Directed by ERNST GOSSNER

At his sister’s wedding, Andreas (18) from Tirol, discovers the opposite sex for the first time in his life. Her name is Francesca, a 17-year-old Italian girl. But the young love has no time to blossom. The very next day Andreas is sent off to new front lines in the mountains. Italy has declared war against Austria.

Directed by DARIUSZ GAJEWSKI

One fine day, young Waldemar decides not to spend the summer in Poland but rather in the west. His neighbor, Mr. Kuka, gives him traveling tips. He advises Waldemar on how to act in the west and explains to him why he shouldn’t come back wearing a T-shirt saying “How can I help you?”.

Directed by GOETZ SPIELMANN

Autumn. The countryside near Vienna. A farmhouse, squalid and dilapidated. An old man lives there, by himself. Fields surround the farm, and a forest. Not far from there, a house belonging to a policeman and his wife. A new home, pristine, nothing looks out of place.

Directed by SABINE DERFLINGER

Evi works as a waitress at a ski resort during the winter season. When she’s at work her older sister watches Evi’s 6 year-old daughter Paula. Working an exhausting job and being a mother doesn’t leave Evi with much time to herself: during the day she has restaurant duty in a big hotel, in the afternoon she’s a beermaid at the skilift, and the evenings are spent at the disco “Downhill” as a bartender.

Directed by SANDRA NETTELBECK

Martha is the brilliant, obsessive, but charming head chef at a French restaurant in Hamburg, and despite creating daily culinary masterpieces for her guests, her days are rather monotonous. The introverted Martha does not have a life outside the restaurant.

Directed by JESSICA HAUSNER

Rita is an outsider. People at school laugh at her large breasts, teachers think she’s insolent, her parents want to keep her down. All without avail – bad weeds grow tall. This is the story of Rita’s stubborn attempt to escape her loneliness and wrest affection from another human being, in the form of her 13 year-old neighbor, Fexi.

Directed by BAKHTIAR KHUDOJNAZAROV

LUNA PAPA is a romantic fairy tale about a young, Tajik girl named Mamlakat. In a clear, moonlit night, she is seduced by a stranger and subsequently discovers that she is pregnant. In order to find the offender and acquit herself of this dishonor, she sets out on an incredible, tragicomic journey through the wilderness of Central Asia, accompanied by her father and her mentally disabled brother.

Directed by DANIEL SCHMID

This is the story of Irina, a beautiful, young callgirl, who stumbles into a fairy-tale alpine country and starts believing in it unconditionally. A shady lawyer hooks her up with a growing clientele of businessmen, politicians, military personnel and media reps.

Directed by CHRISTIAN FROSCH

On a remote country estate, nine very different people participate in a two-week self-help seminar to overcome an array of very different problems: marriage crises, career failures, age-induced depression, commitment phobia. Dr. Roman Romero, the charismatic therapist, and his aides, confront the patients with their (perceived) real problems.