Austrian Art Award 2024
Filmmaker Karin Berger is awarded the Austrian Art Award for Film by the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport, in recognition of her work to date.
From the jury's statement: Karin Berger is a pioneer in a present in which the disappearance of the generation that experienced the Nazi era is a painful fact. She shapes feminist art practice, is a talented interviewer and recognized teacher. Her work shows that history is never closed and that the cinematic recording of the unnoticed shapes the future.
We can only agree with this – and in this context also point to Wankostättn, her most recent work to date. Our warmest congratulations!
Outstanding Artist Awards 2024: Selma Doborac, Mo Harawe, Olena Newkryta!
This year's Outstanding Artist Awards have been announced. It is an exceptional pleasure for us to highlight the film and culture professionals among the award winners, some of whom have been associated with sixpackfilm for many years.
Selma Doborac receives the Outstanding Artist Award for her “precise and intellectually challenging work, in which she examines the rhetoric of words, images and ideologies (...) Her documentary essay films, such as It was a day like any other in spring or summer (2012) and Those Shocking Shaking Days (2016), reflect her intense engagement with the medium of film and the themes of war, memory and historiography. (...) Her previous masterpiece, De Facto (2023), is a scenic tour de force about perpetrators and perpetrator language.”
(From the jury statement for the Outstanding Artist Award 2024 in the Documentary Essay category)
“Austria has been waiting for a filmmaker like Mo Harawe, who creates complex and wise films despite his young age. He is an important voice for the future of Austrian film and a role model for others not to let any system get them down,” reads the jury's citation for Mo Harawe, who was awarded in the feature film category and recently celebrated the premiere of his feature film debut The Village Next to Paradise at the renowned film festival in Cannes. “His poetic film language allows us to perceive the invisible and paints a picture of Somalia that is far removed from clichés and stories of radicalization. His films use minimal dialog that hints at political causes without providing simple answers.”
Mo Harawe's last two short works can be found in the sixpackfilm distribution catalog: Life on the Horn (2020) and Will My Parents Come To See Me (2022).
The artist and filmmaker Olena Newkryta, one of the country's most interesting young voices, was also honored in the media art category. “Newkryta's works address the unequal relationships between knowledge, power and re/production in our technological world. She sheds light on the material, emotional and psychological effects of technological patterns and logics,” says the jury statement. Most recently, her work Patterns Against Workers (2023) was awarded the prize for best medium-length film at the Duisburg Documentary Film Week.
We are delighted for and with Selma, Mo and Olena and congratulate all the prizewinners from the bottom of our hearts!
Revolving Rounds by Johann Lurf & Christina Jauernik | World premiere at the Locarno Film Festival 2024
Johann Lurf & Christina Jauernik have been invited to the Pardi di Domani: Concorso Corti d'Autore section of the Locarno Film Festival with their first collerboration, the short film Revolving Rounds. Congratulations to them!
sixpackfilm @ FID Marseille 2024
We are happy and proud to announce two premieres at the renowned FIDMarseille, including the world premiere of Constanze Ruhm’s recent film È A QUESTO PUNTO CHE NASCE IL BISOGNO DI FARE STORIA and the international premiere of Saying Not Said by Christina Stuhlberger.
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2024
Jan Soldat's most recent found-footage work with images from the German TV-crime series "Ein Fall für Zwei" (A case for two) entitled Beautiful Dead Women Die Schöne Tote will celebrate its world premiere at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2024, and Siegfried Fruhauf will also be represented once again with the international premiere of his latest abstract short film Mare Imbrium.
Films by Josef Dabernig, Stefania Smolkina and Michael Heindl selected into the competition of Oberhausen Shortfilm Festival
With Josef Dabernig's Lacrimosa, Michael Heindl's Surface Seance and the debut film Avec la 4e Division Marocaine de Montagne by Stefania Smolkina, sixpackfilm is represented with three films in this year's International Competition of the Oberhausen Short Film Festival (May 1-6, 2024). In addition, we are presenting current works by Friedl vom Gröller, Lukas Marxt and Gabriele Mathes, among others, in a distributor program. ––>
Diagonale 2024 - a shower of prizes!
We are overwhelmed and enormously happy about our award winners of this year's Diagonale and congratulate them from the bottom of our hearts:
Martha Mechow for Losing Faith - Grand Diagonale Award for Feature Film
(by the way, to be shown at the Metro KinoKulturhaus in Vienna from April 13, 2024!)
Helin Çelik for ANQA - Grand Diagonale Award Documentary AND Award for Best Editing Documentary to Sara Fattahi
Sallar Othman for YARÊ - Award for Best Short Fiction Film
Bernhard Hetzenauer for Those Next to Us - Award for Best Short Documentary Film and KODAK AWARD
Simona Obholzer for DIN 18035 - Diagonale Award for Innovative Cinema
Nora Einwaller for ASCHE (D: Elena Wolff) - Award for Best Visual Design Category Feature Film
And of course, congratulations to all the other Diagonale 2024 award winners!
Tako Tsubo awarded at Tricky Women/ Tricky Realities 2024
Eva Pedroza and Fanny Sorgo receive the "Grand Post Award" for their surrealist animation Tako Tsubo at this year's Tricky Women/ Tricky Realities festival. Here's the Jury Statement: "Freedom and joy in filmmaking translate into dark explorations of loving and living. For its poetic, condensed and existentialist humor, we give the Grand Post award to Tako Tsubo." - Heartfelt congrats!
Málaga 2024 : Jury Special Mention to THOSE NEXT TO US by Bernhard Hetzenauer
We congratulate Bernhard Hetzenauer on receiving a Special Jury Mention in the documentary film section of this year's Málaga Film Festival for THOSE NEXT TO US. The film tells the dramatic story of an escape from the perspective of a survivor juxtaposed with static images of locations.
Berlinale 2024: TAKO TSUBO premieres within the Short Film Competition, Maria Lassnig films in the Forum, Critics' Week with two films by Natalia Kašik.
We are very happy! Berlinale Shorts 2024 has selected the surreal animation TAKO TSUBO for the competition program. The debut film by young filmmakers Eva Pedroza and Fanny Sorgo will celebrate its world premiere there.
On the occasion of the world premiere of the new film by Anja Salmonowitz, the Berlinale Forum will be showing an extensive program of short films by Maria Lassnig. In addition, the two short works by Natalia Kasik PISTOLERAS and PFERDEMÄDCHEN have also been included in the Critics' Week program.
