International films with English subtitles | BURG KINO Wien | Vienna (2024)

Starting

t.b.a.

Emilia Pérez

Director

Jacques Audiard

Cast

Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz, Edgar Ramírez, Mark Ivanir, James Gerard, Eric Geynes, Agathe Bokja

Plot Outline

Rita, an underrated lawyer working for a large law firm more interested in getting criminals out of jail than bringing them to justice, is hired by the leader of a criminal organization.

Starting

Friday, 20. September 2024

Ripples of Life

Director

Wei Shujun

Cast

Huang Miyi, Yang Pingdao, Yang Zishan, Kang Chunlei, Liu Yang, Wang Jiajia, Liang Ming, Jin Yang, Nan Cui

Plot Outline

Follows a big star who brings a film crew to her remote hometown for a shoot, and while the production is afflicted by disagreements between the crew, a bored local restaurant owner finds excitement to be the stand-in for the star.

Starting

Friday, 9. August 2024

La chimera

Director

Alice Rohrwacher

Cast

Josh O'Connor, Carol Duarte, Alba Rohrwacher, Isabella Rossellini, Vincenzo Nemolato, Lou Roy-Lecollinet, Giuliano Mantovani, Gian Piero Capretto, Melchiorre Pala

Plot Outline

Just out of jail, crumpled English archaeologist Arthur reconnects with his wayward crew of tombaroli accomplices – a happy-go-lucky collective of itinerant grave-robbers who survive by looting Etruscan tombs and fencing the ancient treasures they dig up.

Starting

Friday, 2. August 2024

In Our Day

Director

Hong Sang-soo

Cast

Kim Minhee, Song Sunmi, Ki Joobong, Park Miso, Ha Seongguk

Plot Outline

Sangwon (Kim Minhee), an actress recently returned to South Korea, is temporarily staying with her friend, Jungsoo (Song Sunmi), and her cat, Us. Elsewhere in the city, the aging poet Uiju (Ki Joobong) lives alone, his cat having recently passed away. On this ordinary day, each of them has a visitor: Sangwon is visited by her cousin, Jisoo (Park Miso) and Uiju, by a young actor, Jaewon (Ha Seongguk). Each of them wants to learn about a career in the arts. But they also have bigger questions.

Starting

Friday, 14. June 2024

No Bears

Director

Jafar Panahi

Cast

Jafar Panahi, Naser Hashemi, Vahid Mobaser, Bakhtiyar Panjeei, Mina Kavani, Narges Delaram, Abdolreza Heydari, Amir Davar, Darya Alei

Plot Outline

Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who has been barred from leaving the country, arrives at a village on the Iran-Turkey border to supervise a film based on a real-life couple seeking passports to Europe being shot in Turkey, but both his stay and the production run into trouble.

About Dry Grasses

Director

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Cast

Deniz Celiloğlu, Merve Dizdar, Musab Ekici, Ece Bağcı, Erdem Şenocak, Yüksel Aksu, Münir Can Cindoruk, Onur Berk Arslanoğlu, Yıldırım Gücük

Plot Outline

A young art teacher hopes to be transfered to Istanbul after completing his mandatory duty in a remote village school in Anatolia. After accusations of innapropriate contact with a student surface, his hopes of escape fade and he descends further into an existential crisis.

Evil Does Not Exist

Director

Ryusuke Hamaguchi

Cast

Hitoshi Omika, Ryo Nishikawa, Ryuji Kosaka, Ayaka Shibutani, Hazuki Kikuchi, Hiroyuki Miura

Plot Outline

Takumi and his daughter Hana live in Mizubiki Village, close to Tokyo. One day, the village inhabitants become aware of a plan to build a camping site near Takumi's house offering city residents a comfortable "escape" to nature.

Only the River Flows

Director

Wei Shujun

Cast

Zhu Yilong, Zeng Meihuizi, Tianlai Hou, Linkai Tong, Zeng Qi, Wang Jianyu, Baisha Liu

Plot Outline

1990s, Banpo Town, rural China. A woman’s body is found by the river. Ma Zhe, Chief of the Criminal Police, heads up the murder investigation that leads to an obvious arrest. His superiors hurry to congratulate him, but several clues push Ma Zhe to delve deeper into the hidden behaviour of his fellow citizens.

Io Capitano

Director

Matteo Garrone

Cast

Seydou Sarr, Moustapha Fall, Issaka Sawadogo, Hichem Yacoubi, Doodou Sagna, Khady Sy, Venus Gueye, Cheick Oumar Diaw, Joe Lassana

Plot Outline

Longing for a brighter future, two Senegalese teenagers embark on a journey from West Africa to Italy. However, between their dreams and reality lies a labyrinth of checkpoints, the Sahara Desert, and the vast waters of the Mediterranean.

