Filmfestival Filmacademy Vienna

April 2 - 5, 2009 at Viennese Metrokino
Award Ceremony: April 4, 8 p.m. at Metrokino

On the 1st April, the film festival of the Vienna Film Academy invites you to a special, 5 day long, cinematic experience in the Gartenbaukino and Metrokino. The Academy's students and their works take part in an international competition in different categories. A particular highlight in this 14th edition of the festival will be: With Erik Etchel's „Facetten“ and Alexander Stecher's „Das große Glück sozusagen“, two diploma films, that have been realized at the Vienna Film Academy, will be shown. In the course of the retrospective, which focuses on the school's history, a film team hunts for old film projects that have been created at the Academy, and furthermore, Götz Spielmann's „Fremdland“ will be shown. Needless to say, the already a cult Trashnight, in which film is allowed to be film only, from blurred to shaky, will also take place this year – loud, odd and fun. Good trash does not fit into a drawer, so it will be shown here. And last but not least,we did not forget about the parties, which will provide the possibility to get into touch and raise a glass with the film makers. After all, this festival should be a place of dialogue. A dialogue between the audience and film makers, between Austrian and international film.