In conjunction with the festival week, the streaming portals Flimmit and KINO VOD CLUB will offer curated collections with different focuses and a digital ticket office from 11 June. The digital offer of Canale Diagonale will be complemented by exclusive online previews of the films in competition on the FM4 and Ö1 websites and by live broadcasts of the festival's events. This year, for the first time, the Diagonale awards ceremony will also be broadcast as an ad hoc show: la Great Diagonale Price Review, conceived and created by Sebastian Brauneis, can be seen on Sunday evening in the Kleine Zeitung livestream, on the FM4 website, in the TVthek (ORFIII) as well as broadcast at hours 00.10.
Cinema at home, festivals throughout Austria!
Some excerpts of the offers of Canale Diagonale can be found below, the entire selection of films will be announced during the program presentations on 27 May in Graz (10:30, Schubert cinema) and the 28 May in Vienna (9:00, Meissl & Damage). The program of Diagonal 21 will be available online from 28 May at 13:00.
Flimmit
Austrian cinema in all its glory: new movies, young talents, award winners. In a month of online festivals, upon subscription, the ORF streaming platform will show exclusive short film programs, a special on the internationally renowned director Jessica Hausner, to which the Diagonale dedicates the retrospective this year To person, as well as extensive tributes to the current winners of the Gran Diagonale Schauspielpreis, Christine Ostermayer (2021) and Ursula Strauss (2020). The highlights of the Diagonal will thus be made accessible for the first time on a larger scale in all of Austria, in all nine Federal States, with award-winning films such as Beginning 80 (R: Sabine Hiebler, Gerhard Ertl, AT 2011), Fly maybeetle! (R: Mirjam Unger, AT 2016), Hotel (R: Jessica Hausner, AT/DE 2004) as well as a current program of short films with works of all kinds.
With Comrade Tito, i inherit (R: Olga Kosanović, AT/DE 2021), Flimmit presents a short documentary recently awarded the renowned Nachwuchspreis International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. Participation in the competition of Diagonal 21 it is part of a section dedicated to the younger generations of Austrian cinema: Olga Kosanović will one day inherit her grandparents' home in Serbia. For part of the family who fled to Vienna during the war in Yugoslavia, accepting this legacy means more than an exchange of property. With grandparents, mother and brother, the director reflects between family idyll and gardening on the paralyzing weight of property and the localization of identity. The film is also present on Fimmit Magda rides a motorcycle at Lisa Hasenhütl (AT 2021), with Maya Unger in an exceptional cast: to impress her ex boyfriend, Magda takes her motorcycle license. But driving is harder for her than she thought. What if it were, broadly, to take the reins of one's life in hand?
Diagonale Collection in the Flimmit subscription: 11 June – 11 July
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CINEMA VOD CLUB
In line with the Diagonale program, recent national films such as VACUUM (AT/DE 2021) by Kristina Schranz celebrate their online premiere at KINO VOD CLUB, where they are available by subscription until 20 June. During his documentary, the director returns to her homeland, southern Burgenland, and films the first chapters of the pandemic: between spring and Christmas 2020, from the first lockdown – where everyone is alone, the kindergarten teachers disinfect the toys and the pastry chef is alone in the bakery - until the reopening in summer and the second lockdown.
One of the most touching US productions of recent years will also be available on KINO VOD CLUB: Give Me Liberty (US 2019) di Kirill Mikhanovsky (writer and director) and Alice Austen (screenwriter and producer). After its exclusive Austrian preview within the section In reference in Graz, the independent film, which debuted at Sundance Film Festival 2019, is available in streaming. Accompanying the projection, La Diagonale offers a virtual debate with the directors moderated by Alexander Horwath and Marius Hrdy. Alexander Horwath's invitation to speak at the Franz-Grabner-Preis awards ceremony gave rise to a “speech” in three parts, which also includes two special screenings: Give Me Liberty e Has Wolff von Amerongen committed bankruptcy crimes? (direction: Gerhard Friedl, AT/DE 2004). Both films will be presented in Graz in the section In reference.
The KINO VOD CLUB program is complemented by the festival's flagship films from past years and an exclusive educational program for young audiences.
