The Berlinale Trio: Salomonowitz, Beckermann, Karpovych

This Movie Is a Gift is a movie about the artist Daniel Spoerri. Actually it's a movie about a thought by Daniel Spoerri: a movie almost without Daniel Spoerri, actually he is mostly re-enacted by a child - not to say anything less than that everything always goes on in life somehow, even if you die in between.

Shot over summer and winter seasons on elektrychkas, typical Soviet commuter trains that travel between the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and small provincial towns, the film invites us to share a ride with working class, mostly marginalized passengers and vendors.

At centre of this documentary are the two poets Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan, who come to know each other in post-war Vienna.

An artistic confrontation with the global phenomenon of trafficking in women. A film about false promises, exploitation and disappointment.

28 well-known filmmakers living and working in Austria were invited by WIENER MOZARTJAHR 2006 (VIENNA MOZART YEAR 2006), to produce associative miniatures on Mozart. The only requirement: They had to be one-minute art films...

Three elderly ladies are sitting at the table with cakes and coffee. But when it comes to questions about the past, a seemingly ordinary family meeting turns to a strategy of telling stories and being silent...

Rain on a window pane, a fire truck, a tomcat with innumerable offspring: it is an intentionally unintentional gaze that allows for chance encounters, stories, and memories that leads Ruth Beckermann across Europe and the Mediterranean...

A documentary about the wondrous passion of Carmen Martinek, who takes movie theaters as her lovers...

American Passages reveals some of the cultural practices in society which finally resulted in the election of Donald Trump. At the same time the film is an impressive road-traveling collage of the United States in the era of the Obama administration...