We are thrilled to announce that ‘Welcome Home Baby’ by Andreas Prochaska will celebrate its world premiere in the Panorama section of the 75th Berlinale in February 2025!

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Maria Hofstätter sets off "To New Shores" in Upper Austria alongside Miriam Fussenegger, Leonard Stirsky Hädler, Karl Fischer and Regina Fritsch, among others. On Tuesday, December 17th at 8.15 pm, the 25th film in the ORF-Landkrimi series celebrates its ORF1 premiere. On Monday, December 16th at 8.15 pm, "To New Shores" is already available for streaming on ORF ON!

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Exciting, funny, charming and typically Austrian: Sascha Bigler's new crime comedy series "The Curious Cases of Gerti B." is now available on DVD just in time for Christmas from Friday, December 13th! Click here to pre-order from Hoanzl. Susi Stach's investigations are also still available to stream on ORF ON!

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Exciting, funny, charming and typically Austrian: the first three episodes of Sascha Bigler's new crime comedy series The Curious Cases of Gerti B. are now available to watch online first on ORF ON! From Friday 11 October at 3.00 pm, episodes 4 to 6 can also be streamed. On ORF1 Series Monday, the TV premiere will follow in double episodes on 7, 14 and 21 October at 8.15 and 9.05 p.m.

Stream now on ORF ON!

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Last week we celebrated the Austrian premiere of ‘The Glory of Life’ at the Urania cinema! In the presence of co-director Georg Maas, screenwriter Michael Gutmann, actress Daniela Golpashin and producers Tommy Pridnig & Helge Sasse as well as large parts of cast & crew, we had a great time celebrating! Since Friday, ‘The Glory of Life’ can be seen in cinemas across Austria!

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Filming for our latest cinema production ‘Welcome Home, Baby’ began in Vienna on the 10th of May! Shooting will continue there and in Lower Austria in the Schottwien area until the end of June 2024. The film is being directed by Andreas Prochaska ("The Dark Valley"), who is also responsible for the screenplay together with Daniela Baumgärtl and Constantin Lieb.

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At the German Film Awards ceremony on May 3rd in Berlin, Adrian Goiginger's The Fox was awarded a Silver Lola in the category Best Film. Simon Morzé also received the Lola for Best Leading Actor for his role as the soldier Franz Streitberger.

We would like to congratulate Simon and are honored to receive this award!

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The Glory of Life broke the 200,000 viewer mark! This currently makes the film the most successful German arthouse film of the year and the third most successful German film of the year!

In Austria, The Glory of Life will be released in cinemas on the 7th of June to coincide with the 100th anniversary of Franz Kafka's death!

The first three episodes of the series Die Fälle der Gerti B. will be shown as part of the supporting programme at the Diagonale 2024 in Graz!

The screening will take place on Sunday, April 7th at 09.00 pm at the Rechbauerkino.

We are thrilled that we have been nominated for the Deutscher Filmpreis with "The Fox" by Adrian Goiginger and "The Glory of Life" by Georg Maas and Judith Kaufmann in a total of 6 categories, including "Best Film"!

We congratulate all nominees and look forward to the award ceremony on the 3rd of May!

Michael Ostrowski and Helmut Köpping have won the Norddeutscher Rundfunk Directing Award for "Der Onkel/THE HAWK" at this year's FILMKUNSTFEST Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Schwerin!

Congratulations to the award winners!

We are honoured that "The Fox" by Adrian Goiginger and "Der Onkel/THE HAWK" by Michael Ostrowski and Helmut Köpping have been nominated several times at the Österreichischer Filmpreis.

We would like to congratulate all the nominees and would also like to thank our team and sponsors!

The new Upper Austrian Landkrimi To New Shores celebrated a very "stormy" premiere yesterday on the beautiful Braunberg in the Mühlviertel with more than 500 people in attendance!

Unfortunately, the performance could not be completed due to the bad weather conditions.

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The Shooting for the film about the special friendship between a motorcycle courier in World War II and a fox cub is completed. "The Fox" (director: Adrian Goiginger) is is expected to be released in cinemas next year.

Art, criminals, golden meatloaf sandwiches and a white leprechaun: in Marvin Krens' (director & script) first comedy, haulage dispatcher Freddy experiences an unforgettably insane night. Shooting will take place in and around Vienna on behalf of ORF and BR.

A brand-new case for Moritz Eisner and Bibi Fellner! "Tatort: Krank" premiers on the 25th of October (20:15) on ORF2.

The Hawk has landed - or in other words: the filming of the dark black comedy Der Onkel/The Hawk with Michael Ostrowski, Anke Engelke, Hilde Dalik and Simon Schwarz is completed!

The cinema release is planned for next year!

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The film drama is celebrating its world premiere.

UNTITLED directed by Michael Glawogger and Monika Willi wins this year's "Best Pelicam Feature" at the Pelicam Filmfestival.

Mai 28th is the official shooting start date of "Herzjagen" - written and directed by Elisabeth Scharang, director of photography Jörg Widmer. Martina Gedeck, Rainer Wöss, Anton Noori and Ruth Brauer-Kvam represent the main characters.

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We are happy to announce the release of "Der Tote im See".

Congratulations to a succeeded premiere and cinema release of "Erik & Erika"!

In this year's prize giving ceremony of the Austrian Film Award Glawogger's and Willi's UNITITLED won in four categories: Best documentary, Best music, Best sound design, Best cut.

Glawoggers and Willi's UNTITLED wins the Vienna Film Award 2017 for the best documentary.