Ursula Strauss

After being the lone survivor of a gruesome plane crash, Manu (Resetaritis) returns to a small Austrian town and successfully rebuilds her life. Five years after the near-fatal accident, Manu is surrounded by family members, friends, husband and a lovely young daughter. But for the sake of destiny - or chance - Manu's good luck disappears. (Kino International)

Four friends are reunited at a funeral. (Kino International)

A pimp's employee named Alex and Tamara, one of his ukrainian prostitutes, get involved with each other. Since Alex cannot stand to see his new girlfriend as a prostitute they try to break out from the brothel and to finance their start into a new life they try to rob a bank. The consequences are fatal.

Vienna in the 1930s. Victor Kaufmann, the son of a wealthy cosmopolitan Jewish couple, works in his father's art gallery. His best friend whom he has known since childhood and from whom he is inseparable, is Rudi Smekal. Victor's girlfriend, the attractive and vibrant Lena, is also a friend of Rudi's. In a moment of exuberance Victor shows his friend a well-kept family secret: a drawing by Michelangelo that was believed lost. (www.berlinale.de)

Director Gotz Spielmann follows his acclaimed thriller Revanche with this visually captivating character study, in which a family reunion at a mountainside inn lays bare old wounds and reveals long-held secrets. (tiff.net)

A nameless man receives phone calls intended for someone else and ends up pretending to be that person, while a female character rebels against her author.

Students at a quantum academy attempt to create a collective consciousness, only to discover that they themselves are part of a greater experiment. (imdb)

A family, blessed with richness and power, is desperately seeking for a liver for their father, who wants to hand down his wealth to the one who gets the organ. (imdb)

Monika is in her late forties and works as a curator in Frankfurt. When Monika gets caught up in a raid near the train station, she makes the acquaintance of Josef, a Congolese businessman. Josef is a diamond dealer and is looking for people to invest in a mine in Congo; meanwhile he keeps himself afloat with various import/export ventures. Their coincidental encounter leads to a passionate love affair between two people whose lives could hardly be more different. (Komplizen Film)

About a pathologist with a complicated life. His problems with himself, his colleagues and patients who come down to him, dead or alive. (imdb)

Dramatizes the life of Habsburg Empress Maria Theresa, focusing on her rise to power, political reforms, and personal challenges in 18th-century Europe. (imdb)

Angelika Schnell is a chaotic policewoman who trusts her inner voice more than facts, which leads to curious conclusions as well as discussions with her medical-examiner ex-husband Stefan Schnell and her two team-assistants, Franitschek and Maja. (imdb)

A soap-operatic mini-series about the history of Hotel Sacher in Vienna. It starts with the takeover by Anna Sacher after her husband Eduard dies at age 59. Most of the time, someone high or low in society seems to be kissing (or more) in one of the chambres séparées. (imdb)

A policeman gets into a spiral of events in which assault, extortion, and murder are proven means. (imdb)