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- FOREIGNERS OUT! SCHLINGENSIEFS CONTAINER is a thrilling, insightful, funny chronicle and reflection of one of he biggest public pranks and acts of art terrorism ever committed. Austria 2000: Right after the FPÖ under Jörg Haider had become part of the government, the first time an extreme right wing party became state officials after WW2, infamous German shock director Christoph Schlingensief showed a very unique form of protest. Realising public xenophobia and the new hate politics in the most drastic ways possible, he installed a public concentration camp right in the middle of Vienna's touristic heart, right beside the picturesque opera where hundreds of tourists and locals pass by daily. And it was no concentration camp you had ever feared to return from the old times, but one that cynically reflected our new multimedia culture. Satirising reality TV shows, "Big Brother" especially, a dozen asylum seekers were surveilled by a multitude of cameras, could be fed and watched by passer-by's and two were thrown out of the country through web-voting. The way fascism looks in the 21st century: Bright. Sensational. Interactive. Funny - and frightening. Austria freaked out. Thousands of screaming people gathered. Attacks with knifes, beatings, acid occurred. Political intrigues. Headlines all over Europe. 800,000 worldwide joined via internet. An incredibly heated week, capturing the European right-wing drift in real time. Democracy the hard way.
- A dysfunctional group of wannabe survivalists hunkers in a bunker to prepare for doomsday. But will their narcissism, delusions and jealousies end up killing them off before their long-awaited dream of a global cataclysm?
- Edmund 'Mundl' Sackbauer is struggling, after celebrating his 80th birthday, through his marriage and life in Vienna.
- The mourning period MOHARRAM presents the religious highlight for SHIITE Muslims. This film follows four different groups of people in today's TEHERAN. Young religious men come closer to each other during this major event, ending in the DAY OF ASHURA - known for its traditional flagellation ritual. People are careful but surprisingly open to talk about politics.
- All sorts of trouble arise within a Viennese middle-class family, when they are visited by a bunch of Russian relatives.
- It's 30 years later and the Sackbauers have estranged themselves from everyone; only mother "Toni" tries to re-establish the old happy family.
- HipHop Alpstyle: Young farmer Markus falls in love with student Romi and although they couldn't be more different they find a common passion between ballet and break dance.
- A former master butcher in an idyllic rural setting fears that the cherished traditions and future he had envisioned for his son Franzl are in jeopardy when Charlotte, a vegetarian from the big city, bursts into the young man's life.
- The Last of Gassen East Tyrol, September 1965: It had been raining for weeks. The clear Klammbach was a brown swollen torrent that had taken its little bridge down into the valley with a crash. Chrysanth Ladstätter, the 20 year old young farmer on the Walderhof, with a rope around his hips crosses the foaming water partly reaching up to his breast. Also tied to the rope is the midwife of Kals whom he has to bring as fast as possible to Maria, the Stemminger farmer's wife. The week-long thunderstorm has cut off the mountain farmer village Gassen which lies 1600 meters high on a terrace of Defereggen valley. Whole mountainsides have slid down into the valley together with their footpaths. When Chrysanth and the midwife finally arrive, wet and spattered with mud, the birth is already under way, one month early due to the incessant excitement and fear. Chrysanth, who until then hasn't seen a woman naked, has to assist the midwife because all the others are at the creek, trying to dam it up. When a healthy boy is born - his name will be Sigmund - Chrysanth immediately sets forth to his parent's home in Gassen, two kilometers away from the Stemminger farm. The air is full of the crashing and smashing of falling trees. When he arrives at last and sees his home village, he needs all his strength to be able to bear what meets his eye. A deep brown furrow goes through the village like a wound, his parents' home is in ruins, and two other houses simply aren't there any more. They were washed down into the valley by a landslide. With his bare hands, Chrysanth is searching under the ruins for his mother, his siblings and his grandparents. He can hear their weakening cries, but he is alone and too weak himself. He leaves to get help from the valley, runs back, and goes on digging until he faints from exhaustion. Four of his brothers and sisters are saved, but for two more of them and his mother, the helicopters are too late. After this night of terror, the people of Gassen left their hamlet. Only one brother and sister didn't know where to go - they stayed until today. Hans and Ursche Masinger are now 86 and 91 years old, the last of Gassen. Today, no road leads into the ancient hamlet with the lonesome siblings, only a steep footpath and a disheveled cargo rope-way. For 35 years they have been waiting, always hoping that their neighbors would return one day. A vague hope - but not unfounded ... Just at the turn of the millennium, Gassen's long sleep suddenly ends. A new generation has grown up, the fear of another landslide is overcome. Gassen becomes the focus of manifold interests, including that of the Tourist Association. Touristical development should make an open air museum out of Gassen and its brother and sister. Chrysanth and Siegmund though, the former victims of the catastrophe and their children want to start farming again in their beautiful Gassen with its steep meadows. Siegmund only lacks the right woman for his complete happiness in Gassen. Christian, a hotel owner and mountain farmer's son from the valley, wants a bistro in Gassen as a branch of his hotel. He values his home-country's originality and personally brings his guests to Gassen so that they can marvel at the brother's and sister's simple life. Some of the guests then want to donate something to the two, because they mistake frugality with poorness. Will Gassen meet its fate as a museum, or will it come alive again?
- Three Synchronized Swimmer, on their way into a female dominated sport, organizing a show, working hard to participate at the championships. Follow their path on their way to fame.