Arash T. Riahi

Kinders

Arash T. Riahi, Arman T. Riahi

The cinema documentary Kinders follows children and teenagers of different origins through their sometimes difficult and confusing, sometimes funny and bitter lives. They all take part in the music education program ((superar)), where these neglected and sometimes invisible children develop from outsiders into confident young people who learn about their hidden potentials through the power of music.

Everyday Rebellion

Arash T. Riahi, Arman T. Riahi

Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno

A documentary & cross-media project about the creativity of non-violent resistance and modern forms of civil disobedience.

For a Moment, Freedom

Arash T. Riahi

Navid Navid, Pourya Mahyari

Centers on a group of weary Middle Eastern refugees who have made their way to Turkey to apply for European visas.

Ein bisschen bleiben wir noch

Arash T. Riahi

Anna Fenderl, Viktor Krüger

Chechen refugee children, Oskar (8) and Lilli (13), who have been living in Austria for six years, are about to be deported along with their mother. However, her sudden attempted suicide results not only in the short-term suspension of their deportation but also in the forced separation of the family. The children’s hope that they will be reunited with their mother is nourished by their love for each other and challenges all bureaucratic obstacles with passion and poetry. A bittersweet odyssey about the many ways of perceiving the world around you in order to survive.

Exile Family Movie

Arash T. Riahi

A family’s story, typically crazy and exceptional at the same time. A film about home and exile, parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters and all the other relatives, close and distant, in an extended Persian family. Some of them emigrated to Europe or America, though the majority has stayed in Iran. Regardless of all the danger involved, they secretly meet after 20 years at a place which won’t raise suspicion among the Iranian authorities: Mecca. They come from America, Sweden, Austria and Iran to laugh, argue, cook and celebrate. This is accompanied by an excessive amount of hugging and kissing, and also a clash between Muslim and Western cultures.

Cinema Austria - Die ersten 112 Jahre

Frederick Baker

Michael Haneke, Ulrich Seidl

This historical and analytical documentary draws attention to the background of the roots of "New Austrian Cinema" and presents Austria as a film country to be taken seriously. The audience gets to see rare early works by well-known filmmakers as well as shots of landscapes that served as a source of inspiration and locations that have produced important Austrian films since the end of the 19th century.

Die Souvenirs des Herrn X

Arash T. Riahi

A filmmaker finds 2 boxes of Super-8 films of an unknown amateur at a flea market. He goes on an investigative journey to find this person and dives into the wonderful, obsessive universe of amateur film with its own rules, competitions and the passionate love for the moving images.

Mississippi

Arash T. Riahi

While on one hand Mississippi belongs to the tradition of avant-garde film, it mantains an ironic distance at the same time. What in the beginning of Mississippi appears to be a lavishly choreographed dialog between natural chaos and abstract structure is revealed at some point as an autonomous concert of forms.

Everything Will Not Be Fine

Arash T. Riahi

Svetlana El Labban, Rula Sham

The frankest of films from within a shelter for homeless women. Their stories usually combine domestic violence or acrimonious divorce, with mental fragility. Sonja is trying to make contact with her estranged children. Rula, is unsuccessfully trying to build a home with a new husband. This doc offers a unique window into their world. An evocative reminder of the fragility of human existence, and the value of a stable psyche.