Animal

Director

Sofia Exarchou

Cast

Dimitra Vlagopoulou, Flomaria Papadaki, Ahilleas Hariskos, Chronis Barbarian, Voodoo Jürgens, Kristof Lamp

Plot Outline

Under the hot Greek sun, animators at an all-inclusive island resort prepare for the busy tourist season. Kalia is the group leader. Paper decorations, glossy costumes and dance shows fill the stage. As summer intensifies and the work pressure builds up, their nights become violent and Kalia's struggle is revealed in the darkness. But when the spotlights turn on again, the show must go on.

The Zone of Interest

Director

Jonathan Glazer

Cast

Sandra Hüller, Christian Friedel, Medusa Knopf, Daniel Holzberg, Ralph Herforth, Maximilian Beck, Sascha Maaz, Wolfgang Lampl, Johann Karthaus

Plot Outline

The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.

The Boy and the Heron

Director

Hayao Miyazaki

Cast

Soma Santoki, Masaki Suda, Ko Shibasaki, Aimyon, Yoshino Kimura, Takuya Kimura, Keiko Takesh*ta, Jun Fubuki, Sawako Agawa

Plot Outline

While the Second World War rages, the teenage Mahito, haunted by his mother's tragic death, is relocated from Tokyo to the serene rural home of his new stepmother Natsuko, a woman who bears a striking resemblance to the boy's mother. As he tries to adjust, this strange new world grows even stranger following the appearance of a persistent gray heron, who perplexes and bedevils Mahito, dubbing him the "long-awaited one."

The Quiet Girl

Director

Colm Bairéad

Cast

Catherine Clinch, Carrie Crowley, Andrew Bennett, Michael Patric, Kate Nic Chonaonaigh, Joan Sheehy, Tara Faughnan, Neans Nic Dhonncha, Eabha Ni Chonaola

Plot Outline

A quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with relatives for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one.

Perfect Days

Director

Wim Wenders

Cast

Koji Yakusho, Min Tanaka, Arisa Nakano, Tokio Emoto, Tomokazu Miura, Yumi Asô, Aoi Yamada, Sayuri Ishikawa

Plot Outline

Hirayama seems utterly content with his simple life as a cleaner of toilets in Tokyo. Outside of his very structured everyday routine he enjoys his passion for music and for books. And he loves trees and takes photos of them. A series of unexpected encounters gradually reveal more of his past.

Roter Himmel

Director

Christian Petzold

Cast

Thomas Schubert, Paula Beer, Langston Uibel, Enno Trebs, Matthias Brandt, Jennipher Antoni, Esther Esche, Assunta Hamm, Markus Schweiger

Plot Outline

A seaside vacation takes an unexpected turn when Leon and Felix show up at Felix's family's holiday home to discover Nadja, a mysterious woman, already there. As an ever-encroaching forest fire threatens their well-being, relationships are tested and romances are kindled.

Anatomy of a Fall

Director

Justine Triet

Cast

Sandra Hüller, Milo Machado-Graner, Swann Arlaud, Saadia Bentaïeb, Jehnny Beth, Samuel Theis, Antoine Reinartz, Camille Rutherford, Anne Rotger

Plot Outline

Sandra, Samuel and their visually impaired son Daniel have been living in a remote mountain location for the past year. When Samuel is found dead outside the house, an investigation for death in suspicious circ*mstances is launched. Amidst the uncertainty, Sandra is indicted: was it suicide or homicide? A year later Daniel attends his mother’s trial, a veritable dissection of his parents’ relationship.

Drôles de guerres

Director

Jean-Luc Godard

Cast

Jean-Paul Battaggia

Plot Outline

Fallen Leaves

Director

Aki Kaurismäki

Cast

Alma Pöysti, Jussi Vatanen, Anna Karjalainen, Kaisa Karjalainen, Janne Hyytiäinen, Martti Suosalo, Nuppu Koivu, Matti Onnismaa, Alina Tomnikov

Plot Outline

The film tells the story of Ansa, a supermarket shelf-stocker on a zero-hour contract, later a recyclable plastic sorter, and Holappa, a sandblaster, an alcoholic, later an ex-alcoholic, whose paths have accidentally crossed and who, despite adversity and misunderstandings, try to build some kind of relationship on the harsher side of the welfare state.

