Veronika Franz

In the heat of the summer lays a lonesome house in the countryside where nine year old twin brothers await their mother’s return. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before and the children start to doubt whether this woman is actually who she says she is.

Dir. Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz · With Elias Schwarz, Lukas Schwarz, Susanne Wuest

When a father is forced to abruptly depart for work, he leaves his children, Aidan and Mia, at their holiday home in the care of his new girlfriend, Grace. Isolated and alone, a blizzard traps them inside the lodge as terrifying events summon specters from Grace's dark past.

Dir. Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz · With Riley Keough, Jaeden Martell, Lia McHugh

A nurse from Ukraine searches for a better life in the West, while an unemployed security guard from Austria heads East for the same reason. Both are looking for work, a new beginning, an existence, struggling to believe in themselves, to find a meaning in life...

Dir. Ulrich Seidl · With Ekateryna Rak, Paul Hofmann, Michael Thomas

On the beaches of Kenya they’re known as "Sugar Mamas" —European women who seek out African boys selling love to earn a living. Teresa, a 50-year-old Austrian and mother of a daughter entering puberty, travels to this vacation paradise, moving from beach to beach.

Dir. Ulrich Seidl · With Margarethe Tiesel, Peter Kazungu, Inge Maux

In 1750 Austria, a deeply religious woman named Agnes has just married her beloved, but her mind and heart soon grow heavy as her life becomes a long list of chores and expectations. Day after day, she is increasingly trapped in a murky and lonely path leading to evil thoughts, until the possibility of committing a shocking act of violence seems like the only way out of her inner prison.

Dir. Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz · With Anja Plaschg, Maria Hofstätter, David Scheid

Vignettes of the lives of several residents of a Vienna suburb during a heat wave.

Dir. Ulrich Seidl · With Maria Hofstätter, Alfred Mrva, Franziska Weisz

For Anna Maria, paradise lies with Jesus, and she devotes her time to door-to-door missionary work. One day after years of absence, her husband, an Egyptian Muslim confined to a wheelchair, comes home—and soon prayers are replaced by fighting.

Dir. Ulrich Seidl · With Maria Hofstätter, Nabil Saleh, Natalija Baranova

Her mother in Kenya, 13-year-old Melanie spends her summer vacation at a strict diet camp set in the Austrian countryside. Between workouts and nutrition classes, pillow fights and first cigarettes, she falls in love with a doctor 40 years her senior.

Dir. Ulrich Seidl · With Melanie Lenz, Joseph Lorenz, Verena Lehbauer