Susanne Wuest

Sound of Falling (2025)

Four adolescent girls each spend their youth in the same farmhouse over the last century. Though separated by decades, resonances between their lives emerge: their desires and distress, secrets and truths, encounters with another's gaze and defiant gaze in ...

I'll Play Mother (2025)

After the death of their birth mother, two young children are placed in the care of prospective adopter parents, however, it's not long before the new family begin to question if something more sinister is at play. ...

Inedia (2024)

After a series of mysterious and debilitating allergic reactions to food, a young woman joins a radical community of people who claim to be nourished by light. ...

We Might As Well Be Dead (2022)

The high-rise building block near the forest is famous for its carefully curated community. As a dog disappears and her daughter refuses to leave the bathroom, security officer Anna faces an absurd battle against the fear, that slowly spreads among the res ...

Dear Darkness (2022)

The white, gray and black rooms of a common past and the separate present, the surrounding dreams and fantasies about one's own life and the lives of others: when Olga, Yvonne and Manon - three former best friends meet again after twenty years, the facades ...

Stanleyville (2021)

Office drone Maria Barbizan leads what looks like a meaningless life. She's lonely, and she doesn't really exist, at her job or within her family. One day, she does everything we've all dreamed of – she throws her purse and old life in the trash, and joi ...

Commitment Phobia (2021)

Like most singles of his generation, Tim has a "problem": he is apparently unable to have a relationship. But when he falls in love with his female reflection, Ghost, he suddenly finds himself on the other side of dating-hell. ...

18% Grey (2020)

When his wife leaves him, struggling Bulgarian photographer Zack sets out on a wild trip from London to Berlin. It is a journey that reveals the truth about his lost love - and ultimately to uncomfortable discoveries about himself. ...

Südpol (2019)

After many successful years, Hans loses his job overnight - and with it the stability and meaning in his life. Undecided what he wants to do with himself and his future, he drives through Vienna and ends up in the "Südpol", a pub on the other side of the ...

Man from Beirut (2019)

Out of the dark - this is true for this film both on the story level and in terms of production. A hard-boiled thriller with a high-concept twist set in Berlin, Man from Beirut follows a blind hitman, Momo, as he tries to survive after his emotions have co ...

My Brother’s Name Is Robert and He Is an Idiot (2019)

For teenage twins Robert and Elena, a weekend can seem endless yet still fly by. Time almost stands still while discussing philosophy, lying in a blissful cornfield near a remote gas station. They are in their own little world, a twin world of twin games a ...

Iceman (2017)

The Ötztal Alps, more than 5300 years ago. A Neolithic clan leader must avenge the massacre of his people and theft of his holy shrine. ...

Mademoiselle Paradis (2017)

18th century Vienna. Maria Theresia von Paradis, a gifted piano player and close friend of Mozart's, lost her eye-sight as a child. Desperate to cure their talented daughter, the Paradis entrust Maria to Dr. Mesmer, a forward-thinking-physician who gives h ...

Der Tod und das Mädchen - Van Leeuwens dritter Fall (2017)

Thanks to the latest DNA technology, Bruno van Leeuwen finally has a proof in his hands, with which the rapist of the then nine-year-old Vicky can be convicted. Piet Martens, the neighbor of the girl's family, was the culprit. But despite the new evidence, ...

Auf der anderen Seite ist das Gras viel Grüner (2017)

Kati has had her dream man at home for five years: attractive, loyal and professionally successful as a doctor. Unfortunately, "her" Felix now spends so much time at work in the hospital that Kati too often feels alone. When she met the good-looking, charm ...

Mann im Spagat - Pace, Cowboy, Pace (2017)

Cowboy has a vision. He wants to save the planet with his movement of Free Swingers. That's why he applies for a grant at The Central Agency, who then sends a representative named Fey of Sweden to approve Cowboy's proposal. She demands results and he de­c ...

Hey Bunny (2017)

A misanthropist ex-hacker is suspected of sabotaging a famous happiness-research facility. He is forced to prove his innocence and stumbles into a wild adventure, during which he involuntarily becomes an idealistic activist, has to deal with strange, possi ...