Green Border

Director

Agnieszka Holland

Cast

Jalal Altawil, Maja Ostaszewska, Behi Djanati Atai, Tomasz Włosok, Mohamad Al Rashi, Dalia Naous, Jaśmina Polak, Monika Frajczyk, Maciej Stuhr

Plot Outline

In the treacherous and swampy forests that make up the so called “green border” between Belarus and Poland, refugees from the Middle East and Africa trying to reach the European Union are trapped in a geopolitical crisis cynically engineered by Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko. In an attempt to provoke Europe, refugees are lured to the border by propaganda promising easy passage to the EU. Pawns in this hidden war, the lives of Julia, a newly minted activist who has given up her comfortable life, Jan, a young border guard, and a Syrian family intertwine.

Bis ans Ende der Nacht

Director

Christoph Hochhäusler

Cast

Thea Ehre, Timocin Ziegler, Michael Sideris, Rosa Enskat, Ioana Iacob, Aenne Schwarz, Sahin Eryilmaz, Andreas Grusinski, Jonny Hoff

Plot Outline

The undercover investigator Robert is supposed to win the trust of a criminal through a fictitious relationship with Leni. However, the feelings are not just a game. It is the spied criminal, of all people, who makes him confront his contradictory feelings…

Trenque Lauquen

Director

Laura Citarella

Cast

Laura Paredes, Ezequiel Pierri, Rafael Spregelburd, Elisa Carricajo, Juliana Muras, Verónica Llinás, Cecilia Rainero, Walter Jakob

Plot Outline

With the strange disappearance of Laura, two colleagues, her older boyfriend, Rafael, and Ezequiel, learn of their recent discoveries, which may help them locate her. However, the story is bigger and stranger than they could imagine.

Sick of Myself

Director

Kristoffer Borgli

Cast

Kristine Kujath Thorp, Eirik Sæther, Anders Danielsen Lie, Fanny Vaager, Fredrik Stenberg Ditlev-Simonsen, Sarah Francesca Brænne, Steinar Klouman Hallert, Andrea Bræin Hovig, Henrik Mestad

Plot Outline

Signe and Thomas are in an unhealthy, competitive relationship that takes a vicious turn when Thomas suddenly breaks through as a contemporary artist. In response, Signe makes a desperate attempt to regain her status by creating a new persona hell-bent on attracting attention and sympathy.

Broker

Director

Hirokazu Kore-eda

Cast

Song Kang-ho, Gang Dong-won, Bae Doona, IU, Lee Joo-young, Park Ji-yong, Lim Seung-soo, Lee Mu-saeng, Ryu Kyung-soo

Plot Outline

The film follows two brokers who sell orphaned infants, circumventing the bureaucracy of legal adoption, to affluent couples who can't have children of their own. After an infant's mother surprises the duo by returning to ensure her child finds a good home, the three embark on a journey to find the right couple, building an unlikely family of their own.

Saint Omer

Director

Alice Diop

Cast

Kayije Kagame, Guslagie Malanda, Aurélia Petit, Valérie Dréville, Xavier Maly, Robert Cantarella, Salimata Kamate, Thomas De Pourquery

Plot Outline

A novelist attends the trial of a woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter by abandoning her to the rising tide on a beach in northern France. But as the trial continues, her own family history, doubts, and fears about motherhood are steadily dislodged as the life story of the accused is gradually revealed.

The Worst Person in the World

Director

Joachim Trier

Cast

Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen Lie, Herbert Nordrum, Maria Grazia Di Meo, Hans Olav Brenner, Marianne Krogh, Helene Bjørnebye, Vidar Sandem, Anna Dworak

Plot Outline

Chronicles four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.

Navalny

Director

Daniel Roher

Plot Outline

Follows the man who survived an assassination attempt by poisoning with a lethal nerve agent in August 2020. During his months-long recovery he makes shocking discoveries about the attempt on his life and decides to return home.

A Hero

Director

Asghar Farhadi

Cast

Amir Jadidi, Mohsen Tanabandeh, Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy, Sahar Goldoust, Maryam Shahdaie

Plot Outline

Rahim is in prison because of a debt he was unable to repay. During a two-day leave, he tries to convince his creditor to withdraw his complaint against the payment of part of the sum. But things don't go as planned. Is he truly a hero?

Introduction

Director

Hong Sang-soo

Cast

Shin Seok-ho, Park Mi-so, Kim Young-ho, Ki Joo-bong, Seo Young-hwa, Kim Min-hee, Cho Yun-hee, Ye Ji-won, Ha Seong-guk

Plot Outline

Youngho goes to see his father who is tending to a famous patient. He surprises his girlfriend, Juwon, in Berlin where she is studying fashion design. He goes to a seaside hotel to meet his mother and brings his friend Jeongsoo with him. In each instance, he anticipates an important conversation. But sometimes a shared look, or a shared smoke, can mean as much as anything we could say to those close tous.