Online previews: 11 – 20 June
Diagonale Collection on KINO VOD CLUB: 11 June – 11 July
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DAFilms
A program as a declaration of love for cinema and the eternal pursuit of happiness. A program like a journey through Austrian documentary cinema – through the night, the holidays and even the painful stories behind the images, available on the international streaming platform DAFilms.
Diagonal Collection on DAFilms: 8 – 22 June
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FM4
The day after their preview at the Diagonal in Graz, recent Austrian films celebrate their online premieres on the FM4 livestream: in the most powerful I Am The Tigress (AT/DE/US 2021), directors Philipp Fussenegger and Dino Osmanovic show us the 47-year-old Tischa in every aspect of her daily life – both as a fighter, bodybuilder, grandmother or girlfriend. The documentary will be available on the FM4 website on 10 June.
A double screening is scheduled for 11 June: the portrait of her parents at the time of the lockdown by Sophie Bösker, Jesus, Aliens! I think (AT 2021) (It's not just the yeast dough that's fermenting here!) and the new film by Sebastian Brauneis 1 Appointment in autumn (AT 2021), an elegant choral and beautifully melancholy story of people who fall in love and fall out of love. Marlene Hauser and Lukas Watzl are also part of the Brauneis ensemble: Hauser and Watzl will present both the opening ceremony of the festival at Diagonale21 on June 8 in Graz, sia la Big Diagonale price revue, which can also be seen on the FM4 website on 13 June.
Already available in streaming on 12 June is Another Coin for the Merry-Go-Round at Hannes Starz (AT 2021) with Valerie Pachner and David Öllerer (Voodoo Juergens): Anna loves her youth, his friends, the drug, parties and music. Enriched by the performances of Alicia Edelweiss or Bulbul, Starz's first feature film is a painful coming-of-age.
I Am The Tigress (R: Philipp Fussenegger, Dino Osmanovic, AT/DE/US 2021)
Thursday 10 June, ore 20.15.
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Jesus, Aliens! I think (R: Sophie Bösker, AT 2021)
1 Appointment in autumn (R: Sebastian Brauneis, AT 2021)
Friday 11 June, ore 20.15.
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Another Coin for the Merry-Go-Round (R: Hannes Starz, AT 2021)
Saturday 12 June, ore 20.15.
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S1
Before the festival: the 7 June, Ö1 will broadcast in livestream Carbon and Captivity by Oliver Ressler (AT/CH/NO 2020) e The Institute Alexander gods Glandien (AT 2020), two extraordinary films on very hot social issues: with a work divided into four chapters, Oliver Ressler turns around a site where the oil industry is testing a CO2 capture technology in collaboration with Norway. Carbon and Captivity it is an attempt to make the absurdity of the operation even more visible through cinema. Even the animated film The Institute (AT 2020) by Alexander Glandien chooses an idiosyncratic form to convey a potentially uncomfortable message: statements by transgender activist and natural scientist Brigitte Baptiste on Colombia's biodiversity and the importance of biodiversity, according to which if you want to live together peacefully, isolated species must be protected.
Carbon and Captivity (R: Oliver Ressler, AT/CH/NO 2020)
The Institute (R: Alexander Glandien, AT 2020)
Monday 7 June, ore 20.15.
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Big diagonal price review: Small newspaper, FM4 e ORF III
For the first time, the Diagonale awards ceremony will be held this year as a decentralized event. Accompanied by the musicians Mira Lu Kovacs and Land of Ooo, presenters Marlene Hauser and Lukas Watzl will accompany the audience during the show, which was organized by a team led by director Sebastian Brauneis: an evening that celebrates cinema, movies and television!
The most important film awards in Austria are awarded to the Diagonale, first of all the Diagonal Grand Prix of the Province of Styria for the Best Feature Film and the Best Documentary, as well as the Diagonal Innovative Cinema Award of the City of Graz.
Big diagonal price review
Sunday 13 June, ore 20.15.
kleinezeitung.at, fm4.orf.at, tvthek.orf.at (ORF III) and aired again at 00.10.