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Austrian Film Week 2024

Discover the magic of Austrian cinema at the 9th edition of the Austrian Film Week in Israel, brought to you by the Austrian Cultural Forum.

This year’s selection explores timeless themes of love, friendship, and solidarity, but also the haunting specters of destructive power, repression, and mortality. while joining remarkable characters as they tell their stories.

Woodland

Dir.: Elisabeth Scharang
| 100 minutes

Marian leaves the city behind and retreats to the old house she inherited from her grandmother. The nearest village is ten kilometers away, there’s no electricity and no hot water. Sometimes submitting to a catastrophe is the only way to begin afresh.

Screening in the presence of director Chris Raiber

First Snow of Summer

Dir.: Chris Raiber
| 90 minutes

On his tenth birthday, Alexander promises his grandmother never to fall in love in order not to share his father’s fate. When  he meets Caro, his promise is harder to keep. A charming and humorous romantic fairy tale for adults.

Alma & Oskar

Dir.: Dieter Berner
| 88 minutes

Vienna, 1912. The recently widowed Alma Mahler, Grande Dame of the Viennese Society seduces the young painter Oskar Kokoschka. What started as a sexual adventure quickly turns into an intensive affaire that brings them to the brink of self-destruction.

A Boy’s Life

Dir.: Christian Krönes, Florian Weigensamer
| 96 minutes

Daniel Chanoch was deported to Auschwitz at only 9-years-old. Now, at the age of 91, he recounts in a touching and open manner his incredible odyssey from the Jewish ghetto in Lithuania through six concentration camps to Mandatory Palestine.