La Diagonale is pleased to announce the new artistic direction of the Austrian Film Festival. By unanimous decision of the General Assembly, Claudia Slanar and Dominik Kamalzadeh will succeed the duo Sebastian Höglinger and Peter Schernhuber as commercial and artistic directors from June 2023 and will be responsible for the festivals from 2024 al 2027.   "Claudia Slanar and Dominik Kamalzadeh intend the Diagonale 'as a place of artistic and political activity'. They convinced the General Assembly both in the submitted project and in the hearing with their intelligent and well thought-out vision for the film festival