2023-08-24 16:59:24
This year, for the 61st time, the Viennale will attract film fans from the city – and probably beyond – to Vienna. The 2023 edition is scheduled for October 19th to 31st, and director Eva Sangiorgi traditionally gave a first summer outlook on Thursday. And this year, too, the focus is on an animal subject – even if not on a big cat, but a play with light and embryo.
Another return to the familiar from pre-pandemic times is the Viennale headquarters in the Kunsthalle. Discussion rounds, specialist events and music events are now scheduled here once more. For example, the Romanian Berlinale winner Radu Jude has been invited to a panel discussion with several film critics. In general, the film critics, who are under attack, are given a helping hand with a “Young Critics’ Circle”, in the framework of which four young representatives can receive further training within the framework of the festival.
“It seems completely unimaginable to me in this heat, but it’ll start in two months,” said Sangiorgi in the evening, surprised in view of the approaching festival, which this year will not least take a look at South America: “We have different routes in this year’s festival, But then their paths cross once more and once more.”
The special “Cinematography” section, for example, is dedicated to Chilean film from the past five decades under the title “Resistance, Memory, Reinvention”, with 25 films in the catalogue. A somewhat more limited period of time is covered with the cinematography section “Keine Angst”, which is dedicated to Austrian cinema of the 1980s and, in cooperation with the film archive, has a total of 15 programs available, five of which are running as part of the Viennale.
However, they are working together with the film museum on the “retrospective”, which this time pays homage to the Chilean director Raúl Ruiz – “the most famous of the unknown filmmakers”, Sangiorgi quoted the self-definition of the director who died in 2011. The creator of over 100 films will be honored with 40 works, each of which stands for specific phases in the life of the filmmaker and can also be seen in the Film Museum following the Viennale until January 10, 2024.
In 2023, the “Monograph” is dedicated to the two filmmakers Nicolas Klotz and Elisabeth Perceval, whose oeuvre can be experienced in nine programmes. And in the 6th issue of the “Textur” section, a publication is dedicated to the Argentine filmmaker Lisandro Alonso, which not least draws attention to his six feature films to date – from “La Libertad” (2001) to “Eureka”, which celebrated its world premiere this year in Cannes. For this purpose, contributions have been made by curators, people from the field of criticism or film professionals such as Miguel Gomes and Viggo Mortensen.
Traditionally, the first “regular” works were also announced as part of the summer presentation, which this year are intended to attract the cinematic community to five Viennese cinema cathedrals – and this includes numerous treasures that recently celebrated their premiere at the major festivals. These include the Austrian co-production “Animal” by Sofia Exarchou, Wim Wender’s Kiefer homage “Anselm – The Noise of Time” or his “Perfect Days”, Philippe Garrel’s “Le Grand Chariot” and last but not least Marco Bellocchio’s “Rapito”.
And Austrian film-making is also well represented this year, for example “Adentro mío estoy Bailando” by Leandro Koch and Paloma Schachmann, Martha Mechow’s “Die anschtliche Verkehrsfahrerin”, Sudabeh Mortezai’s drama “Europa” or Jessica Hausner’s dystopian “Club Zero”. And Timm Kröger’s Austrian co-production “The Theory of Everything”, which will soon have its world premiere in Venice, can also be seen at the Viennale.
Detailed information regarding the program will then be announced at the official press conference on October 10th. Four days later, on October 14th, advance sales will start.
(S E R V I C E – www.viennale.at)
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