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Peter Tscherkassky, fouding board member and long term chairman of sixpackfilm, was awarded the "Grand Decoration of Honor of the Province of Lower Austria" for his artistic contributions. Bravo, Peter, well deserved !

A feast for the eyes! Joerg Burger's visually stunning portrait of the Vienna Natural History Museum ARCHIVE OF THE FUTURE celebrates its German premiere at DOK.FEST Munich (May 1–12, 2024)

THE ELECTRIC KISS by Rainer Kohlberger received an honourable mention (‘...for an intense and provocative semiotic concept’) in the Film Sound category (composer: Jung An Tagen) at the Goldener Reiter competition at Filmfest Dresden. Congrats!

Der Großer Diagonale-Preis Spielfilm Gewinner Die ängstliche Verkehrsteilnehmerin ab 13. April 2024 nur im Metro KinoKulturhaus!

Pure bliss: Seven prizes for five different sixpack films at Diagonale 2024!
(pic: YARÊ by Sallar Othman.)

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Films by Josef Dabernig, Stefania Smolkina and Michael Heindl selected into the competition of Oberhausen Shortfilm Festival

With Josef Dabernig's Lacrimosa, Michael Heindl's Surface Seance and the debut film Avec la 4e Division Marocaine de Montagne by Stefania Smolkina, sixpackfilm is represented with three films in this year's International Competition of the Oberhausen Short Film Festival (May 1-6, 2024). In addition, we are presenting current works by Friedl vom Gröller, Lukas Marxt and Gabriele Mathes, among others, in a distributor program. ––>

Diagonale 2024 - a shower of prizes!

We are overwhelmed and enormously happy about our award winners of this year's Diagonale and congratulate them from the bottom of our hearts:

Martha Mechow for Losing Faith - Grand Diagonale Award for Feature Film
(by the way, to be shown at the Metro KinoKulturhaus in Vienna from April 13, 2024!)

Helin Çelik for ANQA - Grand Diagonale Award Documentary AND Award for Best Editing Documentary to Sara Fattahi

Sallar Othman for YARÊ - Award for Best Short Fiction Film

Bernhard Hetzenauer for Those Next to Us - Award for Best Short Documentary Film and KODAK AWARD

Simona Obholzer for DIN 18035 - Diagonale Award for Innovative Cinema

Nora Einwaller for ASCHE (D: Elena Wolff) - Award for Best Visual Design Category Feature Film

And of course, congratulations to all the other Diagonale 2024 award winners!

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