Films by Christine A. Maier

Austria, Germany 2022, 136 min
by Sabine Derflinger

"Let's not get upset, let's do something!" Alice Schwarzer, Germany's most famous women's rights activist.Alice Schwarzer has always been a polarising force. As a popular figure on TV, she has divided married couples watching from their sofas across the German-speaking world and encouraged women to emancipate themselves. The film reveals a side to Schwarzer that goes beyond the influential feminist and journalist we know from her autobiography. with Alice Schwarzer, Elisabet Badinter, Anne Zelen

Germany, Austria 2022, 96 min
by Claudia Müller

A complex, associative work that embraces contradictions and offers a visual take on the Nobel laureate’s technique of linguistic montage.Wunderkind, scandalous author, traitor to the fatherland, fury of the theater, feminist, fashion-lover, communist, pessimist, language terrorist, rebel, enfant terrible, nest fouler, brilliant, vulnerable artist, Nobel laureate. This film about Elfriede Jelinek, who in 2004 became the first Austrian author to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, focuses on