WED 3 SEPT
The Muse ART GALLERY
269 Portobello Road, W11 1LR




German & Austrian Films


6 pm

Jenseits der Fassade
Eyup Kus  5 min (experimental) U
Experience 'Beyond the Facade', Eyup Kuş' experimental film, where his atmospheric music merges with visuals, delivering a poignant commentary on the climate crisis and the fluidity of human existence.

TACET -止
NONOKA MATSUO / TOMI KATZ EXPERIMENTAL 11 mins 12 Germany
Time slips by quietly—days folding into each other, sometimes without shape or direction.
Caught between circumstances and systems, everyday life feels beyond my control.
As an immigrant, navigating public procedures becomes an encounter with a faceless, immovable force. I feel stuck—unable to move freely, speak freely. The frustration grows.
People around me keep going, living, rushing ahead. I remain still.
That silence, that pause—I called it tacet.

Nachts, wenn die Hunde bellen
Lena Imboden Austria 28 mins(Fiktion) 12
Jakov is raising his 9-year-old daughter Matilda on his own while working at a construction site. Their loving relationship is put to the test when he is laid off and is plagued by fears of financial instability. Matilda senses this pressure and seeks his comfort. While Jakov fears he is failing as a father, Matilda is terrified of losing her only caregiver. Both are increasingly overwhelmed by the situation. Desperate, Jakov seeks help. Based on a true story

Mein Papa fährt Ferarri
Philip Ivancsics 8 min (fiction). 12
Twelve-year-old Nico is ashamed of his dad. But not in the way that children are just embarrassed by their parents, rather because his dad is already 70 years old. This is exactly what he tries to keep secret from his school friend Luisa, who apparently has the much cooler dad. On Luisa's birthday, Nico finds himself in a precarious situation with surprising consequences.

B203
Manuel Rodriguez. Fiction, drama, coming - of - age. Germany. 13 mins. 12
On the way to meeting his biological father, Sebastian and his adoptive father Richard begin to reevaluate their own relationship.

Die Sänger/ the singers
Fabian Rausch & Zorah Berghammer | Austria 17 mins (fiction) 12
A family from the city stumbles into a countryside inn. A young man is forced to sing. Meanwhile, the family's child is a silent observer. She sees the ambiguity of the world surrounding her and how beauty and ugliness coexist. Based on a narrative by Ivan Turgenev.

PHASE 4
Rosanna Stark & Sabine Hodi. Comedy. 17 mins. 12A. Austria
The overworked Florentina tries to get her love life back on track with a romantic weekend with her partner Henrik, although she is repeatedly, and surprisingly disturbed by the strange hostess Ramona.

Ineinanderfallen
Vivian Bausch Austria 6 mins (Fiction) 12
In the kitchen, everything is boiling, and so is Ernstl, but he has to keep functioning. After his secret lover dies, Ernstl is confronted by the widow, Lara, about their hidden affair. Despite the anger and pain they feel, Ernstl and Lara unexpectedly come together in a moment of physical closeness.

Betongeflüster
Jannis Lenz 13 min 12(Documentary, Experimental)
Through a medieval saga and surrealistic game played within a chat group, a mysterious creature gradually takes shape and begins to leave its mark on the streets of the bustling city.

Kingdom of Animals (Reich der Tiere)
Thadeusz Tischbein. Art/Experimental. 16 mins. 12 Germany
Grand tour to Germany's National monuments: Thadeusz Tischbein has been on a journey to Germany’s largest National monuments, some of the heaviest chunks in the nation's digestive tract, so to speak. And there he came across all sorts of animals, which do not accidentally come into conversation with creatures and animals from legends and myths. After all, the Brothers Grimm were also involved in creating the fairy tale of the ancient nation called Germany.

Moskitos
Susana Ojeda 16  min (hybrid, fiction, documentary) 12A
In 'Moskitos,' the relentless carriers of diseases such as Yellow Fever and Zika, Aedes and Anopheles mosquitoes, take center stage. Amidst Vienna's landmarks, a ritual ceremony initiates a spiritual and healing journey fracturing anthropocentric colonial views. It unveils a future where other species flourish and the earth reclaims her territory. A visual manifesto of an archaeology of a Capitalist Civilisation that failed. Moskitos though, survived!

Söder.
Raoul Bruck  27  min 12A (fiction)
Kerstin hires a hitman named Soeder on the dark net to get rid of her useless husband during a weekend trip to the lake. Unbeknownst to her, the mysterious young man is nothing but a cocky online imposter with dark fantasies. But when the mail-order gun that he ordered does not arrive in time, he is forced to improvise.

Night of Passage
Reza Rasouli  20 min (fiction) 12A
Close to the Austrian border, three friends from Tehran are dropped off by their smuggler. They must spend the night in the Slovakian forest, until the next truck picks them up. Despite the difficult journey, the prospect of a new future keeps them moving forward. During the night, the group faces a dilemma that leads them to a point of no return.

NINE DAYS IN AUGUST
By ELLA KNORZ. DRAMA / CIRCLE FORMAT.
17 MIN 04 SEC. 15 Germany.
18-year-old Lea has to deal with an abortion during her summer holidays.

Between the Lines
Niklas Pollmann. 20 mins. Germany. Drama. Good 15
Two young people in a Viennese club night: When both arrive together at the subway station, their acquaintance is still too fragile to know how they will spend the rest of the night – and who they actually are.

Skin on Skin
Simon Schneckenburger. Drama 30 mins. Germany 18
Two men displaced in the hell of the German meat industry. Something lies between them. Something makes them dream again.

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