16-18 May 2025

A weekend with a view

Look closely at what is happening.
Ilse Aichinger

Lee

Elisabeth “Lee” Miller had been working as a US photo model and fashion photographer, before, starting in 1942, she documented the war in Europe as a photo reporter for different outlets, including for Vogue. Miller witnessed the liberation of Paris and Alsace firsthand. In April 1945, she was among the first to document the Nazi crimes […]

Checker Tobi und die Reise zu den fliegenden Flüssen 

Tobi (Tobias Krell) finds a mysterious treasure chest, but only one person has the right key: Marina, circumnavigator and Tobi’s best friend from kindergarten. But where is she? Tobi’s new adventure begins when he starts looking for her. On his journey, he reaches the world’s biggest cave in Vietnam, he braves the stormy waves of […]

Der automobile Mensch 

In his gripping, at times ironic documentary, urban planner and filmmaker Reinhard Seiß pleads for a fundamental transport revolution. According to him, that is key if we are to tackle the climate crisis, and reduce the consumption of land and resources. This film depicts the world of transportation dominated by motorised vehicles in all its […]

Of Caravan and the Dogs

How can you cover your own government’s war if the word “war” is forbidden in public? This film follows Russian journalists of Novaya Gazeta, Radio Echo of Moscow, and Rain TV during their fight for press freedom. Since the start of the war, 130 media organisations have been banned in Russia; and since the beginning of the war in […]

How to Build a Truth Engine

The film by Austrian filmmaker Friedrich Moser explores the dangers of disinformation and propaganda, the need for a new type of journalism, and the pressing challenge for democratic societies to establish common ground—both online and offline. Moser captured 15 scientists and people from the realm of media on camera. “Just like in his whistleblower portrait […]

No Other Land

“Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta on the West Bank, has been fighting the mass expulsion of his community by Israel’s occupation since childhood. He documents the slow-motion eradication of the villages in his home region where soldiers deployed by the Israeli government are gradually demolishing houses and driving out their residents. […]

“Free Leonard Peltier”. 

On January 20th 2025, Joe Biden’s last day in office, POTUS released him from prison into house arrest—after almost 50 years of detention. Leonard Peltier, now 80 years old, is a member of the Lakota and Anishinaabe, as well as one of the most famous activists of the American Indian Movement. In 1977, on the grounds […]