Barbara Pichler bids adieu after seven years as director of the Diagonale Film Festival, which had a record 27,300 visitors, closing on March 22 in Graz. Displaying openness and consistency in...

SUPERWELT, Karl Markovics’s second film as director, will open this year’s Diagonale on March 17. Between working as a cashier and running the household, routine creeps into the life of Gabi...

Johannes Holzhausen’s new documentary film The Great Museum portrays one of the preeminent museums of the world: the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien (KHM). The film undertakes an extended journey...

Screenings of the award-winning films on Sunday evening brought the 16th edition of Diagonale Film Festival in Graz to a close with a record number of visitors in attendance. Between the 12th...

Grand Diagonale Prize for Best Austrian Feature Film (€ 21.000) Tizza Covi und Rainer Frimmel for Der Glanz des Tages (The Shine of Day) Grand Diagonale Prize for Best Austrian Documentary...

Following its premiere at the Berlinale competition, it is Ulrich Seidl’s PARADISE: Hope that will kick off this year’s Diagonale festival. Seidl does not only stand as one of the most prominent...

Six festival days, 131 films and videos in 120 screenings (among them 39 world premieres and 15 Austrian premieres), with 100 attending directors: From the March 20 to 25 of, Diagonale Film Festival,...

Grand Diagonale Prize for Best Austrian Feature Film (€ 21.000) Sebastian Meise for Stillleben (Still Life) Grand Diagonale Prize for Best Austrian Documentary Film (€ 21.000) Dariusz Kowalski...

This year Diagonale's  international tribute will be dedicated to the Israeli filmmaker and video artist Avi Mograbi. As a decidedly political filmmaker, the issue of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...

A highlight of this year’s festival will be a tribute to filmmaker Ferry Radax in association with Radio Ö1. Radax, who in 2012 celebrates his 80th birthday, is one of the most internationally...