Knut.Ogris.Films

Austria 2008, 75 min
by Alois Hawlik

This documentary is about people. Not in the zoo. Not on New Guinea. Not anywhere else in the world, but in Austria. Or in Europe.We observe and tell a story. Stories about people who are going on the probably most exciting adventure of their lives – a new start. They are going back to the hopefully cosy surrounding which they have been ejected from because different reasons drove them into unemployment. Now they are coming back with a good education and the question is if they will stay on the

Austria 2009, 93 min
by Yoav Shamir

This film attempst to tackle contemporary anti-Semitism in different places around the world. It puts a face on the phenomenon, and shows how it is expressed in its most banal, recurring form. Statistics show a rise in anti-Semitism. By backtracking the day-to-day incidents with the participation of both victims and perpetrators, the desecration of synagogues and cemeteries, and physical and verbal attacks on Jews the film tries to capture the tension between how Jews perceive themselves an