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Borga wins the 2021 Max Ophüls Prize Borga by York-Fabian Raabe A selection of the most promising new productions from Germany, Austria and Switzerland has just been presented at this year's Max Ophüls Preis Festival (18-24 January) in Saarbrücken. The festival traditionally focuses on debut films by young filmmakers and offers them a platform for exposure. This year, the programme of feature, medium-length and short films in the categories of fiction titles as well as documentaries was made available online. Several juries were tasked with awarding a series of prizes for each selection. (...

film profile]) runs a small-scale trout farm in a secluded valley nestled in the Jura mountains (in the village of Seehof, to be specific). It’s exhausting work and the days feel never-ending. Judith is raising her daughter Milla on her own, a curious and creative child who’s full of life and who knows the nature around them better than anyone. Standing alongside the mother-daughter duo we find Gabriel, Judith’s devoted assistant who is looking to rebuild a life for himself following his release from prison. Despite leading what appear to be radically different lives, Judith, Milla and...

summary Vienna, with its stunning architecture and unforgettable streetscape, has long provided a backdrop for filmmakers. Visions of Vienna offers a close look at how directors such as Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, and Max Ophüls made use of the city, and how the nostalgic glorification of the Habsburg era can be seen as directly tied to crucial issues of modernity. Films set in Vienna, Alexandra Seibel shows, persistently articulate the experience of displacement due to emigration, changing gender relations and anti-feminism, class distinction, and anti-Semitism, themes that ...

Print There’s a moment in Béla Tarr’s 1988 film, “Damnation,” one of many excellent retrospective titles to emerge on virtual screens this year, that I’m tempted to describe as “very 2020.” We are in a mud-soaked Hungarian coal-mining town, awash in gloomy spirits and gloomier weather. Amid a torrential downpour, a broken man clambers up a slope and finds himself face to face with a large, growling dog. Rather than back away, the man drops down on all fours and growls right back, seething and snarling and eventually scaring the poor creature off. The dog is defeated; so is the...