Kurzfilm
Austrian Shorts
4 Shorts • 60min
DCP
15.03.2026, 15:15 Leokino Reservations possible from 25.02. • Talk with film guests (DE/EN) • FSK 16+
The latest short film gems from Austria and Tyrol.
This year’s film series includes: surreal road trips, fantastical sci-fi adventures, absurdly comic animated metamorphoses, and eerily enigmatic meta-mockumentaries.
Somnia
Magdalena Salner • AT 2026 • 28min • deOF+enUT • DCP • World premiere
“For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is, in every way, perfect.” - Aleister Crowley
Cinematography, Edit Magdalena Salner Music Manuel Baumer Cast Manuel Baumer, Magdalena Kätzler
The Woman whose Head was an Asteroid
Ganaël Dumreicher • AT/LX 2025 • 10min • deOF+enUT • DCP • Tyrol premiere
In the unexplored Wild West of our solar system, two young female astronauts embark on a mission to claim a newly discovered asteroid for their home country.
Writer Ganaël Dumreicher Cinematography Xavier Pawlowski Edit Ganaël Dumreicher Sound Design, Composer Ganaël Dumreicher
Challenges of a Solitary Mind
Astrid Rothaug • AT 2025 • 3min • ND • DCP • Tyrol premiere
A snail body on boots moves through everyday life—from office work to parties. But functioning in places where expectations are sitting at the table becomes an obstacle that ends up in the snail shell. Isolation and autonomy develop in this animation with clear black lines into a journey into new possibilities.
Animation Astrid Rothaug Musik Ken Richards Stimme Markus Lindenhofer, Margret Rothaug, Astrid Rothaug
Das Untier
Tove Stille • AT 2025 • 19min • deOF+enUT • DCP • Tyrol premiere
In the summer of 1974, an eerie creature was allegedly sighted on the western shore of Lake Neusiedl. Fifty years later, two young filmmakers take the still mysterious events as an opportunity to conduct their own research and make a film about them.
Writer Tove Stille Cinematography Michael Schindegger Edit Daniel Rutz Music Clara Frühstück, Dominik Mayr
