Film Festival
Diagonale: big screen for special women
The Diagonale festival in Graz, which will be showing 163 films from March 27 to April 1, is presenting a wealth of female filmmaking. Prominent guests are also expected to attend the numerous premieres of special Austrian productions. The festival will open with the debut of director Florian Pochlatko, "How to be Normal and the Oddness of the Other World".
This year's Graz Diagonale celebrates strong female film positions under the direction of Dominik Kamalzadeh and Claudia Slanar. The opening film "How to be Normal" by Florian Pochlatko follows the story of a young mentally ill woman played by up-and-coming star Luisa-Céline Gaffron. Pia Hierzegger makes her feature film debut with "Altweibersommer" about the friendship between three very different women. Evi Romen's "Happyland" about a musician who returns home, Alexandra Makarova's "Perla" about a Czech dissident and Marie Luise Lehner's debut "Wenn du Angst hast, nimmst du dein Herz in den Mund und lächelst" about a girl with a deaf mother are also intense portraits of women. Inge Maux will also be honored with the Grand Diagonale Acting Award.
The festival management is looking forward to a year "with a particularly large number of premieres and international appeal": "Critical assessment, subversive comedy and a road movie on course for change: these are the poles with which we want to describe this year's program."
A total of 163 films will be shown at the Diagonale from March 27, 91 of which will be Austrian or world premieres. 17 feature films will be competing for the festival title. Guests expected in Graz include Elke Winkens, Cornelius Obonya, Simon Schwarz, Carmen Diego, Daniel Hoesl, Karl-Markus Gauß, Ursula Strauss, Josef Hader, Ulrich Seidl, Valie Export, Verena Altenberger, Marie Kreutzer, Lilian Klebow and Thomas Stipsits.
Real film fans will also be interested in the film history specials "Aus dem Giftschrank" and "Österreich - Eine Satire", as well as a retrospective on Greek director Athina Rachel Tsangari.
The entire program is already available online, tickets go on sale on 21 March (diagonale.at).
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