LIFE ON THE HORN by Mo Harawe in Locarno 2020

We are very happy to announce that LIFE ON THE HORN by
Mo Harawe will celebrate its world premiere at the International Film Festival Locarno!

For the entire duration of Locarno 2020 – For the Future of Films (August 5-15), the international Pardi di domani competition will be available online. 
Detailed information on www.locarnofestival.ch

LIFE ON THE HORN by Mo Harawe in Locarno 2020

Diagonale Awards 2020 for Constanze Ruhm and Friederike Berat

After the cancellation of the festival due to Covid-19 this year's  jury decisions of Diagonale 2020 have been announced. Cordially congratulations to all winners ! Especially we celebrate together with Constanze Ruhm, receiving the Award for Innovative Cinema for Gli appunti di Anna Azzori, and with Friederike Berat, who has been awarded with Best Artistic Editing for Documentary for WE DID WHAT HAD TO BE DONE (co-dir: Ulrike Ertl).

all award-winners

Diagonale Awards 2020 for Constanze Ruhm and Friederike Berat

Spotlight auf sixpackfilm bei Kino-VoD-Club

Der Kino-VoD-Club, der online-Anbieter der österreichischen Programmkinos richtet ein Spotlight auf sixpackfilm mit einer  Auswahl an Filmen, die neu in deren Programm sind, darunter drei visuelle Meisterwerke von Peter Schreiner, Essays von Ella Raidel, Michael Palm oder Gerhard Friedl und eindrückliche Portraits von Institutionen, Orten und Menschen von Angela Summereder, Lukas Marxt, Cordula Thym & Katharina Lampert oder Joerg Burger.
Österreichisches Home-Kino vom Feinsten mit dem Sie gleichzeitig Ihr Kino in dieser "kinolosen Zeit" unterstützen!
Direkt in die vodclub.online Sammlung

Spotlight auf sixpackfilm bei Kino-VoD-Club

Oberhausen 2020 - online

Like other festivals also Oberhausen International Shortfilm Festival has to move it's recent edition into the internet due to the pandemia. Within this edition and in various sections a number of titles from sixpackfilm's catalogue have been included: Heavy Metal Detox by Josef Dabernig plays in the International Competition (IC3) as well as Pomp by Katrina Daschner (IC5), the last part of her series which can be seen as an entire program by itself within the festival: Katrina Daschner: An Eight Part Dream Novella.
Furthermore the german-austrian production The Institute by Alexander Glandien has been selected into the German Competition (GC3) - the complete festival program and streaming schedule can be found here

And finally sixpackfilm has been invited again to contribute with a showcase of recent productions from our catalogue within the Distributors screenings. (see details here)

Oberhausen 2020 - online

THIS MOVIE IS A GIFT by Anja Salomonowitz as "Film of the week" at dafilms.com

A personal devotion of film art and object art and vice versa: Anja Salomonowitz´s sensible portrait of well known Swiss artits Daniel Spoerri at work and talk, THIS MOVIE IS A GIFT is celebrated as FILM OF THE WEEK until may 10th at DAFILMS, probably world´s most advanced plattform for documentary and essay film.

straight to dafilms.com

THIS MOVIE IS A GIFT by Anja Salomonowitz as "Film of the week" at dafilms.com

Ann Arbor Filmfestival 2020 - Awards for Billy Roisz and Siegfried Fruhauf

There are still good news to spread !
Ann Arbor Filmfestival, which had to move to the net due to the pandemia, has given it's awards last weekend:

Who's Afraid of RGB by Billy Roisz received the Leon Speakers Award for Best Sound DesignTHORAX by Siegfried Fruhauf one of the Juror Awards ! Congratulations !
Find a list of all award winners here

Ann Arbor Filmfestival 2020 - Awards for Billy Roisz and Siegfried Fruhauf

Diagonale 2020 "Die Unvollendete" - online-Auswahl

Am 24. März hätte die Diagonale 2020 in Graz eröffnen sollen. Nach ihrer Absage aufgrund der Pandemie-Erläße stellt sie nun einen Teil ihres Programms auf flimmit.com online: Historische Themenschwerpunkte, aktuelle frische Kurzfilme und weitere Querschnitte aus dem diesjährigen Programm. Darunter eine Vielzahl von Filmen aus dem sixpackfilm-Katalog.
Vom 24.März – 24.April 2020 hier

Diagonale 2020 "Die Unvollendete" - online-Auswahl

Diagonale 2020 has been cancelled

In accordance with the decree published on March 11th on the website of the Federal Ministry, the Diagonale’20 is forced to cancel this year’s Festival of Austrian Film. Find more details on their website

Kinostart: ELFIE SEMOTAN - PHOTOGRAPHER von Joerg Burger, ab 4.März 2020

Am 4. März 202 startet Joerg Burgers Portraitfilm: ELFIE SEMOTAN - PHOTOGRAPHER in den österreichischen Kinos mit etlichen Sonderveranstaltungen in Anwesenheit von Joerg Burger und seiner Protagonistin. Details zum Kinostart in Wien finden sich auf der Seite des Filmcasinos.
Aktuelle Ausstellungsbeteiligungen von Elfie Semotan im MAK/Wien, Galerie am Stein/Wien, Museum der Moderne/Salzburg.

Kinostart: ELFIE SEMOTAN - PHOTOGRAPHER von Joerg Burger, ab 4.März 2020

New film by Constanze Ruhm celebrates world premiere at Berlinale Forum

We are happy to announce the world premiere of the latest film by Austrian director Constanze Ruhm Gli appunti di Anna Azzori / Uno specchio che viaggia nel tempo at the Forum of the upcoming Berlinale 2020 !

New film by Constanze Ruhm celebrates world premiere at Berlinale Forum