Wilde Maus (2017)

comedy, drama, crime

When Georg loses his job, he conceals the fact from his younger wife Johanna, who wants a child with him. Instead, he embarks upon a campaign of revenge against his former boss and begins to renovate a roller-coaster with an old school friend.

Arthur und Claire (2017)

comedy, drama

Arthur travels to Amsterdam for the last journey in his life, but there he meets Claire and together, they start a trip through the night.

★ (2017)

experimental

This film, compiling shots of clear night-time skies from throughout film history in chronological order, reveals that what humans may regard as an absolute image is actually quite unstable.

7th New Austrian Film Festival

Wilde Maus, an opening film of this year's New Austrian Film Festival, is a directorial debut of Josef Hader, a prominent Austrian comedic actor. He has a bit role in Die Migrantigen as well, an irreverent comedic take on the European immigrant problem. Free Lunch Society, a documentary research into a complicated matter of unconditional profit follows a similar, slightly anarchic path. And ★ looks up to the sky, in the most straightforward and unconventional manner possible.