Jessica Hausner

Concrete Whisper (2024)

A medieval saga and the surreal game in a chat group gradually give shape to a creature that makes its tracks through the big city. As the plot develops, the urban environment increasingly gains significance, with social and political themes influencing th ...

Club Zero (2023)

Miss Novak joins the staff of an international boarding school to teach a conscious eating class and forms a strong bond with five students that eventually takes a dangerous turn. ...

In Heaven's Meadow (2020)

Maya suddenly wakes up in the middle of the night and finds herself at "Am Himmel" in Vienna. She is not dead, she is in Vienna. It is night. She checks out her body. What is she missing? ...

Little Joe (2019)

Alice, a single mother who is more dedicated to her work as a genetic engineer than to her teenage son Joe, develops a new variety of flower that is supposed to have the ability to make its owner happy thanks to its special chemical properties. ...

Glitch Hotel (2017)

A new intriguing narration through a mixture of data-mosh and clean cuts by compression and editing. It is an experiment in appropriation that investigates the contingencies of exploiting the formal effects. ...

Tomcat (2016)

Andreas and Stefan lead a happy and passionate life: Together with their beloved tomcat Moses, they live in a beautiful old house in Vienna's vineyards. They work as a musician and as a scheduler in the same orchestra and they love their large circle of fr ...

Amour Fou (2014)

Heinrich wishes to conquer death through love, and when he meets Henriette, the wife of a business acquaintance, she expresses interest in a suicide pact when she learns she has a terminal illness. ...

Lourdes (2009)

In order to escape her isolation, wheelchair-bound Christine makes a life changing journey to Lourdes, the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees Mountains. ...

Reclaim Your Brain (2007)

Frustrated, because he is forced to produce bad TV-shows, a manager of a TV-station, enters the station and manipulates the ratings, to initiate a TV-revolution. ...

Forever Never Anywhere (2007)

History professor Baisch, his depressive and tablet-addicted brother-in-law Anzengruber and a manic cabaret artist have a car accident on a remote country road after a party. Wedged between two trees they get stuck, doors and windows can no longer be opene ...

Toast (2006)

This video installation pays unnervingly close attention to domestic routine, portraying a young woman in the kitchen methodically preparing food. This quotidian ritual slowly comes to feel like a sort of obsessive sublimation of more obscure psychic energ ...

The Mozart Minute (2006)

Twenty-eight well-known filmmakers living and working in Austria were invited by WIENER MOZARTJAHR 2006, to produce associative miniatures on Mozart. Requirement: they had to be one-minute artistic short films. The directors come from a whole range of diff ...

You Bet Your Life (2005)

A compulsive gambler is forced to take a chance with his own life ...

Sleeper (2005)

Johannes, a new assistant at the university, is asked to provide reports on an Algerian colleague - who is suspected of being a sleeper. He refuses, but the seed of doubt has been planted. A fragile friendship which is overshadowed by professional and emot ...

Hotel (2004)

When Irene takes a position at a hotel deep in the woods of the Austrian Alps, she soon discovers the girl she replaced vanished without a trace. ...

Kaltfront (2003)

When breaking into an electronics warehouse, a member of a young gang is injured and left behind by his companions. ...

Lovely Rita (2001)

Rita is an outcast teenager in suburban Austria, misunderstood both at school, where she's disdained by classmates, and at home, where her staunchly religious mother and temperamental father bemoan her inability to fit in with their comfortable bourgeois l ...

Fremde (2000)

The life of a young woman caught between a routine, not necessarily dreary everyday life with a child and a seemingly exciting job at the VIP counter at the airport. ...

Inter-View (1999)

A movie about the possibility to be happy—or about the impossibility of the same. A young man interviews people on the street. He asks them about the substance of their lives in order to find answers for himself, but he cannot find any. Then, a young w ...

Funny Games (1997)

Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement. ...

Ägypten (1997)

A look at sign language and the deaf persons who use it to communicate ...

Flora (1995)

The heroine of the title grows up. Slights, dance school, a cinema of glances, of tender moments, of trivial pop songs. A cinema which takes time, makes observations and which continuously finds or invents opposite picture sequences for loneliness and brea ...

Kilometer 123,5 (1994)

A cheerless petrol station buffet. A woman creates for herself her own dream world, far away. A stranger only wants some petrol. ...

I Want to Be a Butterfly Sometimes (1993)

A 1993 short film written and directed by Jessica Hausner. The film screened at Diagonale: Festival of Austrian Film in 2020. ...

Ruths Geburtstag (1992)

Mr. Mares (1992)

Anne (1992)

Cinema Austria, the first 112 Years (2020)

This historical and analytical documentary draws attention to the background of the roots of "New Austrian Cinema" and presents Austria as a film country to be taken seriously. The audience gets to see rare early works by well-known filmmakers as well as ...