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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Cinema Regained

Overview of films

  • A Week with Kiarostami

    Yuji Mohara | 90' | Japan | -

    Documentary crew with Japanese director Yuji Mohara visited the set of Abbas Kiarostami’s The Wind Will Carry Us, that won the Special Jury Prize in…
  • Welt Spiegel Kino

    Gustav Deutsch | 90' | Austria | World premiere

    The only ones to succeed are film makers who combine a love for film with stubbornness, caution and dusty film images. Made up of three…
  • What Beat You Nothing

    Lyubov Arkus | 132' | Russia | International premiere

    Available on Festival Scope Pro from 26 January 9:00 CET to 14 February 9:00 CET
  • What Beat You Nothing

    Lyubov Arkus | 132' | Russia | International premiere

    An essay on Soviet and Russian history in the guise of a portrait of actress Alla Demidova, icon of the Russian-language stage and screen.
  • What’s Wrong With This Picture? 1

    Owen Land | 5' | USA | -

    A found, utilitarian object – the overtly moralising educational film How To Be a Good Citizen – is elevated to the status of ‘art’. The…
  • What’s Wrong With This Picture? 2

    Owen Land | 7' | USA | -

    As Land and his students were testing a new video camera, an elderly man began to talk to them about new technology. This impromptu conversation…
  • Where Russia Ends

    Oleksiy Radynski | 25' | Ukraine | None

    A road movie interrogating histories of settler colonialism and environmental destruction in Russia-occupied indigenous lands.
  • Who Killed Teddy Bear

    Joseph Cates | 94' | USA | No premiere

    Grim New York noir about a stalked woman. A descent into depravity that remains disturbing and shocking.
  • Wide Angle Saxon

    Owen Land | 22' | USA | -

    An interpretation of The Confessions of Saint Augustine, featuring an ordinary middle-aged man who undergoes a conversion experience while watching an experimental film. The film…
  • The Wide World of Mystery: House and the Brain

    Gloria Monty | 65' | USA | None

    A warlock’s curse traps Marianna Gallatin in a never-ending circle of seduction and despair.
  • Wien 17, Schumanngasse

    Hans Scheugl | 3' | Austria | -

    We will never know, how long this street really is, since rules and structures of reality are only gaugable by the rules and structures of…
  • William Eggleston’s Stranded in Canton

    William Eggleston, Robert Gordon | 77' | USA | None

    The famous photographer Eggleston started work in 1973 with the first consumer video camera. These recently edited images show an unadorned parade of