Category
page 1Austrian independent films

Before Sunrise
1995 film directed by Richard Linklater

The Piano Teacher
2001 film directed by Michael Haneke

The Counterfeiters
2007 film by Stefan Ruzowitzky

Caché
2005 film directed by Michael Haneke

Funny Games
1997 film by Michael Haneke

The Seventh Continent
1989 film by Michael Haneke

Benny's Video
1992 film directed by Michael Haneke

Goodnight Mommy
2014 film by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala

Corsage
2022 film directed by Marie Kreutzer

Little Joe
2019 film directed by Jessica Hausner

Happy End
2017 film directed by Michael Haneke

A Little Night Music
1977 film by Harold Prince

Center of my World
2016 film directed by Jakob M. Erwa

Import/Export
Import/Export is an Austrian drama film by the director Ulrich Seidl from 2007. It was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival and won the Grand Prix - Golden Apricot reward at the Yerevan International Film Festival. The film was shot in Vienna, Ukraine, Romania, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia from 2005 until May 2007 on 16mm film. Simultaneously, the film follows a nurse from Ukraine searching for a better life in the West and an unemployed security guard from Austria heading East for the same reason.

Revanche
2008 film by Götz Spielmann

Club Zero
2023 film directed by Jessica Hausner

The Devil's Bath
2024 film by Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz

Pianomania
Pianomania is a 2009 German-Austrian documentary film by directors Lilian Franck and Robert Cibis. The film presents Stefan Knüpfer, a virtuoso piano tuner from the piano company Steinway & Sons, in his work with pianists such as Lang Lang, Alfred Brendel and Pierre-Laurent Aimard.

Dog Days
2001 film by Ulrich Seidl

Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey into the Desert
2023 film directed by Margarethe von Trotta

Brothers of the Wind
2016 film by Gerardo Olivares

Angst
1983 Austrian film directed by Gerald Kargl

Rammbock
2010 film by Marvin Kren

Free Radicals
2003 film by Barbara Albert

Sisi & I
2023 film directed by Frauke Finsterwalder

Dead in 3 Days
2006 film by Andreas Prochaska

Masking Threshold
2021 film directed by Johannes Grenzfurthner

Hotel
2004 film

The Beast in the Jungle
2023 film directed by Patric Chiha

Traceroute
2016 film by Johannes Grenzfurthner

Lovely Rita
2001 film by Jessica Hausner

L’Animale
'''''L'Animale''''' is a 2018 Austrian coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Katharina Mückstein, starring . The film made its world premiere at the 68th Berlin Film Festival in the Panorama section on 18 February 2018. It was released in theaters in Austria by Polyfilm Verleih on 16 March 2018. The film received six nominations at the 2019 Austrian Film Award, including Best Film and Best Actress.

Esther Forever
1986 film by Amos Gitai
Paradise trilogy
2012-2013 Three films directed by Ulrich Seidl

Sparta
2022 film directed by Ulrich Seidl

Talea
2013 film directed by Katharina Mückstein