On Thursday, March 27, the Diagonale opens in Graz. sixpackfilm is extremely happy to be represented again in 2025 with a broad variety of great new and historical works in the main and supporting programs of the festival of Austrian film.
We'll be celebrating the world premieres of Sugarland, the feature film debut by Isabella Brunäcker, in competition for the Grand Diagonal Prize - a road movie that sends two seekers on a journey together (photo), and of the following short films: Everyone Deserves a Slice of the Pie by Sasha Pirker, Diamond & Narcissus - الماس و نرگس by Barbara Wolfram, lll by Josephine Ahnelt, The Prologue by Marzieh Emadi & Sina Saada, The Many Ways to Avert One's Eyes by Eszter Katalin and White Ribbons by Michael Heindl.
Some of them have already won awards at international festivals and can now be seen in Austria for the first time: 2551.03 - The End by Norbert Pfaffenbichler, Milena Fina on the Phone by Albert Sackl, Becoming Outline by Miriam Bajtala, Out of Sight/ Bürglkopf by Lisa Polster, È A QUESTO PUNTO CHE NASCE IL BISOGNO DI FARE STORIA by Constanze Ruhm, The Life of Sean DeLear by Markus Zizenbacher, The Big Day/ Schützenfest by Lennart Hüper & Lennart Miketta, and What the Night speaks - a Story by veteran avantgarde filmmaker Hans Scheugl.
And we are pleased no less that new films by Helin Çelik, Josef Dabernig, Karin Fisslthaler, Michaela Grill & Karl Lemieux, Friedl vom Gröller, Alexander Horwath, Johann Lurf & Christina Jauernik, Christiana Perschon, Ursula Pürrer & Ashley Hans Scheirl, Thomas Renoldner, Lukas Valenta Rinner and Billy Roisz will now also be shown on the big screen in Graz following their (inter)national festival appearances.
Ivette Löcker, whose most recent work Our Time Will Come is also celebrating its Austrian premiere in the Diagonale Competition following its premiere at the Berlinale Forum, has a Position dedicated to her this year: this retrospective comprises three feature-length and three short works by the award-winning documentary filmmaker.
As the winner of the Diagonale Innovative Film 2024 award, Simona Obholzer not only designed this year's festival trailer The Lawn is the Most Pleasant Sight in the Scenery, but also an exhibition at Kunsthaus Graz, Pleasing to the eye, soft on the feet, which opens on Friday, March 28 and runs until April 21.
Katharina Copony is greatly missed, in Graz this year as well. Diagonale will be showing At the Barracks (2019), a cinematic reflection on her own family history, and her last published short film Tu Harimau (That's the Tiger) from 2021 in remembrance of the filmmaker who sadly passed last fall.
