The Wonder Way
The Wonder Way is an exploration in search of extraordinary territories, terrestrial or celestial paradises, intriguing and uncharted. A journey out of time, seeking encounters with those who imagine other worlds within this world. From Randlett King Lawrence’s phantasmagoria to Charles Ross’s astral sculpture Star Axis, through Jugnet+Clairet’s enigmatic maps, Noah Purifoy’s Desert Museum, Jean Wisniewski’s Garden of Eden or Didier Queloz’s first exoplanet, The Wonder Way takes us to the most striking universes and draws a new cartography of the world in a great breath of freedom and magic.
"considers the creative process as a place of resistance, a tangible and very real counter-space to our present world" - Visions du Reel, Special Jury Award in the National Competition
Behind Closed Doors
In 1968, Brazil’s military government passed a law that ushered in the most violent period of the dictatorship. The meeting was recorded, but remained secret for decades. The documentary combines these audio tracks with propaganda films of the time. The documentary combines the audio tracks of a Brazil’s military government pivotal meeting during the dictatorship with propaganda films of the time.
"A chilling glimpse into the fragility of democracy,...The banality of evil is on full display as the film remixes history, dissecting propaganda in order to indict a criminal dictatorship with its own rhetoric. In an era witnessing the resurgence of authoritarianism, it offers a cautionary tale beyond Brazil’s local politics in 1968." - True/False
Terra in Vista
What's left when you have the courage, or the imprudence, to give up a life all mapped out, punctuated by the passing of time? Sisko, Armelle, Cécilia and Gibbo use precarious work in intensive agriculture as a way of surviving in the ruins of capitalism, and anxiety as the driving force behind their search for a new way of being in the world, a land in sight.
"Contemplative doc with striking cinematography follows a tightknit community who move seasonally from farm to farm across Europe" - Guardian
Living Together
There was once a place in Vienna where people could study and learn how to live together. Under the auspices of the City of Vienna, modules were developed in an EU-funded joint project to make it easier for refugees – but also newcomers in general – to find their way around the city. Everyday life was to be self-determined with the help of refugees in the capacity of experts. The EU funding has meanwhile run out. What remains is a documentary by Thomas Fürhapter, who, with Judith Benedikt and Klemens Koscher with their steady camera, plows through the diverse course program, listens to the people working out possible solutions, and above all, looks at faces with real devotion.
"With a simple but powerful cinematic language - one setting, multiple classrooms, immersive portraits, and a participatory approach to discussing difficult and uncomfortable topics - the film proposes an inclusive method to enable cultural inclusion." - DOK.fest Munich, *Winner* Best German Doc.
Archive of the Future
At the Natural History Museum in Vienna, everything that is found on earth, in outer space, and that humans can get their hands on, is collected, archived, and studied in the name of evolutionary research. Archive of the Future captures the aesthetic appeal of the natural-history collection and its working process, illuminating the mammoth project of knowledge preservation and production hidden behind the building’s imperial façade.
"Joerg Burger’s meticulous and mesmerising study of the Vienna Museum of Natural History is itself a work of natural history" - Guardian