Austrian cinema is perhaps best known internationally for the uncompromising work of directors like Michael Haneke, but its darker, more transgressive streak runs deeper, right back to Gerald Kargl's Angst, a relentlessly unsettling 1983 portrait of a killer. Before Sunrise, though American-directed, captures Vienna with a rare, unhurried warmth. See what Macca made of these and more below.
Rating: 0.5★
Peter Tscherkassky is one of the more singular figures working in European experimental cinema, and not especially easy to place if you came to film through mainstream channels. The Austrian filmmaker has spent the bulk of his career working with found footage and physical celluloid manipulation, building a body of
Rating: 4.0★
July 1995. The town of Srebrenica, in eastern Bosnia, became the site of the worst mass atrocity on European soil since the Second World War. Over the course of a few days, more than eight thousand Bosniak Muslim men and boys were systematically murdered by Bosnian Serb forces under the
Rating: 4.0★
Female genital mutilation is one of the most widely practised and least openly discussed human rights issues in the world. The World Health Organisation estimates that more than 200 million women and girls alive today have undergone some form of the procedure, with prevalence particularly high across parts of sub-
Rating: 1.5★
There are films that disturb you because something terrible happens on screen, and then there are films that disturb you because the director has decided that you, the person sitting in the dark, are the real subject of the exercise. Michael Haneke's Funny Games, made in Austria in
Genre Thriller
★★½ — Angst (1983)
Genre Drama
★ — Before Sunrise (1995)
Genre Drama
★★½ — Alive! (2009)
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