“Dropping films and burning palaces”: The Diagonale Festival of Austrian Film Claudia Siefen July 2009 Festival Reports 17-22 March 2009 While film festivals get questioned more and more about their purpose on the contemporary film market, the Diagonale seems quiet sure about their benefit: to get an idea of the Austrian ...
The Truth and the Pleasure: The 55th Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen Claudia Siefen July 2009 Festival Reports 30 April – 5 May 2009 If you should ever come to know a film critic who is crazy not only about the A-programme screened at the International Shortfilm Festival in Oberhausen but the location itsel...
“This is a small country, you know” The Diagonale Festival of Austrian Film Claudia Siefen May 2008 Festival Reports 1 - 6 April 2008 Love – Work – Cinema. This motto seemed to me something real and grounded and I was looking forward to discovering the richness and breadth of contemporary Austrian filmmaking as it was ...
