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The Academy at the Diagonale 2026

Diagonale
Festival of Austrian Film
18 – 23 March 2026
Graz
www.diagonale.at

Program(PDF)

The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna is pleased that numerous works by teachers, former teachers, students, and alumni are once again represented at the Diagonale, the festival of Austrian film, in Graz this year. Congratulations!

Feature film

ORF Special Preview:
C 2 Hot 2 Drive
Kurdwin Ayub
AT 2026, 53 min

Beautiful and Neat Room
Maria Petschnig
AT/US 2025, 118 min

Documentary

Pilije
Samira Fux
AT 2025, 77 min

Wellen Wende
Josephine Ahnelt
AT 2025, 73 min

Short / Feature film

Wenn die Schneeschmelze einsetzt
Marie Luise Lehner, Emil Huppenkothen
AT 2026, 11 min

Short / Documentary

Am Rande der Landebahn
Gabriel Tempea
AT/RO 2026, 19 min

An Afternoon in LA
Josephine Ahnelt
AT 2026, 14 min

Rumkugeln Roll Around
Sasha Pirker
AT 2026, 12 min

Innovative Shorts

For Getting Farewell
Jennifer Mattes
AT 2025, 32 min

The Valley where LOAB Lives
Georg Tiller
AT 2026, 21 min

The Window
Arash Lorestani
AT 2025, 6 min

De natura tenebrarum
Manuel Knapp
AT 2025, 14 min

Conference
Björn Kämmerer
AT 2025, 35mm, 9 min

Béni’s Noise
Valérie Pelet
AT/FR 2026, 44 min

Metameat
Sabine Marte
AT 2026, 17 min

Perseidas
Natalia del Mar Kašik
AT 2025, 10 min

Amature Enlightenment
Georg Petermichl
AT 2026, 20 min

Nursery Rhymes. (Holy) Water
Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński
AT/IT 2025, 4 min

Forum / Supporting program

FC Gloria Salon
Unter der Haut: Körper, Macht und Trauma
Gespräch mit den Regisseurinnen Magdalena Chmielewska (Teresas Körper) und Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński (Nursery Rhymes. (Holy) Water) sowie der Kunsthistorikerin Rose-Anne Gush (TU-Graz)
Sat 21 March, 15:30 h
Heimatsaal im Volkskundemuseum

Let’s talk about scripts! Diagonale Spezial
mit Maria Petschnig zu Beautiful and Neat Room
Sun 22 March, 14 h
Heimatsaal im Volkskundemuseum

Exhibition

Michael Gülzow
Das Tor zur Unwirklichkeit
Kunsthaus Graz
 20 February to 29 March