiselook back on several awards.
That “We-Feeling”
mdw graduate Lixi Frank about the fascination of film production, teamwork, the production environment, and cinema in general.
A Common Dream of Film
Together with his colleagues from coop99, Film Academy graduate Antonin Svoboda is among Austria’s most successful producers and directors.
It’s never just about the Monster
With the horror comedy "Attack of the Lederhosenzombies" and the psychothriller "Mein Fleisch und Blut", Dominik Hartl and Michael Ramsauer are breaking new cinematic ground in Austria.
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