The Academy at the Diagonale 2026
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