Thirteen years ago, Kurdwin Ayub was first honored with a special at the Viennale. At the time, the filmmaker—born in Iraq and raised in Vienna—was just 22 years old and already making waves with her performative video works. Her pop-cultural exploration of gender clichés, authenticity, and self-staging was as radical as it was …

Maksim Avdeev, Monument, 2025, 15 min
Philipp Gufler, The Beginning of Identification, and its End, 2024, 19 min
Ian Kaler, The Growing Edge, 2025, 17 min (Weltpremiere)  

All day long in the foyer:
Daniela Zahlner, Sexy 8, 2012, 3 min

Curated by Stefanie Reisinger and Dietmar Schwärzler
Talk with Ian Kaler after the screening

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