A Cure for Wellness (2017)

An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss Alps but soon suspects that the spa's miraculous treatments are not what they seem. ...

Secret of the Midwife (2016)

Marthe is a girl with a special gift: she can cure illnesses. But the time she lives in is marked by superstition and godliness. When Marthe can not help the burgrave's wife from her village, the girl has to flee. Your path crosses that of Ritter Christian ...

Elisa (2016)

'Elisa' portrays the claustrophobic and extremely painful relationship between nine year old Elisa and her mother. ...

The Huntingtans: Chewing Gum & Love Affairs (2016)

Reiff für die Insel - Katharina und der große Schatz (2015)

At the end of winter, there is a game of bowls in the north. The islanders are proud of their bowling ball, which Thies' grandfather found 60 years ago. Only Katharina believes the archaeologist Jens Jeschen, who wants to examine the sphere in a laboratory ...

The Shaman (2015)

In the dark year 2204, the world has seen 73 years of continuous war. The face of conflict has changed. People kill people but they now rely on giant, intelligent battle machines to fight. Mankind has re-discovered Shamanism and the Generals on both sides ...

Goodnight Mommy (2015)

In the heat of the summer lays a lonesome house in the countryside where nine year old twin brothers await their mother's return. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before and the children start to doubt whether this wom ...

Schwarzer Zucker (2014)

The Secret Society Of Fine Arts (2012)

The tusk from a mammoth and a whale skeleton are found in a grotesque mix of bricks and destruction - a zoological museum has been blown up. Images of the bisected building with all the scattered remains of stuffed animals are broadcast worldwide along wit ...

Kern (2012)

Two directors shoot a documentary about the controversial director and pugnacious actor Peter Kern. But he cannot be easily rammed into the classical form of a documentary. ...

The Hatch (2011)

On a stormy night aboard a small Irish trawler, fisherman Jeremiah and his son Ronan witness an unearthly glowing object fall to the sea. They decide to investigate and haul the object onboard. As they battle the elements to to get it on deck, Jeremiah los ...

The Edge (2011)

After studying in Paris, the young doctor François moves to Beauval, where single-family houses are lined up monotonously. He quickly becomes the focus of a group of young people, led by the charismatic Cédric and Matthieu, his assistant. The gang tries ...

Molly & Mops - Ein Mops kommt selten allein (2011)

With the money she earned from the pastry competition, Molly opens a small café with her very own specialties, which quickly spreads through the city. ...

Murder Sisters (2011)

After 20 years in prison, the former angel of death at Lainz hospital has been released, and she now works in the Prater amusement park, at a restaurant that specializes in roast knuckle of pork. Observing the guests and how they behave reawaken old emotio ...

Max Schmeling (2010)

Based on the true story of Max Schmeling. A national hero in the 1930's when he became World heavyweight champion. He lost favour with the Nazi regime when he lost to a black man, Joe Louis, and is sent to the front in the hope he will be killed in battle. ...

Carlos (2010)

The story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the OPEC headquarters in 1975 before being caught by the French police. ...

Germany ’09 – 13 Short Films About the State of the Nation (2009)

Thirteen German directors present short films exploring the state of their country. ...

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 ...

Antares (2004)

A deadly car crash sets off three parallel stories of women at crisis points, faltering behind the doors of the same, plain Vienna apartment block. ...

The Danube (2003)

As the ship Donau makes its final journey from Vienna to the Black Sea, a young man sworn to fulfill a dying woman's wish lures a reluctant captain into a new adventure. ...

My Russia (2003)

All sorts of trouble arise within a Viennese middle-class family, when they are visited by a bunch of Russian relatives. ...

Stanleyville (2021)

Office drone Maria Barbizan leads what looks like a meaningless life. She's lonely, and she doesn't really exist, at her job or within her family. One day, she does everything we've all dreamed of – she throws her purse and old life in the trash, and joi ...