News Archive 2014

OstLicht Exhibition

Of stills taken from Ulrich Seidl's films ("Stills 1998-2014")

For the first time, the Gallery OstLicht dedicates a show to Ulrich Seidl’s photographic works. The exhibition includes selected stills taken from the late Nineties until today: Models, 1998, Hundstage (Dog Days), 2001, Brüder, lasst uns lustig sein (Brothers, Let Us Be Merry), 2006, Import Export, 2007, the Paradies Trilogy Liebe, Glaube, Hoffnung (Paradise. Love, Faith, Hope), 2012 and Im Keller (In the Basement), 2014. Opening: 2014-12-03, 19h In the presence of Ulrich Seidl Laudatio: Franz Schuh Ulrich Seidl Stills 1998-2014 04.12.2014-14.02.2015 OstLicht. Galerie für Fotografie Absberggasse 27 1100 Wien

GOODNIGHT MOMMY wins Ljubljana Film Fest Kingfisher Award

We are very pleased to announce that "Goodnight Mommy", the feature film debut of Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, was honored with the Kingfisher Award at the Ljubljana Film Fest. Congratulations!

GOODNIGHT MOMMY wins the Fipresci award

After two award wins at the "Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonie" we are happy to announce that "Goodnight Mommy", the feature film debut of Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala was honoured with the Fipresci Award in the section "International Competition" at the "Thessaloniki International Film Festival". We congratulate our winners!

Goodnight Mommy two awards in Sitges

"Méliès d’Argent" for the Best Feature Length Film and "Critics' Special Mention" for GOODNIGHT MOMMY (Ich seh Ich seh) by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala at the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, the number one fantasy film festival in the world. Joy! The next stops in October are going to be at the Filmfest in Prag, as well as Zagreb Film Festival and Hofer Filmtage.

71. Filmfestival of Venice

Worldpremiere of Veronika Franz and Severin Fialas featurefiilm debut "Goodnight Mommy"

We are proud and happy that the two latest Seidl-Film productions will celebrate their world premiere at the 71st Venice Film Festival: Alongside"In the Basement", the new film essay by Ulrich Seidl which will be shown "Out of Competion", "Goodnight Mommy" , the debut film of Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala has been invited to compete at "Orizzonti Competition". The film takes place in the heat of a summer in the Austrian countryside. Ten-year-old twins wait for their mother in an isolated house. When she comes back, her head wrapped in bandages after plastic surgery, nothing is as it was before. Starting to doubt that this woman is actually their mother, the boys are determined to find the truth — by any means. "A horror film? An author film? Our film "Ich seh Ich seh" is meant to be both. We love physical cinema – cinema that overpowers you. But at the same time, with our story we are trying to ask questions that for us are existential. Questions that deal with life realities, questions about education and the balance of power in families, identity and above all about the monstrous within people. We wanted to make a film that says something about our lives — and that at the same time chills us to the bones." Veronika Franz und Severin Fiala

In the Basement

In the Basement Ulrich Seidl's new film essay will have its world premiere at this year's 71st edition of the Venice Film Festival 2014

In the Basement Ulrich Seidl's new film essay will have its world premiere at this year's 71st edition of the We are proud and happy that the two latest Seidl-Film productions will celebrate their world premiere at the 71st Venice Film Festival: "In the Basement", the new film essay by Ulrich Seidl will be shown Out of Competion, and "Ich seh Ich seh", the debut film by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala has been invited to compete at "Orizzonti Competition". "In the Basement" marks the return of Ulrich Seidl to the documentary form. The film is about people and basements and what people do in their basements. The film is about obsessions, about brass-band music and opera arias, fitness and fascism about sexuality and shooting and much more. It is a film essay which delves into the underground of the Austrian soul. “The basement in Austria is a place of free time and the private sphere. Many Austrians spend more time in the basement of their home than in their living room, which often is only for show. In the basement they actually indulge their needs, their hobbies, passions and obsessions. But in our unconscious , the basement is also a place of darkness, a place of fear, a place of human abysses.“ Ulrich Seidl Credits Austria 2014, 81 min Director: Ulrich Seidl / Concept: Ulrich Seidl, Veronika Franz / Camera: Martin Gschlacht / Additional Camera: Hans Selikovsky / Sound: Ekkehart Baumung / Editor: Christoph Brunner / Production manager: Louis Oellerer, Max Linder / Line producer: Konstantin Seitz / Cast: Fritz Lang, Alfreda Klebinger, Manfred Ellinger, Inge Ellinger, Josef Ochs, Alessa Duchek, Gerald Duchek, Cora Kitty, Peter Vokurek, Walter Holzer