Cinema Austria, the first 112 Years

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Blind at Heart

Funeral for a Dog

Quo Vadis, Aida?

Mademoiselle Paradis

Paths

The Dead and the Living

On the Path

Reclaim Your Brain

Forever Never Anywhere

Falling

Fraulein

Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams

Slumming

Darwin's Nightmare

Visions of Europe

Free Radicals

State of the Nation

Lovely Rita

Northern Skirts

Shrill, Bright World

Sunspots

The Fruit of thy Womb

Somewhere Else

So I Sleepwalk in Broad Daylight

Nachtschwalben

Barbara Albert (born in Vienna) is an Austrian writer, film-producer and film-director.
She studied filmmaking at the Wiener Filmakademie. Her first film to become known to a larger audience was Nordrand, which describes the reality of life of Yugoslavian children in Vienna.
She heads the production company Coop 99 with Jessica Hausner, Antonin Svoboda and Martin Gschlacht, among others.
Her films were screened in Venice (Nordrand, 1999), Locarno (Free Radical, 2003) and Toronto (Mademoiselle Paradis, 2017).
As of 2024, she is a professor of directing at the Vienna Film Academy.
Her most recent project, the Sleeping Swans series, took the third place at 2024 Series Mania Seriesmakers section and won a €20,000 cash prize. The show was scripted by Ulrike Tony Vahl and produced by Martina Haubrich.

Barbara Albert

Barbara Albert

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