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Jessica Hausner

Jessica HAUSNER (1972, Austria) studied Psychology and trained as a director at the Vienna Film Academy. In 1999, she founded the Vienna film production company coop99 with Barbara Albert, Antonin Svoboda and Martin Gschlacht. Her feature debut Lovely Rita was presented in the Un Certain Regard category at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. Besides a Venice premiere for Lourdes (2009), her subsequent feature films Hotel (2004) and Amour fou (2014) premiered in Cannes. Hausner’s fifth and most recent film, Little Joe, is her first English-language feature. It was presented in the main competition at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival and garnered the acting award for lead actress Emily Beecham.

Filmography

Geburtstag (1992, short), Anne (1992, short), Herr Mares (1992, short), Ich möchte sein manchmal ein Schmetterling (1993, short), Flora (1995, short), Inter-view (1999, short), Lovely Rita (2001), Hotel (2004), Toast (2006, short), Lourdes (2009), Amour fou (2014), Little Joe (2019)

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Jessica Hausner at IFFR

  • Inter-View

    Boy with tape recorder annoys girl. This film is good and scary.

    • main programme short

  • You Bet Your Life

    A feverish film about gambling addiction. A man sells his soul to the whims of the dice. And he takes his surroundings down with him. But first of all

    • Sturm und Drang

  • Little Joe

    Has science gone too far in this clinical bio-thriller about mysterious plants that can create permanent happiness?

    • Signatures

  • Amour fou

    German poet Heinrich von Kleist proposes committing a double suicide to his lover Henriette Vogel. He truly believes that this act will praise and com

    • Limelight

  • Hotel

    Fairy-tale suspense the Austrian way by the maker of Lovely Rita. Hotel Waldhaus is such an extremely respectable resort in the Alps, where no one can

    • Sturm und Drang

  • Lovely Rita

    Powerful début film by a young film-maker about a girl of fifteen who breaks down in the face of her surroundings and then hits back venomously. From

    • main programme features

  • Lourdes

    Miracles? Even in Lourdes people have their doubts, but that does not make the pilgrimage any less popular. A subtle study about hope, faith and the w

    • Spectrum

  • Hotel