Quo Vadis, Aida?

Director

Jasmila Žbanić

Cast

Jasna Đuričić, Izudin Bajrović, Boris Ler, Dino Bajrović, Johan Heldenbergh, Raymond Thiry, Boris Isaković, Emir Hadžihafizbegović, Reinout Bussemaker

Plot Outline

Bosnia, July 1995. Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp. As an insider to the negotiations Aida has access to crucial information that she needs to interpret. What is at the horizon for her family and people - rescue or death? Which move should she take?

I am Greta

Director

Nathan Grossman

Cast

Greta Thunberg, Svante Thunberg, António Guterres, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Alexander van der Bellen, Emmanuel Macron, Pope Francis

Plot Outline

Greta Thunberg, a 15-year-old student in Sweden, started a school strike for the climate as her question for adults was, if you don’t care about my future on earth, why should I care about my future in school? Within months, her strike evolved into a global movement as the quiet teenage girl on the autism spectrum becomes a world-famous activist.

Berlin Alexanderplatz

Director

Burhan Qurbani

Cast

Welket Bungué, Jella Haase, Albrecht Schuch, Lukhanyo Bele, Joachim Król, Nils Verkooijen, Martin Wuttke

Plot Outline

A modern adaptation of one of the greatest twentieth-century novels.

Honeyland

Director

Ljubomir Stefanov, Tamara Kotevska

Cast

Hatidzhe Muratova, Nazife Muratova, Hussein Sam, Ljutvie Sam

Plot Outline

When nomadic beekeepers break Honeyland’s basic rule (take half of the honey, but leave half to the bees), the last female beehunter in Europe must save the bees and restore natural balance.

Parasite (Gisaengchung)

Director

Bong Joon-ho

Cast

Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-shik, Park So-dam, Lee Jung-eun, Chang Hyae-jin, Park Myung-hoon, Jung Ji-so

Plot Outline

All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.

Systemsprenger

Director

Nora Fingscheidt

Cast

Helena Zengel, Albrecht Schuch, Gabriela Maria Schmeide, Lisa Hagmeister, Maryam Zaree, Melanie Straub, Matthias Brenner, Tedros Teclebrhan, Gisa Flake

Plot Outline

The wild and energetic journey of 9-year-old girl Benni through all possible stations of German Child Proctective Services.

Cold War (Zimna Wojna)

Director

Paweł Pawlikowski

Cast

Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza, Cédric Kahn, Jeanne Balibar, Adam Woronowicz, Adam Ferency, Adam Szyszkowski

Plot Outline

A man and a woman meet in the ruins of post-war Poland. With vastly different backgrounds and temperaments, they are fatefully mismatched and yet condemned to each other.

Roma

Director

Alfonso Cuarón

Cast

Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey, Carlos Peralta, Marco Graf, Daniela Demesa, Nancy García García, Verónica García, Andy Cortés

Plot Outline

Cleo, a young domestic worker for a family in the middle-class neighborhood of Roma in Mexico City. Delivering an artful love letter to the women who raised him, Cuarón draws on his own childhood to create a vivid and emotional portrait of domestic strife and social hierarchy amidst political turmoil of the 1970s.

Todos lo saben (Everybody Knows)

Director

Asghar Farhadi

Cast

Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Ricardo Darín, Bárbara Lennie, Inma Cuesta, Jaime Lorente Lopez, Eduard Fernández, Sergio Castellanos, Elvira Mínguez

Plot Outline

Laura, a Spanish woman living in Buenos Aires, returns to her hometown outside Madrid with her Argentinian husband and children. However, the trip is upset by unexpected events that bring secrets into the open.

120 battements par minute (BPM)

Director

Robin Campillo

Cast

Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, Adèle Haenel, Antoine Reinartz, Felix Maritaud, Ariel Borenstein, Aloïse Sauvage, Mehdi Touré, Simon Bourgade

Plot Outline

Paris, in the early 1990s: a group of young activists is desperately tied to finding the cure against an unknown lethal disease. They target the pharmaceutical labs that are retaining potential cures, and multiply direct actions, with the hope of saving their lives as well as the ones of future generations.

The Young Karl Marx

Director

Raoul Peck

Cast

August Diehl, Stefan Konarske, Vicky Krieps , Olivier Gourmet , Hannah Steele , Alexander Scheer

Plot Outline

The early years of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Jenny Marx, between Paris, Brussells and London.