Viennale- Vienna International Film Festival

Click on Thumbnail for Large Image

Vienna, Austria October 21 - November 03, 2010
Call for Entry Deadline: July 30, 2010
Festival Data:
- Established: 1960
- Genre: General
- Attendance: 92100
- Media Attendance: 500
- Accredited Industry Attendance: 200
- Total Number of Films Screened: 289
- Total Screenings: 320
- Accreditations: ECFF, FIAPF, FIPRESCI
- Retrospective
- Online Festival
- Has Panels
Festival Website:
www.viennale.at
Festival Description:

VIENNALE endeavors to make cinema approachable in all its variety, its affluence of languages, history, and forms of narration, as well as its aesthetic and political perspectives.

VIENNALE's intention is to spread the fan of this world's images and sounds as far, freely and openly as possible. The VIENNALE, as well as every single one of the works shown in its context, are an offer, an invitation, a proposition. It is the individual work of art that constitutes both the smallest and the largest entitiy of the festival.

VIENNALE does not seek orientation along the business, the daily fashions and fortuities, but along the inherent matter itself. Most ideally, the festival - just as any good film - is but the idea of one such matter.

VIENNALE is noncompetitive and is acknowledged by the International Federation of Film Producers Associations.

VIENNALE's main program presents films of all genres and formats as well as carefully selected video works (films/videos are presented in original version with English and/or German subtitles). VIENNALE predominately shows feature and documentary films, as well as selected short films. Videos are only shown in a special selection.

The VIENNALE’s festival program mainly consists of films/videos participating by invitation.
Film Submissions:
- Accepts direct submissions
- Call for Entry: http:/ / www.viennale.at/ en/ frame.shtml?835
Email: office(at)viennale.at

Phone: (43) 1 5265947

Fax: (43) 1 5234172

Mailing Address: Siebensterngasse 2
Vienna A-1070
Austria

Email:	office(at)viennale.at
Phone:	(43) 1 5265947
Fax:	(43) 1 5234172
Mailing Address:	Siebensterngasse 2 Vienna A-1070 Austria

NOV 06, 2007 08:38PM FFW Festival Editor writes:

Award Winners for the 2007 Viennale- Vienna International Film Festival

The Vienna Film Prize: "Brandstätter"(Rule of Law)
Directed By: Susanne Brandstätter, A 2006)

Jury decision: “Brandstätter’s film is a plea for justice instead of revenge and for tolerance towards dissenters and, on top of that, extremely exciting from the first to the last minute.”

Honorary Mention:

An honorary mention was awarded to the film "Almfilm" by Gundula Daxecker. The jury would further like to suggest that this prize be awarded in the future in the categories feature film as well as documentary film.

Members of this year's jury: Helga Bergmann, Susanne Michel, Olga Neuwirth, Linda Stift und Ralph Wieser.

The Standard VIENNALE Readers' Jury Award 2007 goes to:

"Rubljovka − Straße zur Glückseligkeit"
Directed By: Irene Langemann

Excerpt from the jury decision:
"Among twenty contributions to choose from, one documentary jewel stood out, which the Readers’ Jury soon agreed on as the worthy prizewinner. The filmmaker has made a road movie of quite a different kind, entertaining and staged with subtle humor."

Jury: Mario Döberl, Ülkü Ocak, Philipp Schlögl, Bernhard Studlar and Philip Waldner

The Winner 2007

The FIPRESCI PRIZE: "Shotgun Stories"
Directed By: Jeff Nichols (USA 2007)

Excerpt from the jury decision:
"For its mixture of realism and poetry and for giving a fresh visual style and haunting atmosphere to a classical American story."
report