Vienna, the former music capital of Europe, has become increasingly relevant again. With the wry approach that is typical of this city, the young underground music scene there romanticizes the raw and rabid.
Hedonist and nihilist at the same time, the young Viennese artists embody the opposite of self-optimization. They are unadjusted, eccentric characters – and they are filling concert halls not only in Austria, but also in Germany and Switzerland. VIENNA CALLING starts with the aim of being a music documentary. But increasingly, the true protagonist emerges as the city of Vienna itself. Like a flâneur, the camera saunters by day and night through the lanes, bars and casual joints of Vienna, taking diversions, becoming lost only to find its way again.
The strolling rhythm is instigated by the music, performed by Viennese artists and their famous charm or "Schmäh". Part documentary, part staged, interwoven with musical performances, the project gradually reveals itself as a mosaic of eccentricity. VIENNA CALLING digs deep into the catacombs of Viennese culture far from the mainstream. With its many performances and semi-fictional scenes, VIENNA CALLING is not a music documentary in the classic sense of the word, but rather a docu-musical.
The film provides a stage for Viennese artists like the Turkish-Austrian duo EsRAP, who are first generation immigrants, non-binary rap artist Kerosin95, radical feminist authors Stefanie Sargnagel and Lydia Haider, songwriters Voodoo Ju?rgens and Der Nino aus Wien, and many more. VIENNA CALLING is a poetic approximation to the underground scene of an old European metropolis that experiences the current cultural changes and conflicts of our time. Viennese artists take the room they need for their art in a city that becomes increasingly gentrified. VIENNA CALLING is an homage to daring artists, it is about the hardships of creating art and art's need for space and independence.
Diagonal 2023, AT | DOK.fest München 2023, DE | Beyond Borders 2023, GR | Unerhört Festival Hamburg 2023, DE | Nancy IFF 2023, FR | Filmtage Osnabrück 2023, DE | Cologne Film Festival 2023, DE | Szemrevaló - Sehenswert 2023, HU | Das Filmfest - Festival des deutschsprachigen Films 2023, CZ
Im MAI 2025
ein Film von Kerstin Polte
D 2024, 95 Minuten, DF mit Karl Markovics
Ein tragikomischer Episodenfilm, der Geschichten von Resilienz und Verbundenheit in einer Stadt am Rande des Abgrunds verwebt. Spannend, menschlich und berührend erzählt.
Votiv Kino Wien Mo 19. Mai, 20.00 Uhr
KIZ Royalkino Graz Mi, 14. Mai 20.40 Uhr
Volkskino Klagenfurt Mi 14. Mai, 20:15 Uhr
Cinematograph Innsbruck Mo 26. Mai, 20:30 Uhr
SONDERVERANSTALTUNG in Anwesenheit der Regisseurin:
Samstag 17. Mai, 19.30 Lichtspiele Lenzing
Kommende Spieltermine:
Dienstag 13. Mai:
Cineplexx Millenium City 19.30 /Cineplexx Leoben 18.00 / Cineplexx Weiz, 17.00 / Cineplexx Westfield SCS 18.00 / Cineplexx Wr. Neustadt 17.45 / Dieselkino Bruck/Gl. 19.30 / Dieselkino Lieboch 18.30 / Kino Freistadt 18.30 / Kino Achtmilimeter Mank 19.30
Mitttwoch 14. Mai:
Cineplexx Millenium City 18.30 / Coneplexx Auhof 18.00 / Apollo Stockerau 20.15 / Cinema Paradiso Baden 18.45 /Cineplexx Amstetten 17.45 / Cinepl. Salzburg Airport 18.00 / Cineplexx Villach 17.45 / Dieselkino Braunau 19.30 /
Diesekino Fohnsdorf 19.30 / Dieselkino Kapfenberg 19.30 / Dieselkino Leibnitz 19.30 / Dieselkino Oberwart 19.30 /
Dieselkino St. Johann 19.30 / Grand Movie Neunkirchen 19.00 / Stadtkino Horn 19.30 / Starmovie Liezen 17.45 / Starmovie Ried
17.30 / Starmovie Steyr 17.30
Donnerstag 15. Mai:
Apollo Stockerau 19.30 / Leokino Innsbruck 16.15 / Stadtkino Horn 19.30 / Starmovie Tulln 17.30
Freitag 16. Mai:
Kesselhauskino Krems 20.00 / Stadtkino Horn 19.30
Samstag 17. Mai:
Lichtspiele Lenzing 19.30 / Seewalchen Miniplex 19.30
Sonntag 18. Mai:
Leokino Innsbruck 16.15 / Seewalchen Miniplexx 19.30
Montag 19. Mai:
Cinema P. Baden 18.00 / Seewalchen Miniplex 18.30 / Cineplexx Wr. Neustadt 18.00
Dienstag 20. Mai:
Cinema P. St. Pölten 18.30 / Stadtkino Hallein 18.30
Mittwoch 21. Mai:
Cinema P. St. Pölten 18.30 / Seewalchen Miniplex 19.30
Donnerstag 22. Mai:
Cinema Paradiso Baden 18.45
27. Mai: Stadtkino Hallein
30. Mai: Kino Mank
Erlebt echte Kinomomente bei euch im Ort!
Eine Vielzahl ausgewählter Filme findet Ihr auf
DREI Nominierungen für DEAR BEAUTIFUL BELOVED
- Bester Dokumentarfilm
- Beste Montage
-Beste Tongestaltung
Jasmila Zbanic is attending the screenings